Tuesday, May 13th 2025 |
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TOM OELSNER, M.D., a pioneer in nephrology at Touro Infirmary, died peacefully at his Metairie home on May 3, 2025. He was 88 years old.
Born in Breslau, Germany in 1937, Tom’s parents and sister eescaped with him to England...
SYLVIA STERNE, a native New Orleanian, former state and City of New Orleans Health Department worker and tireless volunteer, died in her second home in Seattle, WA. surrounded by her family on April 28. 2025. She was 91.
New Orleans...
Dorothy “Dot” Goldman Levin, a dedicated teacher for many decades, passed away on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. She was 97.
A New Orleans native, she graduated from Isidore Newman School and Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. After graduation from college,...
By PHILISSA CRAMER
(JTA) — Jill Sobule, the Jewish pop singer whose hit “I Kissed A Girl” topped charts in the 1990s, has died at 66.
The cause of death was a fire at her home outside Minneapolis, her publicist...
By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL
(JTA) — David Horowitz, a former ‘60s radical turned right-wing firebrand who decried what he called the “the efforts of the radical left and its Islamist allies to destroy American values,” died Tuesday after a lengthy battle with...
SANDRA “SANDIE” CHASS MORRIS GOLDSMITH, a former resident of New Orleans, died on Saturday, April 5, 2025.
She was the president of the B’Not Shalom Group and a member of the New Orleans Chapter of Hadassah.
She was predeceased by...
SYLVIA STONE SHUSAN, passed away on April 6, 2025. She was 107.
She married Shepard Shushan in 1948, a marriage that lasted for 14 years until his death, making her a widow at the age of 42. Though she was...
MARTIN STEPHEN BURING, a retired businessman, died on Wednesday, April 2. He was 74.
Buring lived life to the fullest and always on his own terms. He never concerned himself with consequences—what mattered most to him...
ANITA LAMBERT WATSKY, a dedicated registered nurse, died on Sunday, March 22. She was 82.
A native of Reserve, LA., she graduated from the Hotel Dieu School of Nursing before beginning a career at Charity Hospital and various medical offices...
By JACKIE HAJDENBERG
(New York Jewish Week) — Rabbi Eliyahu Fink, a prominent and empathetic voice on contemporary issues facing Jews in the Orthodox world, died early Friday morning in a car accident on the Garden State Parkway in New...
