Obituaries

Kensimgton , Md.—Margo Kranz Gottesman died on August 31, 2015, after a long illness. She is...

Norfolk —Sylvia Lerner Glazer, 73, of Charleston, passed away on Wednesday, August 26, 2015 at...

NORFOLK—Helene Blum (nee Piwovar) 87, formerly of Philadelphia, Pa., passed away on August 19,...

Goldie Steinberg, reportedly the world’s oldest known Jewish person, died at age 114. Steinberg,...

LOS ANGELES (JTA)—Gerald Bubis, who pioneered and shaped the field of Jewish communal service and...

Norfolk —Florence Kahn Samuels, 91 of the 5500 block of Frog Pond Lane, died August 24, 2015. Mrs....

Norfolk —Charles M Mansbach II , MD, of Memphis, died surrounded by family on August 19, 2015. He...

Virginia Beach —Edmund Herring, 84, formerly of Levittown, Pa., Salisbury, Md., and Destin, Fla.,...

NORFOLK—Herman Jerry Gutterman, 75, husband and dad, passed away on Sunday, August 16, 2015. Jerry...

NORFOLK—Morton Goldmeier, 91, passed away on Tuesday, August 25, 2015 in his residence with his...

Virginia Beach —Herbert S. Epstein, 88, passed away suddenly, but peacefully on Saturday, August...

Virginia Beach —Eleanor Simon Cohen, 96, passed away peacefully at home on August 17, 2015....

Norfolk —Shirley Blum, 93, of Virginia Beach, passed away on August 12, 2015. Born in Brooklyn,...

(Baltimore Jewish Times via JTA)—Neely Tal Snyder, a Jewish educator and advocate who was known...

Orna Porat, a German convert to Judaism who became a grande dame of Israeli theater, died at the...

(JTA)—Theodore Bikel, an actor and folk singer who was recognized in 1997 with a Lifetime...

Virginia Beach —Gertrude (Trudy) K. Rosenblatt, 93, passed away on July 18, 2015. She was born in...

Norfolk —Virginia Evett Rosen, 90, died Thursday, August 6, 2015 in Beth Sholom Home. She was a...

Washington , D.C.—Dr. Sally Rose Rogers, PhD in Classics, died Monday July 20, 2015. Sally was...

Norfolk —Nancy Nordlinger Nusbaum died peacefully on August 3, 2015 at her home. Born on April 14,...