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SHIRLEY SHEIN HILLER, 92, a mother and longtime member of Touro Synagogue, died Tuesday, January 27.
Hiller, a homemaker and mother was born in Providence, RI and graduated from Brown University, before moving to New Orleans in 1970, when she...
(JTA) — David Landau, a British-born Israeli journalist who held top positions at several English-language publications, including JTA, has died.
Landau died of brain cancer in Jerusalem on Tuesday. He was 67.
Landau, who made aliyah in 1970, served part...
By RON KAMPEAS
(JTA) — Mario Cuomo, a three-term New York governor, was the rare politician who appealed to the Jewish tent’s opposite poles.
A strident liberal with a nuanced understanding of the sense...
NEW YORK (JTA) — Luise Rainer, the first actress to win back-to-back Academy Awards, died on Tuesday at her London home. She was 104.
The daughter of a middle-class Jewish family that later escaped Nazi Germany, Rainer was born in...
BEN FRANK FREEDMAN, a professor of art for many years at West Virginia University, passed away peacefully at his home in Morgantown, WV on Friday, Dec. 26, 2014. He was 84.
Freedman was the last of the famous “Freedman Triplets,”...
RYAN DAVID REAVES, a student who had battled disease for most of his young life, died in his adopted home of Houston on December 24, 2014 at Houston Methodist Hospital. He was 23 and just two days shy...
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Rabbi Leonard Beerman, famed for his unremitting pacifism and fight against injustice, has died.Beerman, who grew the Leo Baeck Temple from a small community of 28 members when he arrived in 1949...
By TOM TUGEND
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — As a pathbreaking thinker, innovator and activist, Rabbi Harold Schulweis’ role extended far beyond his base as the spiritual leader of his Los Angeles-area congregation.
“Harold Schulweis was widely regarded as the most...
(JTA) — Photographer Phil Stern, known for his candid shots of Hollywood stars and jazz musicians, has died.Stern died Saturday in Los Angeles after an extended hospital stay. He was 95.Stern worked as a...
JULIUS “JULES” SOBEL, a retired specialist for the General Services Administration and a retired secretary for the Tulane University School of Medicine, died peacefully at Touro Infirmary surrounded by family after a brief illness on December 13, 2014. He was...
