Saying Goodbye to Mom By Saul Schwartz WASHINGTON, D.C. — My mother, Geraldine Myra (Young) Schwartz, lived most of her life in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, before she retired to San Diego with her husband, Norman Schwartz, 20 years ago. This is the story of her last few months and what I learned from about life from her […]
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Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County
LA JOLLA, California — Judge Murry Luftig, long-time resident of San Diego, passed away on August 27 at the age of 92. He is survived by his wife of sixty-eight years, Rita Luftig, and his children, Vicki Pierce, Mitchell Luftig, Andrea Ferber, and Laura Luftig, along with seven grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Judge Luftig
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Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County
By Rose Aslan Granddaughter LAGUNA WOODS, California — Bernice Loeb (née Seiler), of Laguna Woods, returned to her Creator on Wednesday, July 29, after a short illness, at the ripe old age of 93. She lived a long and fulfilling life. Bernice was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1922, daughter of Charles and Rose
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Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County
By Stephen Hazan Arnoff NEW YORK –A light faded from the world in recent days. Rami Wernik of blessed memory, zichrono l’vracha, was a phenomenal friend, husband and father; a scholar, teacher, mentor and leader; a man of dignity, humor, loyalty, generosity and truth — a light gone elsewhere after a heroic struggle with cancer. Something like
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Jewish Religion, Obituaries & memorials, USA
SAN DIEGO — Sgt. Alfred Menaker, a World War II veteran, died May 16, 2015 at the age of 95. Born in Philadelphia, PA he moved to San Diego in 1974 with his, Thelma, a former commander of the Jewish Auxiliary Post 185 . Alfred and Thelma were married for 68 years before her passing
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Obituaries & memorials, San Diego CountyBy Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — When Maya Mikhaylovna Plisetskaya was eleven years old her father was executed as an “enemy of the people” by the Stalinist regime governing the USSR. Her mother was sent to a prison camp. Though the family was originally from Lithuania, Maya was born in Moscow on November 20, 1925.
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Obituaries & memorialsWARSAW, Poland (WJC) — At a state funeral in Warsaw attended by world leaders, including European Council President Donald Tusk and German President Joachim Gauck, Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, Poland’s former foreign minister and an Auschwitz prisoner who helped save Jews from the Holocaust, was laid to rest on Monday, May 4. Bartoszewski, a historian, writer and
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International, Jewish History, Obituaries & memorials
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Elie Shneour was born in France on December 11, 1925. The son of Zalman and Salomea Shneour, he had one sibling — Renee Shneour, who later became Spanish dancer Laura Toledo. Shneour was raised in Neuilly sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris. His family was of Jewish heritage, his father having emigrated from Czarist Russia
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Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County
By Robert Sommers FALLBROOK, California — My father. Amos Sommers, died Monday, April 6, in the early morning hours. The attendant went into his room and might have seen a last breath around 1:30 in the morning. Not official of course, not until the nurse came by about three, we got the call over at
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Obituaries & memorials, San Diego CountyBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—The eulogy delivered by Rabbi Philip Graubart about Norman Manson, including the fact that the 86-year-old former writer and San Diego Union-Tribune copy editor was being buried on Friday, April 3, the day of Erev Pesach, most likely would have prompted Manson to ask many searching questions. Graubart, spiritual leader of Congregation
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Donald H. Harrison, Obituaries & memorials
NEW YORK (Press Release)- The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) mourns the loss of Dr. Leon Bass, a true American hero who turned his personal and life-altering experience as a soldier during World War II into an opportunity to educate and inspire action in others. Dr. Bass, who lived outside Philadelphia, died on March 28 at the age
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International, Jewish History, Obituaries & memorials, USA
{Eulogy delivered March 29, 2015 at the Home of Peace Cemetery, San Diego} By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO–At the Seder table we read a special book which has an unusual name. The name is derived from the answer to the question posed in the Bible where we are told that the day would come
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Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Former World War II Prisoner of War Sy Brenner in 2012 published a memoir called The Night I Got Killed, telling about the harrowing experiences he had keeping his Jewish identity secret from his Nazi captors and serving the camp as a medic. On Monday, March 9,
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Donald H. Harrison, Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County
HARARE, Zimbabwe (WJC) –Tributes have flowed in for the late Sam Benatar, the president of the Zimbabwe Jewish Board of Deputies and one of Zimbabwe Jewry’s most experienced and active communal leaders. Benatar, 86, who was born in the small town of Concession in what was then Southern Rhodesia, passed away following a long illness
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