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By PHILISSA CRAMER
(JTA) — Richard Belzer wasn’t just a hard-boiled Jew who rose from a troubled childhood to the top of his field — he played one on TV.
Belzer, who died Sunday at 78, was a familiar face because of his longstanding roles on “Homicide: Life on the Streets,” “Law and Order: SVU” and other TV shows. In each of those series, he played a presumptively Jewish detective...
THOMAS B. LEMANN, a lifelong New Orleanian, died on Sunday, February 12, 2023, at the age of 97. He graduated from Metairie Park Country Day School in 1943. During World War II he served as a codebreaker in the Pacific Theater for the Signal Corps of the U.S. Army. After his honorable discharge from the army, he traveled to Boston to attend Harvard College. He...
DAVID ORECK, the founder and highly visible spokesman for the Oreck Corporation, the famous vacuum cleaner company, died on Wednesday, Feb. 15, at his home in Mississippi. He was 99.
Born in Duluth, Minnesota, Oreck seemed determined from his earliest days to take on the world. He was a small, red-headed boy who constantly got into fights with bigger kids. It was this scrappiness that was ultimately the very trait...
JEAN “SWEETIE” HIRSCH FRANK passed away peacefully at home at the age of 99. Cherished wife, mother, grandmother, aunt, cousin, and friend to everyone she encountered in her full century of life, she was a beautiful, vivacious, caring person with an impeccable memory and a smile that filled the room.
A native New Orleanian, she graduated from Newcomb College and later married her childhood sweetheart and the love of her...
By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL
(JTA) — Songwriter Burt Bacharach, who with his longtime lyricist Hal David turned out a string of hits in the 1960s and ’70s — including “Alfie” and “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head” — died on Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 94.
Bacharach and David, both Jewish New Yorkers, also wrote a host of songs that made Dionne Warwick a megastar, such as...
(NEW YORK) – Rabbi Mark S. Golub, the founder, president and host of Jewish Broadcasting Service (JBS), a national Jewish TV network broadcasting over cable and live streaming services died on January 31 with family surrounding him. He was 77.
Beginning as Shalom TV, Golub’s dream of a national Jewish news and entertainment service went national in 2006. It featured Jewish films, many in Hebrew with English subtitles, children’s shows...
By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL
(JTA) — Ira “Bob” Born, the son of a Russian Jewish immigrant who founded the company that makes Peeps candies, has died. He was 98.
Born was the former president of Just Born Quality Confections, the 100-year-old family-owned candy company in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, that makes Mike and Ikes, jelly beans and Goldenberg Peanut Chews, but is probably best known for the marshmallow treats that are staples in...
By GABE FRIEDMAN
(JTA) — Barbara Walters, the iconic newswoman and celebrity interviewer who made history for women and Jewish anchors on mainstream American news television, died at 93 on Friday.
ABC News, where Walters regularly appeared on shows such as “20/20” and “The View,” shared the news without giving a cause of death.
Before becoming one of the most enduring and talked about news hosts in the world...
ALVIN SAMUELS, a retired engineer and chemist, who had worked as a deep drilling engineer before founding his own companies for treating hydrogen sulfide in oil and natural gas, died at East Jefferson Hospital on Friday, Dec. 30, after a brief illness. He was 88.
Samuels grew up in Paragould, AR. and graduated from Western Military Academy as their highest ranking cadet ever. He then attended the University of Illinois,...
By RON KAMPEAS
(JTA) — Rabbi Chaim Druckman, whose mission was to unite the people of Israel, was father to a movement now poised to sow some of its deepest divisions in decades.
Druckman, who died Sunday at 90 after contracting COVID-19, was a giant in the religious Zionism movement, which sought to integrate the two preeminent philosophies that saw themselves as bulwarks against Jewish disintegration: Orthodox Judaism and Zionism.
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