Virginia Beach—Bernard “Bernie” Weiss passed away peacefully on May 25, 2021 at Sentara Hospice...
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May the Source of Peace send peace to all who mourn, and comfort to all who are bereaved.
Louis Brenner
PORTSMOUTH—Louis Brenner, 98, died on May 14, 2021. He was born and raised in Richmond, Va. After...
Stanley Graber
Virginia Beach—Stanley Graber, MD, Capt.(ret.) USPHS, passed away on May 12, 2021. He was born in...
Hilda “Honey” Verschleisser
Baltimore, MD—Hilda Rose Verschleisser (nee Peck), of Baltimore, Maryland, passed away on Friday,...
Charles Grodin, Jewish comic actor known for The Heartbreak Kid and Beethoven
(JTA)—Charles Grodin, the deadpan Jewish comic actor who starred in such blockbuster films as The...
Former congressman Lester Wolff, known for surviving assassination threats and supporting Israel
(JTA)—Lester Wolff, who served eight terms as a Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives and...
Faye Schulman, Holocaust survivor whose photographs documented the partisan resistance
(JTA)—Faye Schulman, a Holocaust survivor who lost most of her family to the Nazis but joined a...
Five Israelis from one family among 14 dead in cable car crash in Italy
(JTA)—Fourteen people, including five members of an Israeli family, were killed Sunday, May 23 in...
Janice M. Hurley
Chesapeake—Janice M. Hurley, age 62, passed away Tuesday, April 20, 2021 in her Chesapeake home...
Janna Marjorie Levinstein
Norfolk—Janna Levinstein, 74, passed away on April 18, 2021. Her family will miss her dearly....
Robert Bruce Shapiro
Norfolk—Robert Bruce Shapiro, 70, of Norfolk passed away Tuesday, March 31, 2020. Arrangements by...
Eli Broad, philanthropist who remade Los Angeles and gave to Jewish causes
(JTA)—Eli Broad, the Jewish philanthropist who strove to reshape Los Angeles as an international...
Elsie Hirsch
Virginia Beach—Elsie Hirsch, 99, passed away peacefully at home on April 1, 2021, just days shy of...
Benita “Bunny” Mirman
Norfolk—Benita “Bunny” Mirman passed away peacefully on April 5, 2021, surrounded by her three...
Seymour Benjamin Mendelssohn
Virginia Beach—Seymour B. “Baca” Mendelssohn, 78, of Virginia Beach, and formerly of Scranton,...
Judge Norman Olitsky
Norfolk—Judge Norman Olitsky, 96, passed away peacefully on April 8, 2021, after a courageous and...
Gloria Grossman Padersky
Norfolk—Gloria Grossman Padersky passed away on April 14, 2021 at the age of 94. She was...
Louis Padersky
Norfolk—Louis Padersky passed away peacefully on Sunday, April 11 2021 at the age of 95,...
Marianne Steiner, 101, stylish Holocaust survivor who supported research on German Jewry
(JTA)—As a young Jewish refugee in the late 1930s, Marianne Steiner brought creative flair to her...
Charles Edward Barr
BRANFORD—Charles Edward Barr, 92, passed away on March 13, 2021. Born in Washington, DC, raised in...
