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(JTA) — Paul Reichmann, a Canadian real estate developer and philanthropist who led the family’s Olympia & York company, has died.
Reichmann, whose family business developed the Canary Wharf business district in London and New York’s World Financial Center, died...
(JTA) – Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Poland’s first post-Communist prime minister, was being remembered by the Jewish world for fighting anti-Semitism and as a friend of Israel.
Mazowiecki, a former journalist, died Monday in Warsaw. He was 86.
“We are deeply saddened...
(JTA) — Musician and guitarist Lou Reed, the frontman for the band Velvet Underground as well as a solo artist, has died.
Reed, who was born to a Jewish family, died Sunday at 71. A cause of death was not...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Rabbi Avraham Zuckerman, founder of the Bnei Akiva yeshiva network and a leader in the national-religious movement in Israel, has died.
Zuckerman, whose Bnei Akiva network included some 60 institutions, died Saturday night. He was 98.
A...
LISELOTTE LEVY WEIL, a Holocaust survivor, who was forced to flee Nazi Germany in 1939, but who became a well-known figure in New Orleans, died October 11 at her home. She was 92.
Weil was an active volunteer at Touro...
LEOPOLD “LEE” BREEN, a former owner of Breen Furniture and a retired manufacturer’s representative, died Tuesday, October 8, following a long illness. A native and lifelong resident of New Orleans, he was 93.
Breen had recently been living at Lambeth...
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TEL AVIV (JTA) — Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the Israeli sage who founded the Sephardic Orthodox Shas political party and exercised major influence on Jewish law, has died.
Yosef died Monday at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem....
Rabbi Haim Ovadia Yosef, the former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, passed away on Monday, October 7, 2013, with his family and close colleagues by his side, including President Shimon Peres. He was 93.
A noted Talmudic scholar and leading halachic...
(Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) – World-renowned Holocaust historian professor Israel Gutman, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Auschwitz concentration camp and one of the founders of the Yad Vashem International Institute for Holocaust Research, passed away in...
JONATHAN FRANK SILVERMAN, an information technology network administrator, succumbed to a longtime illness on Tuesday, October 1. He was 33.
A native of River Ridge, Silverman was a graduate of Ridgewood High School who attended ITI Technical College in Baton...
