The Forward, in collaboration with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Jewish media outlets around the world, is sharing obituaries of people in the Jewish community who have died from the coronavirus or ensuing complications. Do you know someone who has…
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News Neil Krieger, 78, Biotech Consultant Who Fought For Civil Rights
(JTA) — When Neil Krieger was a graduate student at Harvard University in the mid-1960s, he decided he had to do something about racism. Not content to watch from the sidelines as others battled for civil rights, he joined the Boston branch of the Congress of Racial Equality and began visiting local businesses, imploring them…
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News Carolyn Becker, 83, Was Looking Forward To Life’s Next Chapter
BOSTON (JTA) – In February, Carolyn Becker was getting ready to embrace a new chapter in her life. Just three months earlier, the 83-year-old’s husband of 59 years had died, but Becker was determined to follow through on their plans to move to the Washington, D.C. area to be closer to her son. She visited…
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News Aaron Rubashkin, 92, Patriarch Of Troubled Kosher Meat Empire
(JTA) — Aaron Rubashkin knew a thing or two about mistreatment at the hands of governmental authorities. As a child in the Russian town of Nevel, he saw his Jewish school shut down by the Soviet government in 1938. After the Nazis arrived in the summer of 1941, the Rubashkin family fled on foot, landing…
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News Jeffrey Sanderson, 62, Took Pleasure In The Small Things
BOSTON (JTA) – For Jeffrey Sanderson, it was the small things in life that brought the most joy. He couldn’t get enough of old episodes of “I Love Lucy,” and “Leave it to Beaver,” which tickled his sense of humor. An outing to the park, with a stop for french fries at McDonald’s, were adventures…
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News Alison Schwartz, 29, People Magazine Staffer And Devoted Gift Giver
(JTA) — When Alison Schwartz set out to find a gift for her best friend’s wedding in 2018, she did it with her trademark creativity and fastidiousness. The idea was to make a 42-square-foot quilt with all 1,450 words of the couple’s wedding vows hand stitched on the underside. But Schwartz was a perfectionist, and…
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News Lee Kozol, 87, Boston Attorney Who Represented The Patriots
BOSTON (JTA) – When Lee Kozol entered Harvard Law School in the 1950s, he was following along a well-worn path of familial achievement. Kozol was born into a multigenerational family of prominent Boston-area Jewish lawyers. His brother, Joel, was also a Harvard alum, and both brothers served as editors of the prestigious Harvard Law Review….
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News Suzy Levy, 66, Dedicated Nurse Who Refused To Retire
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Suzy Levy was the head nurse at the Ear, Nose and Throat Department at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Aviv. On April 27, she became the first Israeli medical worker to fall victim to the coronavirus pandemic, just two weeks after the virus claimed the life of her sister. Levy was 66…
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News Robert Ullian, 75, Peace Advocate Who Spray-Painted The Route Of The Green Line Across Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (JTA) — One dark evening in the 1990s, Robert Ullian snuck out of his home in the mixed Jewish and Arab neighborhood of Abu Tor and marked out the route of the Green Line, the boundary splitting pre-1967 Israel from the West Bank, with green spray paint. A longtime advocate of Israeli-Palestinian coexistence, Ullian…
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