Obituaries

Virginia Beach —Henry Edward Rubin, 83, passed away on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015 in Richmond, Va. He...

Norfolk — Iris Robinson Pincus, loving wife, mother and grandmother passed peacefully on Tuesday,...

Portsmouth — Arthur Victor Lerman, 77, died February 2, 2015. A native of Portsmouth, he was the...

Virginia Beach —Esther Levine Goldman, of Virginia Beach, passed away on January 24, 2015 at age...

Silver Spring , Md—On Monday, Jan. 19, 2015 Dr. Albert S. Glickman of Silver Spring, Md., passed...

Hertfordshire , England —Braham Martin Baum passed away peacefully on Tuesday, Jan. 27 at the age...

(JTA)—Mario Cuomo, a three-term New York governor, was the rare politician who appealed to the...

Bess Myerson, the only Jewish woman to be crowned Miss America, has died. Myerson, who also was a...

Norfolk —Alan J. Mand, 77, passed away on Friday, Jan. 2, 2014. He was a Norfolk native, Maury...

Norfolk —Ethel A. Katz, 97, passed away Thursday, Jan.1, 2015. She was the daughter of the late...

Portsmouth —Gerald Forman Kahan, age 85 of Tampa, Fla., died Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014. Mr. Kahan...

Portsmouth —Florence Bress Karp, 96, died Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014 in her home. A Norfolk native,...

The parents of Steven Sotloff, the Jewish journalist who was beheaded by a member of ISIS, lit a...

Photographer Phil Stern, known for his candid shots of Hollywood stars and jazz musicians, has...

Norfolk—Marion Bette Segal passed away peacefully in her home on Dec. 5, 2014 in Long Grove, Ill....

Norfolk — Solomon Ponizovskiy, 82, died Nov. 28, 2014 in Sentara Norfolk General Hospital from...

Virginia Beach —Harry Polay, 93, died Dec. 3, 2014. Mr. Polay was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. to the...

Norfolk — Gertrude “Trudy” Jacobs Friedman, 82, died Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014 in her residence. She...

Mike Nichols, the Oscar-winning director of The Graduate who had escaped Nazi Germany as a boy,...

Mervyn Smith, president of the African Jewish Congress and a major anti-apartheid activist in the...