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News Bella Granek, 89, Holocaust Survivor Who Was Great With Kids
(JTA) — Bella Granek had a magical touch with babies and young children. When her twin grandchildren were infants, she was often by her daughter’s side lending a hand in their care and knowing just how to get them to sleep. Granek’s many grandchildren delighted in their visits to her home in Lakewood, New Jersey,…
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News Mauro Viale 73 – Popular Argentine Television Host
(JTA) — BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — Early in his journalism career, Mauricio Goldfarb changed his name to Mauro Viale, a shift many understood as an indication of the difficulty of achieving professional success in Argentina for someone with such an obviously Jewish name. Mauro was his nickname among school friends; Viale was a street…
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News Milton Steinberg, 96, Lover Of Cantorial Music
(JTA) — On the most solemn day of the Jewish calendar, the voice of Milton Steinberg rose to the heavens. For more than a decade Steinberg, a Holocaust survivor with a resonant voice and a lifelong passion for cantorial music, joined Cantor Shimon Craimer of the Riverdale Jewish Center during the recitation of the Avodah…
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News Alberto Sonsol, 63, Legendary Uruguayan Sportscaster Who Once Said ‘Baruch Hashem’ On The Air
(JTA) — BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — Alberto Sonsol Cohen was one of the most popular sports commentators in Uruguay. For four decades he covered baseball games and soccer matches for some of the largest media outlets in the country, including the national broadcaster TNU. In 2018, Jews across the border in Argentina were disappointed…
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News Marianne Steiner, 101, Stylish Holocaust Survivor Who Supported Research On German Jewry
(JTA) — As a young Jewish refugee in the late 1930s, Marianne Steiner brought creative flair to her job as a window dresser at Saks Fifth Avenue, the upscale department store in Manhattan. While her family was well off before fleeing Nazi Germany, their finances in New York were more limited. At the time, Steiner…
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News Ernesto Teicher, 76, Real Estate Developer And Jewish Community Builder
(JTA) — Ernesto Bernardo Teicher was a builder — both of buildings in the Argentinean city of Cordoba, and of its Jewish institutions. Teicher was one of the leading real estate developers in Cordoba, the second-most populous city in the country. He was also a former president of JCC Centro Union Israelita and the local…
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News Andres Abt, 47, First Jewish Mayor Of A District In Uruguay’s Capital Montevideo
(JTA) — The first Jewish mayor of a district in the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo died after two weeks battling COVID-19. Andres Abt died on March 12 at the age of 47. Two days later, his funeral procession to the Jewish cemetery in Montevideo stopped by the Torre Ejecutiva, the headquarters of the federal government,…
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News Joseph Elliot Elowsky, 85, Drove ‘Harem’ Of Senior Citizens To Their Appointments
(JTA) — Joe Elowsky’s spring-making company was beloved by its employees, many of whom had been hired because Elowsky was committed to employing people with special needs. One former worker, who had been diagnosed as emotionally disturbed, came back every year with his wife and child to visit his former boss at the company’s Long…
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