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Noach Dear, 66, Former New York City Councilman And State Supreme Court Judge
(JTA) — Noach Dear, a longtime New York City Council member representing largely Orthodox areas of Brooklyn, died April 19 in New York of complications related to COVID-19. He was 66. Dear was elected to the council in 1983 representing sections of Midwood, Bensonhurst and Borough Park that were heavily populated with Orthodox Jews. Dear…
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In Miami, handicapping the election, without the deli
Pre-coronavirus, you could walk into a trifecta of Jewish delis, all within a seven-mile strip of South Dixie Highway, to get a sense of which way Miami Jews are leaning on Trump v. Biden. But now that the ground zero of the Jewish kibitzing scene is off-limits due to social distancing, you have to do…
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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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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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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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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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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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Scuffle disrupts compromise with police at Chabad headquarters around prayer, social distancing
A gathering of young men in front of the Chabad movement’s Brooklyn headquarters led to a scuffle with police, who have been permitting prayer services there for a month despite the ban on gatherings amid the coronavirus pandemic. The incident highlighted the attempts by law enforcement to balance the devout community’s spiritual needs with safety…
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Jewish nonprofit best practices are no match for coronavirus
T’ruah, a nonprofit that trains Jewish clergy to work on human rights campaigns, has a somewhat unusual funding structure. A third of its annual revenue— about $1.4 million in 2018, according to tax filings — comes from foundations, which normally make up a larger portion for Jewish organizations of its size. The rest comes from…
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I went on Holocaust pilgrimage as an adult. A virtual March of the Living isn’t enough.
Through the dark forest, my parents and I inched our way over rocks and twigs, to a clearing surrounded by a short fence edged with unlit candles and flowers, some fake, some wilting. My feet pressed into the spongy weeds as our group gathered to hum a niggun, then say Kaddish. Huddled near my parents…
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A wardrobe artist makes masks for quarantined Holocaust survivors
The gift she hoisted with a string onto the balcony of her two-bedroom condo was the closest to human contact Ursula Israelski had come in a month. It was a face mask sewn by Sandy Scheller, former wardrobe tech for Cirque du Soleil’s “Zumanity” in Las Vegas, and it came with the bonus of a…
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