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 Gilbert Liss, 91, OB-GYN Who Delivered Over 8,000 Babies
(JTA) — (Jewish Exponent via JTA) — Dr. Gilbert Liss was an OB-GYN with a practice in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. He delivered more than 8,000 babies in his career. “When I close my eyes and think about my dad, I feel his genuine joy for seeing me, the hand squeeze or arm around me walking side by side,…
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News David Gitlitz, 78, Scholar Of Sephardic Jewish History
(JTA) — When David Gitlitz first walked the Camino de Santiago, a network of pilgrimage trails in northwestern Spain dating to the Middle Ages, he was a young professor at Indiana University. The 500-mile trek became an enduring fascination for Gitlitz and his wife, the late Linda Kay Davidson, whom he met on that first…
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News In California, rabbis ask why clergy aren’t in first — or second, or third — group for COVID-19 vaccination
As tens of thousands of vaccines are distributed to healthcare workers and the elderly across Los Angeles County, faith leaders are not in either of the top tiers, keeping them sidelined as the pandemic worsens through the winter months. “I’m baffled,” said Rabbi Elazar Muskin, who leads Young Israel of Century City, an Orthodox synagogue…
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News Hugh Malcolm Berger, 88, Helped Found Atlanta Home For People With Disabilities
(JTA) — Hugh Malcolm Berger would spend months preparing exquisite desserts for the annual open house at the Atlanta Group Home, a residence for people with developmental disabilities where his daughter, Nanci, has lived since 1984. Berger drew on his Alabama roots for his powdered coconut sugar cookies, but his specialty was Hughie’s Chewies, a…
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News Marvin And Zippora Hyman, 92 And 75, Travel Lovers Married For 49 Years
(JTA) — Marvin and Zippora Hyman were married for nearly half a century and as inseparable in life as they were in death. The couple died of COVID-19 within 24 hours of each other. Marvin died on March 29 at 92. Zippora died the following day at 75. A retired airplane mechanic, Marvin came down…
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News Carlos Escude, 72, Driven To Judaism By Argentine Economic Crisis
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — In April, as much of the world introduced limits on movement and commerce in an effort to halt the spread of the coronavirus, Argentinean political theorist Carlos Escude waged a one-man protest outside his home in Buenos Aires. In a video that the newspaper Perfil described as “bizarre,” Escude can be…
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News Irena Veisaite, 92, Holocaust Survivor Turned Human Rights Advocate
(JTA) — Even in the most challenging circumstances, Irena Veisaite never missed a chance to foster tolerance and understanding. One of the few Jews to survive the Holocaust in Lithuania, Veisaite’s passion for reconciliation helped defuse a tense moment during an exchange between Poles and Lithuanians at the White Synagogue in Sejney, a Polish town…
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News Bram Van Der Vlugt, 86, Was A Holocaust Survivor Who Played Santa Claus On Dutch TV
(JTA) — Bram van der Vlugt was both a Holocaust survivor and the face of Christmas in his native Netherlands. From 1986 to 2000, van der Vlugt portrayed Santa Claus in broadcasts of a Dutch holiday tradition known as “The National Arrival of Sinterklaas.” In late November every year, viewers across the country would tune…
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