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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Rabbi Avraham Zuckerman, founder of the Bnei Akiva yeshiva network and a leader in the national-religious movement in Israel, has died.
Zuckerman, whose Bnei Akiva network included some 60 institutions, died Saturday night. He was 98.
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LISELOTTE LEVY WEIL, a Holocaust survivor, who was forced to flee Nazi Germany in 1939, but who became a well-known figure in New Orleans, died October 11 at her home. She was 92.
Weil was an active volunteer at Touro...
LEOPOLD “LEE” BREEN, a former owner of Breen Furniture and a retired manufacturer’s representative, died Tuesday, October 8, following a long illness. A native and lifelong resident of New Orleans, he was 93.
Breen had recently been living at Lambeth...
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TEL AVIV (JTA) — Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the Israeli sage who founded the Sephardic Orthodox Shas political party and exercised major influence on Jewish law, has died.
Yosef died Monday at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem....
Rabbi Haim Ovadia Yosef, the former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, passed away on Monday, October 7, 2013, with his family and close colleagues by his side, including President Shimon Peres. He was 93.
A noted Talmudic scholar and leading halachic...
(Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) – World-renowned Holocaust historian professor Israel Gutman, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Auschwitz concentration camp and one of the founders of the Yad Vashem International Institute for Holocaust Research, passed away in...
JONATHAN FRANK SILVERMAN, an information technology network administrator, succumbed to a longtime illness on Tuesday, October 1. He was 33.
A native of River Ridge, Silverman was a graduate of Ridgewood High School who attended ITI Technical College in Baton...
(JTA) — Marcel Reich-Ranicki, a German-Jewish author and literary critic sometimes referred to in Germany as the “pope of literature,” has died.
The death of Reich-Ranicki, a Holocaust survivor and a spokesman for reconciliation between Jewish and non-Jewish Germans, was...
MARJORIE SKINNER TOLMAS, a former chief of Nursing at both Touro Infirmary and Oschner Foundation Hospital, died Tuesday, September 17, 2013.
A resident of New Orleans for the past 65 years, Tolmas graduated from the Charity School of Nursing before...
CAROLYN LAZARUS, a housewife, mother and community volunteer died at Lambeth House on Friday, September 13, 2013. She was 91.
Lazarus was born in Shreveport and attended Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, the same school her future husband, Dr. Wilbur...
