{"id":88485,"date":"2025-06-27T02:44:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T07:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=88485"},"modified":"2025-06-27T02:44:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T07:44:00","slug":"russian-emigre-sofya-goldvarg-rites-held","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/russian-emigre-sofya-goldvarg-rites-held\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian emigre Sofya Goldvarg rites held"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SOFYA GOLDVARG, part of a wave of Jewish emigres from the Soviet Union to move to New Orleans, passed away peacefully at home on June 22, 2025 surrounded by her loved ones. She was 89.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_88494\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/sofya-goldvarg-new-orleans-la-obituary.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88494\" class=\"wp-image-88494 size-thumbnail lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/sofya-goldvarg-new-orleans-la-obituary-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/sofya-goldvarg-new-orleans-la-obituary-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/sofya-goldvarg-new-orleans-la-obituary-350x350.jpg 350w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 150px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 150\/150;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88494\" class=\"wp-image-88494 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/sofya-goldvarg-new-orleans-la-obituary-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/sofya-goldvarg-new-orleans-la-obituary-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/sofya-goldvarg-new-orleans-la-obituary-350x350.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-88494\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SOFYA GOLDVARG<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Born in Belarus, she spent the first half of her life in Moscow, and then immigrated to the United States as a refugee with her family in 1980.<\/p>\n<p>Sofya will be remembered for her unwavering strength and resilience as she overcame adversity and hardship throughout so much of her life. Her family and loved ones will deeply miss her fierce yet gentle nature and insistence on keeping everyone who entered her home well-fed.<\/p>\n<p>She is survived by her sister, Yelena, her three children Natasha, Inna, and Paul, five grandchildren and one great-grandchild.<\/p>\n<p>A funeral service was held on Tuesday, June 24, 2025, at 1:00pm at Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral Home.&nbsp; Congregation Gates of Prayer Rabbi David Gerber officiated. Interment followed in Metairie Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Gates of Prayer Synagogue.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Russian%20emigre%20Sofya%20Goldvarg%20rites%20held\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[8790,8795,8788,14709],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88496,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88485\/revisions\/88496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}