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Obituaries
Scientist accused of anthrax killings was a religious man
Israeli swimmer’s Olympic dreams marred by father’s death
Sadly, his father won't be there to see his son compete after an accident at the family's Netanya home claimed Costa Mendel's life.
Mom’s final resting places—a cremation story
If you are offended either by the idea of cremation or humor about the dead, you may want to stop reading. It's OK.
Obituaries
Checklist: What to do when someone dies
Job one: Contact the hospital or mortuary so that you can fill out any paperwork, i.e., death certificate, as soon after the death as possible
The high cost of dying
A traditional Jewish funeral is simple and not ostentatious -- good news for people concerned about the high cost of dying. But while Jewish law doesn't require embalming, elaborate floral displays or 16-gauge metal caskets with tufted crepe interiors, it does require Jews to be buried in the ground. And that costs money.
Trendy, traditional and taboo:
An incomplete guide to Jewish funerals and burial
While not everyone is jumping on the 'I gotta be me' funeral bandwagon, a funny thing is happening on the way to the mortuary. When it comes to thinking about the end of life, be it in the business of funeral homes or in the minds of Jews everywhere, the world is changing.
Nearly 150 die in Hindu temple stampede
Obituaries
Gunman storms Tennessee church, kills one *
A quiet hero
When Libby was not around, the young women of Shalva often had to be coaxed in order to reveal their insecurities or to talk about sensitive issues. But with Libby, it was the opposite.
Obituaries
Tales from the Crypt: Stonehenge an ancient cemetery
Headline of the day
The singularity will give you eternal life
A beautiful shiva
My mother, Sylvia Goldstein, Sura Malka bas Yeshiya, passed away on March 11, the fourth of Adar II. She was 92 and had the full use of her mind and wit all of her years.We moved on to the week of shiva.
Last of failed Hitler assassins dead
AUDIO: Iranian American Jews —Death and violence in the community (taboo?)
Local Iranian Jewish community leaders recent incidents of violence among and the taboo on discussing the topic.
Obituaries
Obituaries March 2008
Charlton Heston denied entry to heaven
The twilight of daily journalism
Vandals attack Muslim graves in France
Charlton Heston dead at 83
Sentenced to death for ‘blasphemy’
Obituaries
Obituaries
Just simply: Why?
Pastor prays for foes demise
The Dance of Life
I spoke to Fred several days before he died. He didn't want to be on hospice, didn't want to think about dying -- or to let me visit him in the hospital -- but he said he thought that he had danced his last dance. I was honored to have shared it with him -- asher hu bam.
What Daniel Pearl stood for
Correction of the year
Obituaries
In a prayer for his ordination from the Hebrew Union College (HUC) in 1940, Wolfgang (Wolli) Kaelter wrote: "Grant us depth that we might understand, vision that we might see, and let us never become self-satisfied."
African-American pilots over Auschwitz
Last week, President Bush remarked that the United States should have bombed the Auschwitz death camp in 1944. Next week, Americans will commemorate the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. and the struggle for Civil Rights. What do these two occasions have in common? More than one might think.
Obituaries
Obituaries, December 7 - 22.
More on the MySpace suicide
Obituaries
Obituaries - December 2008
‘Honor killing’ not Islam’s fault
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Obituaries November/ December 2007
Obituaries
Obituaries for November 2007
Final lesson
In this week's Torah portion, Vayechi, we have the most intimate description of a deathbed scene and the most elaborate description of a le'vayah (funeral) contained in the Torah.
Obituaries
Obituaries for October and November 2007
‘Welcome to Hell’
Obituaries
Obituaries October and November 2007
Evel Knievel rides into eternity
This is parenting?
Heaven or Hell?
Mom’s last day
Remembrance of a mother's last day.
The deadliest books ever published
Who will love the dead?
Gravedigging down with deaths in Iraq
‘Blood and guts - and tender remembrances of home’
Transcendence—a true story for Yom Kippur
What is it that allowed this family to stay whole and renew the life in themselves when fate, or God, or a violent man, dealt them unimaginable grief? In this season of renewal and introspection, of fate and faith, what can others facing obstacles of any degree learn from this family's remarkable ability to transcend the unthinkable?
And who shall die?
