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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Yoram Kaniuk, an acclaimed author and journalist who had the designation Jewish removed from his Israeli identification card, has died.
Kaniuk died Saturday night after fighting cancer for many years. He was 83.
Born and raised in...
PHYLLIS BLOOM BRUCHIS FINGER, a housewife and mother who had a penchant for poetry, died in New Orleans on May 31. She was 90. Finger had been residing at the Willow Wood Living Center at Woldenberg Village on the West...
BYRDE BERENSON HASPEL, a housewife and community volunteer who worked most notably for the boards of Jewish Children’s Regional Service and Touro Infirmary, died peacefully in her sleep at her home on May 27, 2013. She was 96.
A native...
(JTA) — Georges Moustaki, a French singer and songwriter known as “The Wandering Jew,” has died.
Moustaki’s Paris-based production company said he had died early Thursday at his home in Nice in southern France following a long illness, the French...
J. PHILIP STEIN, 82, an attorney and businessman died suddenly of a heart attack on May 9, 2013. A lover of all things related to his adopted home of New Orleans, Stein was, at the time of his passing, a...
(JTA) — Joyce Brothers, the Jewish psychologist who achieved fame by dispensing advice on TV and radio, as well as winning the top prize on a 1950s game show, has died.
Brothers died Monday in New York. She was 85.
...HOWARD JACK ROSEN, a retired travel agent who lived and worked in Metairie, died at his residence on Sunday, May 12. He was 86. Well-known and well-liked in his industry, Rosen was a longtime member of Tikvat Shalom before it...
DOROTHY “DOTSY” (née SAMUELSON) FISHER, widowed last June year by her husband of 63 years, Jack Fisher, died at home early on May 9. She was 84. Fisher was a housewife and community volunteer for much of her life, but...
SYLVIA REINER SHUSHAN, who became a saleswoman for Sak’s Fifth Avenue in New Orleans’ Canal Place department store mall, died Wednesday, May 1 after a lengthy illness.
Natives of New Orleans, she and her sister Dorothy “Dot” Reiner, famously married...
DAVID BERNSTEIN, a man who transformed a small tire firm into the largest independent tire company in the state of Louisiana, died on Monday, April 29, 2013 at the age of 92.
A native of Decatur, AL, Bernstein moved to...
