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 Saadya Ehrenpreis, 35, Defied Expectations With Determination And Joy
(JTA) — When Saadya Ehrenpreis was an infant, a doctor told his mother that he would “never walk, talk or amount to anything.” He wound up doing all three. Ehrenpreis was born with Down syndrom, but he was intensely determined. With the help of his family, he not only learned to walk and talk, but…
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News Daniel Spector, 68, Artist Who Helped Memphis With A Guinness World Record
(JTA) — Rachel Spector Peak had no idea how beloved her older brother Dan was until she posted about his death on Facebook. Tributes started pouring in immediately. “He made Memphis a better place,” read one. “His dedication to Memphis and to artists is rare and precious,” read another. Spector, who died of COVID-19 on March…
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News Elliot Samet, 69, Beloved Pediatrician Who Helped Establish Passaic Hatzolah
(JTA) — Every year on Purim, neighborhood children would line up outside the home of Elliot Samet in Passaic, New Jersey, waiting to show him their holiday costumes. “There would be a line up outside his house,” his friend George Matyjewicz told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “People just knocking on the door wanting to them…
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News Martin Lovett, 93, Last Surviving Member Of Acclaimed Jewish String Quartet
LONDON (JTA) — Martin Lovett, a British cellist and the last surviving member of the world renowned Amadeus String Quartet, died in London on April 29 after contracting COVID-19. He was 93. The British-born Lovett was the last member to join Amadeus, whose other three players — Siegmund Nissel, Peter Schidlof, and Norbert Brainin —…
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News Henri Kichka, 94, Educated Belgian Schoolchildren About The Holocaust
(JTA) — Henri Kichka was nearly broken by the Holocaust. His father died in Buchenwald at the war’s end after a death march. His mother and two sisters perished in 1942, having been sent straight to Auschwitz. Kichka was the lone survivor, and he emerged from the war distant and pessimistic, undergoing long periods of…
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News Meryl Cohen, 84, Hosted Epic Family Thanksgiving Celebrations
BOSTON (JTA) – Ask those knew Meryl Cohen best and it won’t take long before they start talking about Thanksgiving. The large, weekend-long gatherings became her calling, showcasing Cohen’s culinary talents and reflecting her passion for bringing together an ever-widening circle of extended family, friends and new acquaintances fortunate enough to snag an invite. Cohen…
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News Enrique Mugica Herzog, 88, First Jew To Serve In Spanish Government Since Inquisition
(JTA) — Enrique Mugica Herzog, a former political prisoner who became the first Jew to serve in a Spanish government since the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492, died of the coronavirus on April 10. He was 88. In the early 1980s, Mugica played a pivotal role in talks that led to the establishment…
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News Marnin Soltes, 76, Sweet Soul Who Loved Music
(JTA) — Whenever anyone stopped by his room at the Hebrew Association for Special Children in Brooklyn, Marnin Soltes would show them his extensive, impeccably organized record recollection. He especially liked American folk and blues from the ‘50s and ‘60s. “His favorite singer songwriter was Josh White, and his favorite song was ‘Foggy, Foggy Dew,’”…
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