Obituaries

Virginia Beach —Jackie passed away on May 6, just weeks after her diagnosis of metastatic bladder...

Ezra Schwartz, who was killed in a West Bank terrorist attack in November 2015, was inducted...

A Chicago Jewish couple who were married for 69 years died moments apart in the same hospital room...

Jesse Lurie, the longtime executive editor of Hadassah Magazine and a peace activist, has died at...

Rabbi Benny Elon, who served as the head of a number of religious Zionist yeshivas in Israel and...

Ramat Hasharon , Israel —Rachel (Regina) Tessler, mother of long-time cantor of Congregation Beth...

Norfolk —Ruth Chapel Soskel, 98, died peacefully in her residence on April 30, 2017. She was a...

Ashev ille, N.C.—David M. Finder, 67, of Asheville, N.C. died peacefully on Sunday, April 16, 2017...

(JTA)—Looking through the barbed wire of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, 14-year-old Nanette...

Ruth Sulzberger Holmberg, a newspaper publisher and civil rights activist in Tennessee, has died...

VIRGINIA BEACH—Martin E. Silfen, an entertainment lawyer and Professor of Law, died unexpectedly...

Norfolk —Nancy Leitman Forman, 83 of Norfolk, died peacefully April 19, 2017 in Virginia Beach....

Norfolk —A guardian angel must have accompanied Joe Collector during his numerous bombing missions...

NEW YORK (JTA)—Don Rickles, the bullet-headed comedian and actor whose pioneering brand of insult...

Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, best known for his poem commemorating the slaughter of Jews by...

Virg inia Beach —Morris Silverstein 94, passed away on March 31, 2017. His funeral took place at...

Norfolk —Larry (nee Lawrence) Bennett Kurzer passed away in Chiang Mai, Thailand, on March 10,...

Virginia Beach —Augusta Straus Goodman, born in Richmond, Virginia on May 10, 1917, passed away...

Elliott Horowitz, the author of Reckless Rites: Purim and the Legacy of Jewish Violence—considered...

Ingeborg Syllm-Rapoport, a German neonatologist who passed her doctoral defense exam nearly eight...