Obituaries

Norfolk —Robert Jay Soble, 67, died Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016 in his residence. He was a native of...

Virginia Beach —Ryvela June Berk passed away January 9, 2016. She was the daughter of Oscar and...

BOSTON (JTA)—Howard Leibowitz, an influential behind-the-scenes aide to two Boston mayors and a...

Andreja Preger, noted concert pianist, anti-Nazi partisan Andreja Preger, a noted concert pianist...

NORFOLK—Bertram Spagat Nusbaum, Jr., 91, played his final round of life on January 2, 2016, with...

Virginia Beach —Edna Rubin Levin, 93, passed away December 20, 2015. She was born in Newport News,...

Chicago—Eliot Alan Landau, 73, passed away on January 4, 2016 after a long illness. A native of...

Norfolk —Hanna Lillian Robbins Konikoff, devoted wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother...

Samuel “Sandy” Berger, who served as President Bill Clinton’s national security adviser, has died....

LOS ANGELES (JTA)—Tibor Rubin, a Korean War hero who survived a Chinese prisoner of war camp and...

Norfolk —Hope W. Price, 94, died November 19, 2015. She was a native of Henderson, N. C. and was...

Virginia Beach —Nancy Ruth Mazur, 67, passed away Dec. 6, 2015. She was born to Howard and Gussie...

Portsmouth —Louis Klavan, 89, passed away Thursday, December 3, 2015. He was born in Norfolk to...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (JTA) — Nahum Sirotsky, one of Brazil’s most veteran journalists and a...

BOSTON (JTA)—Joseph Silverstein, a renowned violinist, skilled concertmaster and sought-after...

Ezra Schwartz, the American yeshiva student killed in a West Bank shooting, was remembered as “a...

NORFOLK—Barry Reid Mandell, 75, passed away on November 22, 2015. He was born in Long Beach,...

JERUSALEM (JTA)—Yitzhak Navon, Israel’s first Sephardic president and the first president to visit...

French media published the names of over 100 victims of the Paris terror attacks, including the...

French political philosopher Andre Glucksmann, who began his career as a Marxist and later...