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September 08, 2013
JEROME L. GOLDMAN, an engineering pioneer, philanthropist, and civic leader, died September 5, 2013, at his home in New Orleans after a lengthy illness. He was 89.
Goldman received various national and international naval architecture and engineering recognitions including the...
September 03, 2013
MILLIE GREENBERG BRICKMAN MERLIN, a former real estate agent and stay-at-home mother, passed away peacefully at Chateau Living Center on Saturday, August 31, 2013. She was 98.
Merlin, the widow of second husband Jack Merlin, had in more recent times...
August 30, 2013
MORRIS KRILOV, 96, a retired furniture store owner died earlier today, August 30, in Metairie,. A longtime member of Congregation Chevra Thilim (Orthodox and later Conservative), Krilov and his family became members of Shir Chadash Conservative Synagogue at the time...
August 21, 2013
JULIAN GOOD, a retired real estate attorney who was a senior partner in the law firm of Lemle & Kelleher, an integral part of his more than 50-year legal career, died August 18 of complications from pneumonia in Savannah, GA,...
August 20, 2013
HELEN CHAJA LEVKOWICZ, a Holocaust survivor who lived a quiet life in New Orleans as a homemaker and mother, died Monday, April 19. Levkowicz, 84, had been a resident in recent years at Poydras Home.
A native of Krakow, Poland,...
August 11, 2013
Eydie Gormé, a beloved singer and performer both with and without her famous husband and partner, Steve Lawrence, passed away last night in a Las Vegas hospital after a brief illness. She was just six days short of what would...
August 05, 2013
YEHUDA LEV, an iconoclastic journalist and veteran of World War II and Israel’s War of Independence, who established a European underground route to smuggle Holocaust survivors to Palestine, died Saturday, August 3, in Providence, RI, after a prolonged illness. He...
August 05, 2013
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Yitzhak Berman, who quit Menachem Begin’s government to protest its resistance to investigating the causes of the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre, has died.
Berman died and was buried Sunday on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem with a...
July 30, 2013
HERBERT KAPLOW, a veteran reporter for both the ABC and NBC networks died Saturday, July 27, at the Virginia Hospital Center following a stroke. He was 86. Kaplow, a craggy voiced broadcast journalist began his career while covering the Nuremberg...
July 29, 2013
NATHAN “NAT” HALPERN, a retired insurance agent for Stone Insurance Company for decades, died Friday afternoon, July 26 at the Carpenter House, a hospice house in Baton Rouge. He was 91.
Halpern, an outgoing and gregarious man was also an...