Obituaries

A serendipitous meeting in 2011 spurred a meaningful relationship between the Holocaust Commission...

SAN FRANCISCO (J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA)—Naomi Lauter, who led Bay Area...

CHESAPEAKE—Eileen Sandra Gatling, 76, died December 5, 2017. Mrs. Gatling was born in Portsmouth,...

Virginia Beach —Calvin Warren Breit died peacefully on December 4, 2017 at the age of 92 in...

AMSTERDAM (JTA)—Henny Goudeketting, a 95-year-old Holocaust survivor, is ailing and preparing to...

Benjamin Scheinkopf, a Poland-born Jew who worked at his Chicago barbershop until he was 97, has...

Portsmouth —Frances Levin Ornoff, 92, passed away Sunday, November 19, 2017. She was born in...

Chesapeake —Beatrice “Bea” Minskoff, 90, passed away unexpectedly on Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017. She...

Norfolk —Bernard Kahn, 95, passed away November 24, 2017. A native and lifelong resident of...

Williamsburg —Baron Jack Gordon, 91, passed away on Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017 at Riverside Regional...

Norfolk —Ramon Allen Cohen, 96, of the 6000 block of Newport Crescent, died peacefully on November...

ROME (JTA)—Rabbi Giuseppe Laras, a leading figure in postwar Italian Judaism, has died. A child...

(JTA)—Tzipora Jochsberger, founder of the Kaufman Music Center in New York and a director of the...

Fairfa x, Va.—Jerome L. Massey of Fairfax died on October 17, 2017 at Fair Oaks Hospital in...

Norfolk —Willard Longman passed away peacefully on Nov. 3, 2017 after a long battle with...

Norfolk —Evelyn Schreiber Eisenberg, 93, passed away November 5, 2017 in Columbia, Md. A native of...

Portsmouth —Gayle Rosenfeld Bennett, 74, passed away Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017. She was born in...

A Philadelphia cemetery vandalized in February has been repaired with the help of donations from...

Virginia Beach —Marilyn Witman, 87, passed peacefully in her sleep on Oct. 19, 2017, at Beth...

Virginia Beach —Linda T. Scott, 74, passed away unexpectedly at home Saturday, October 21, 2017....