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MELBA LAW STEEG, a community leader and civic volunteer, died Wednesday, December 25, 2013 at her New Orleans residence. She was 90.
Steeg was a true patron of the arts and fundraiser, serving on the boards of many non-profit organizations...
MAURICE SAMUEL KANSAS, a New Orleans native who was a real estate developer and founding retailer of Brothers Clothing Store and Polo Carpets, was memorialized in ceremonies on, Fri., Dec. 27, at his home. Kansas, who died on Fri., Dec....
By AMI EDEN
NEW YORK (JTA) — In the coming days, many eulogies will attempt to capture the magnitude of the loss suffered this week by the Jewish community. Really, though, all you need are eight words: Edgar Bronfman was...
NEW YORK (JTA) — Edgar Bronfman, the billionaire former beverage magnate and leading Jewish philanthropist, died Saturday at the age of 84.
As the longtime president of the World Jewish Congress, Bronfman fought for Jewish rights worldwide and led the...
NEW YORK (JTA) — Alvin Goldstein, a pioneering pornographer who published Screw magazine and spent decades dodging obscenity convictions, has died.
Goldstein, whose Milky Way production company owned the long-running cable TV show “Midnight Blue,” died Thursday in Brooklyn....
JOANN FLOM GREENBERG, an artist, died Wednesday morning December 18, 2013 at the age of 85. Greenberg’s work in pottery was especially prized and received critical acclaims from art enthusiasts the world over.
Greenberg was a lover of all the...
PEARL JACOBS DAUBE, a volunteer at the National World War II Museum and in the Jewish community, died in the early morning hours on Tuesday, December 17 at Ochsner Foundation Hospital. She was 89.
She was a volunteer for Temple...
Milton H. Cohen, a retired attorney, died on Wednesday, December 11. He was 87.
Cohen was a lifelong resident of New Orleans and graduated from Isidore Newman School in 1943, prior to serving in the U. S. Navy during World...
ALBERT I. HENDLER, M.D., a general radiologist certified in diagnostic roentgenology, died on, Sunday, December 8 at his River Ridge residence. He was 86. Hendler was a member of Congregation Beth Israel.
He was predeceased by his wife, Rea Silverstein...
HELEN SLIPMAN KOHLMAN, a distinguished lawyer and ad hoc judge, died in her apartment on December 4, 2013. She was 83. A native-born and life-long New Orleanian, Kohlman had a distinguished 45-year law career, practicing with her husband Herman Kohlman...
