Obituaries

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...

Manchester, United Kingdom —A man of understated brilliance, warmth and compassion, who was...

Norfolk —Howard Lee Popkin, 85, of Germantown, Md., passed from complications of cancer on...

Dr. Henry Krystal, a concentration camp survivor and Holocaust trauma expert, has died. Krystal, a...

Abraham Mandel, 96, passed away on Oct. 3, 2015. He was the son of the late Rae and Joseph Mandel....

Virginia Beach —Mel Losick passed away with his family by his side on October 15, 2015. He was a...

Norfolk —Ava Jean Loeb, 57, passed away peacefully on October 21, 2015, following a courageous and...

Virginia Beach —Irene Helen Stein Levin died Thursday, October 29, 2015 at the age of 89. She was...

Virginia Beach —Carl Janow passed away on Monday, October 26, 2015, at his residence. He was born...

Norfolk —Tavia F. Gordon of Norfolk, Va. died at age 86 on Friday, October 30, 2015. He was born...

LOS ANGELES (JTA)—Rabbi Jacob Pressman, a religious, community and civil rights leader, died in...