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News Evelyne Cohen, 93, Fled Tunisia To Become Matriarch Of A Large Family
(JTA) — Evelyne Cohen led a comfortable life before fleeing her native Tunisia after it won independence from France in the late 1950s. The daughter of a prominent merchant, she had grown up in a large house in the port city of Sfax, a member of the Jewish community’s elite. But when her family, buffeted…
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News Salomon Podgursky, 84, Lived A Life Of Resilience After The Holocaust
(JTA) — When Robert Podgursky was a boy, his father piled him and his brother into the car and headed north from their home in Louisville, Kentucky. Their destination was Toronto, where a relative from the old country had settled. Armed with little more than an address and an unshakeable sense of mission, Salomon Podgursky…
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News Gabriel, 55, And Roberto Yabra, 85, Leaders In Argentina’s Kosher Food Industry
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — Rabbi Gabriel Yabra was an expert in kosher supervision — not just in the religious laws around Jewish dietary practices, but in the chemical processes of modern food production. For decades, he was the director of UK Kosher, a Buenos Aires-based kosher certification agency that is the largest is the Spanish-speaking…
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News Joseph Feingold, 97, A Survivor Who Famously Brought A Violin From Germany To The Bronx
(JTA) — NEW YORK (Forward via JTA) — Joseph Feingold, a Holocaust survivor, architect and memoirist whose gift of music brought a unique friendship to a South Bronx community died April 15 of pneumonia and COVID-19. He was 97. Jozef Fajngold was born to socialist parents on March 23, 1923, in Warsaw. His father, Aron,…
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News Mindella Lamm, 88, Wife Of Former Yeshiva University President
NEW YORK (JTA) — To those she met accompanying her husband on university business, she was the elegant woman known simply as Mrs. Lamm. To her four children and 17 grandchildren, she was a loving mother who took them on regular outings to Broadway shows and the opera. For years, Mindella “Mindy” Lamm had a…
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News Isaiah Kuperstein, 70, Was First Director Of Education At U.S. Holocaust Museum
(JTA) — Isaiah Kuperstein was known for his big, booming voice and even bigger personality. But those close to him appreciated his softer side, a quality that came across in the way he treated his wife, Elana. Even after 43 years of marriage, Kuperstein still called her his “bride” and often held her hand in…
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News John Adler, Polymath Descended From Hasidic Royalty
(JTA) — John Adler was a descendant of Hasidic royalty, tracing his family lineage back to Reb Shmelke of Nikolsburg, one of the earliest Hasidic rabbis. But for years, Adler was estranged from Jewish practice. That changed some time after he arrived in Bristol, England, where for nearly three decades he worked in the drama…
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News Alby Kass, 89, Klezmer Musician Who Built Northern California Jewish Community
(JTA) — BERKELEY, Calif. (J. Weekly via JTA) — Alby Kass, one of the founders of the Russian River Jewish Community some four decades ago, has died March 31 of complications from COVID-19. He was 89. After spending the past year battling a number of other illnesses, he succumbed in a San Leandro hospital bed…
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