Obituaries

Virginia Beach —Lillian Rosenstein Pugach passed away May 23, 2014, at her home in Virginia Beach...

Virginia Beach —Ruth Brown Posner, 84, died on Sunday, May 25, 2014. She was born in Oak Park,...

A French Jewish group is helping organize a special commemoration for 149 Jews who died during the...

Al Feldstein, the editor of Mad magazine for nearly three decades, has died. Feldstein died...

Gary Becker, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, has died. Becker, who won the Nobel in economic...

Richmond, Va.—Irwin Allen Heller, 71, of Richmond, Va., died Saturday after a brief illness. Irwin...

Virginia Beach —Jack Kenneth Boyd died on May 1, 2014. He was born on August 29, 1919 in...

Chesapeake—Ruth Armstrong-Bigio, 62, of Chesapeake, passed on May 2, 2014. Altmeyer Funeral Home.

Rabbi Aaron Landes, a Philadelphia congregational rabbi for decades and the longtime director of...

Chevy Chase , MD—On Saturday, April 19, 2014, Hans John Rosenbach of Chevy Chase, Md., passed...

Norfolk — Martin Lawrence Rosen passed away after a brief illness in Miami Beach on April 18,...

Jenkintown , PA—David Kittner, 95, of Jenkintown, a lawyer and longtime partner at Blank Rome...

Virginia Beach —Mabel Estelle Rackley Hirschbiel, 98, left peacefully on April 17, 2014. Mabel was...

Jacob Birnbaum, who helped launch the movement to free Soviet Jews, has died. Birnbaum, the...

Virginia Beach —Lynn Pearl Silvers Zitron, 65, of the 3200 block of Silver Sands Circle, Virginia...

James Schlesinger, the Jewish-born U.S. defense secretary who played a role in the emergency...

VIRGINIA BEACH—Gertrude Tischler, 93, passed away on March 17, 2014. Services were held in Ft....

Norfolk —Our beloved father, grandfather, great-grandfather and friend, Bernard Rafal, 97, passed...

Norfolk —David Israel Millison, 52, of the 400 block of Fairfax Ave., died Saturday, March 22,...

Kill Devil Hills —Stephen R. Margulies, 75, of the 100 block of Goddard Street died Tuesday, March...