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MICHAEL ALBERT BERENSON, a true renaissance man, who was an engineer, a rocket scientist, a successful businessman and an attorney as well as a Jewish community leader, died Saturday morning, November 30, at his home, surrounded by family members. Berenson,...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Arik Einstein, an iconic Israeli singer as well as a songwriter and actor, has died.
Einstein died Tuesday night at a Tel Aviv hospital, where he was rushed after suffering an aortic aneurysm. He was 74.
Israeli...
FRED GLASSMAN, an aerospace engineer and a longtime resident of New Orleans died at his home Thursday November 21, 2013. He was 90.
Glassman was the Project Engineer at RCA for the Ranger Satellite that took the first successful pictures...
NORINE MARKS ALLTMONT, a homemaker and community volunteer for decades, died November 17 at her home in Laplace. She was 95.
Alltmont had been a longtime member of Touro Synagogue was very involved with the Sisterhood for many years. She...
ARNOLD LEVY, the former owner of Modern Flooring, who also served previously as Temple Sinai president from 1969-1971 died on Tues., Nov. 14. He was 92.
Private services were held on Wed., Nov. 15 and were closed to the public....
By URIEL HEILMAN
NEW YORK (JTA) — Saul Kagan, the founder and a longtime chief of the Claims Conference, died Saturday at age 91.
Kagan helped found the organization in 1951 to be the main vehicle for negotiating with Germany...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Michael Stein, a co-founder of the influential Washington Institute for Near East Policy, has died.
Stein died Nov. 7, one day before his 88th birthday, the think tank said in a news release.
“Mike was a giant...
(JTA) — Paul Reichmann, a Canadian real estate developer and philanthropist who led the family’s Olympia & York company, has died.
Reichmann, whose family business developed the Canary Wharf business district in London and New York’s World Financial Center, died...
(JTA) – Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Poland’s first post-Communist prime minister, was being remembered by the Jewish world for fighting anti-Semitism and as a friend of Israel.
Mazowiecki, a former journalist, died Monday in Warsaw. He was 86.
“We are deeply saddened...
(JTA) — Musician and guitarist Lou Reed, the frontman for the band Velvet Underground as well as a solo artist, has died.
Reed, who was born to a Jewish family, died Sunday at 71. A cause of death was not...
