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DOROTHY “DOTSY” (née SAMUELSON) FISHER, widowed last June year by her husband of 63 years, Jack Fisher, died at home early on May 9. She was 84. Fisher was a housewife and community volunteer for much of her life, but...
SYLVIA REINER SHUSHAN, who became a saleswoman for Sak’s Fifth Avenue in New Orleans’ Canal Place department store mall, died Wednesday, May 1 after a lengthy illness.
Natives of New Orleans, she and her sister Dorothy “Dot” Reiner, famously married...
DAVID BERNSTEIN, a man who transformed a small tire firm into the largest independent tire company in the state of Louisiana, died on Monday, April 29, 2013 at the age of 92.
A native of Decatur, AL, Bernstein moved to...
GLORIA COHEN, a piano instructor and the wife of the late Rabbi Bertram Samuel Cohen, died in Birchwood Place, an assisted living facility in Skokie, IL on Sunday evening, April 28. She was 78 .
Cohen was noted for always...
Blanche Gewirtz, the rebetzin of former Congregation Beth Israel Rabbi Jonah Gewirtz, died of complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), commonly called Lou Gehrig’s disease. The funeral was held April 28 in MD. She is survived by her husband and...
KEVIN LOUIS LAMPERT, a native and lifelong resident of New Orleans who specialized in collections for businesses since he was 19, died unexpectedly on April 20. Lampert, who was predeceased by his wife of 16 years, Cheri, was 59. He...
ALHADEFF, JAKE, 98, of Maitland, FL, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, April 16, 2013. Born to Solomon and Estrea Benator Alhadeff, of blessed memory, in Atlanta, GA in 1915, he was the oldest of six children. Jake lived in Atlanta...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Carmen Weinstein, the head of Egypt’s Jewish community, has died. Weinstein died Saturday of “natural causes,” the French news agency AFP quoted a community member as saying. She was 84.
For nearly 20 years, Weinstein headed a...
(JTA) — Tens of thousands joined the funeral procession of Rabbi Yaakov Yosef, the eldest son of the Shas party’s spiritual leader, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef.
Yaakov Yosef died last Friday at 66, succumbing after a long battle with cancer. He...
LILLIAN LEBED “BUBBIE” GLAZER, a tireless supporter of the arts who was president of the Louis A. and Lillian L. Glazer Family Foundation, died peacefully at home on Saturday, April 13 at the age of 92.
A life master bridge...
