{"id":20325,"date":"2014-12-05T17:04:59","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T23:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=20325"},"modified":"2014-12-07T17:04:36","modified_gmt":"2014-12-07T23:04:36","slug":"furniture-representative-jack-pollack-dies-after-brief-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/furniture-representative-jack-pollack-dies-after-brief-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"Furniture representative Jack Pollack dies after brief illness"},"content":{"rendered":"

JACK POLLACK, a local\u00a0furniture industry representative, died Thursday, December 5 at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston after a brief battle with leukemia. He was 65.<\/p>\n

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Pollack was an advisor to B’nai B’rith Youth Organization and moved to New Orleans in 1975 to follow his pursuit of being a Jewish professional social worker. He soon met and married the first of his two wives in 1977 and raised his two daughters.<\/p>\n

Later, he became a furniture manufacturer representative and traveled throughout his regional territory and abroad.<\/p>\n

A lover of New Orleans culture, Pollack lived for Mardi Gras and especially the annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. He was a music enthusiast who never let a good time get away if he could help it. He also kept his love for his native Pittsburgh alive and was an avid supporter of the Pittsburgh Steelers.<\/p>\n

Pollack was an inveterate photographer and combined his love of New Orleans food and culture with recording history through his photographic lens. He was a member of both Congregation Gates\u00a0of Prayer in Metairie and the Northshore Jewish Congregation (NJC), which was closer to his residence.<\/p>\n

In recent years Pollack was a much beloved religious school teacher at NJC and was very active at the school.<\/p>\n

He is survived by his daughters, Jennifer (Andrew) Friedberg and Lisa (Jim) Walsh and three grandchildren; his sister Teri Cox; and two former wives, the mother of his daughters, Peggy Blum, and Anita Sabiston Pollack.<\/p>\n

A visitation was held today, Sunday, December 8, at Congregation Gates of Prayer, 4000 West Esplanade, beginning at 1:30 p.m. Funeral services conducted by Rabbi Robert Loewy began at 2:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

Burial followed immediately at Hebrew Rest Cemetery #3 (corner of Pelopidas and Frenchman Streets).<\/p>\n

A reception and minyan was held at Gates of Prayer at 5:00 p.m.<\/p>\n

In lieu of flowers, donations in his honor may be sent to either Congregation Gates of Prayer or Northshore Jewish Congregation, 1403 N. Causeway Blvd., Mandeville, LA 70471.<\/p>\n

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