Obituaries

Mark Steven Holzsweig, 60, died on July 7, 2012. Born in Norfolk on Feb. 28, 1952, he was the son...

Nora Ephron, a film director, author and essayist who wrote the screenplays for When Harry Met...

WASHINGTON (JTA)—When Yitzhak Shamir was Israel’s prime minister, he liked to point American...

St. Louis, Mo.—M. Alan Permutt, MD, passed away Monday, June 11, 2012 at the age of 72 after a...

Norfolk—Selma Weise Friedman, 92, died peacefully on Saturday, June 16, 2012. Born in Baltimore,...

Virginia Beach—Frances Friedland, 97, of Virginia Beach, formerly of Hollywood, Fla. and a former...

Virginia Beach—Gary Drucker, 77, passed away peacefully on June 9, 2012, son of Max and Rose...

Virginia Beach—Selma Cardon Bennett, age 94, passed away Wednesday, June 13, 2012 surrounded by...

Chesapeake—Rose Armstrong, 80, passed away May 4, 2012 at Sentara Leigh Hospital. She was...

Al Gordon, who parlayed a chance wartime meeting with an entertainment troupe into an Emmy-winning...

Virginia Beach —Harry Kreitzer, 95, passed away on May 28, 2012. He was a 32nd degree mason and a...

Norfolk —Donald Higgins, 60, longtime social worker, residing in Ghent in Norfolk, died on Monday,...

Arno Lustiger, a Holocaust survivor and historian who put a spotlight on Jewish resistance against...

Tamara Brooks, a noted choral conductor, and the wife and musical partner of singeractor Theodore...

Jenny Bluestein, a one-time nurse who became a prominent hair stylist and TV personality in St....

Celebrity hair stylist Vidal Sassoon, who was committed to fighting anti-Semitism and fought in...

Scotch Plains, N.J—John Sperling, 100, passed away on Wednesday, May 9, 2012, at the Center for...

Norfolk—Freda Sylvia Schwartz, 91, died May 4, 2012 in Virginia Beach. Born in Norfolk she was the...

Norfolk—Claire Weinberg Nesson, of Norfolk, passed away at her residence on Monday, May 7, with...

Virginia Beach—Joseph Flum, 85, died May 1, 2012. Mr. Flum was born in New York to the late Henry...