This New Year, we will enter our synagogues to take the measure of our souls, to account for our actions, to seek forgiveness, to face the fact that God wants something better from us. Is it so unfair to want, in return, something better from God?
Daniel Dennett: Ideas that evolve into evil organisms
Cutting someone out of will can leave a legacy of pain
Steve Kaplan had just finished sitting shiva for his mother when he was dealt another blow: He had been written out of her will.
Meditation—not just for your average JewBu anymore
The model for the day was dying for the sake of rebirth. Think meditation, think spiritual awakening, think psychoanalysis.
Briefs: Hamas kills off faux Mickey Mouse; Rabbi named to new British cabinet
Briefs
Dr. Death: Not a religious man
Ruth Graham heads home
Billy Graham’s wife in a coma: Where will she rest?
Farewell, my beloved Mom
Finally, I'm grateful to the Almighty for having given me such a remarkable mother who, by example, taught her many offspring about the beauty of Judaism, how to lead meaningful lives and how important it is to do chesed for others. May her memory be a blessing.
Obituaries
Obituaries
‘Tragic Loss’ documents Israeli astronaut’s ill-fated flight
Death in the Hood
The service was heartfelt, but it was also unsettling. There was a kind of emotional chaos in the air -- almost a reluctance to accept that a beautiful life could be taken away from someone so God-fearing and life-giving.
Time for Jewish leaders to end their silence on Iraq
According to all available polls, a large majority of Americans want to bring our involvement in Iraq to an end, and an overwhelming majority of Iraqis themselves are opposed to the continued American occupation of their country.
Horror in the court: Nuremberg trial documentary film finally reaches U.S.
The documentary complements the audio from the trial with visuals of the Nazi era and death camps and features extensive in-person interviews with prosecutors and others involved in the trial.
Release of ‘Alpha Dog ‘ reopens Markowitz family wounds
The film, "Alpha Dog," based on the 2000 kidnapping and murder of 15-year-old West Hills resident Nick Markowitz, has received mixed reviews but growing notoriety.
The great (non) depression
Depression is a word that has been cheapened. We forget that it is a diagnosis for a bona fide disease. It becomes a catch phrase for the weighty feelings we experience as we come to terms with life's challenges and honor the process of change.
Tale of heroics, terror from the top of the world
Experiencing the classic symptoms of altitude sickness -- fatigue and hallucinations -- Hall had refused to continue down the mountain and ended up passing out. The two sherpas with him concluded, after poking Hall in the eye and getting no response, that Hall was dead. Suffering from lack of oxygen themselves, they hurried down the mountain.
Obituaries
Marlene Sherman Altman died Oct. 19 at 70. She is survived by her husband, Harvey; son, Jason; daughter, Sharon; and two grandchildren. Groman
51 Birch Street: House of Blocks . . . House of Cards?
Wanted: someone to help suffering Jews
Who will provide spiritual care for the needy?
Obituaries
Obituaries.
Sukkot: the beauty of fragility
On Sukkot, the time tradition tells us is zman simchateinu, the season of our joy, we dwell in a fragile hut, open to the winds and rain and cold of the world, to remind ourselves that our joy is enriched, is deepened, when we glimpse, if only for a moment, how weak and fragile we are.
Bittersweet symphonies: the Pearls struggle to find life after Daniel’s death
Music was Daniel Pearl's avocation, but journalism was his profession. In pursuit of a story on Al Qaeda's financial ties, the then-38-year-old Wall Street Journal reporter was kidnapped in early 2002 in Pakistan and beheaded by Islamic extremists.
Better late than never, Theodor Herzl, children reunited in death; Ex-N.J. Governor McGreevey’s Isra
Briefs courtesy Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Obituaries
Obituaries
Six self-help books seek to help you get sealed in the Book of Life
Self-help books are essential tools.
And who shall die
I'd like to suggest a small addition to your synagogue's High Holiday services this year, as if they're not long enough. Sometime before the recitation of the mourner's kaddish, or perhaps just before the Torah is returned to the ark, pull out any Sunday Los Angeles Times, and turn to the obituary section.
Salman Rushdie Q & A: there's a fascination with death among suicide bombers
Salmon Rushdie reflects on why apparently normal young men turn to terror, the dangers of religion and whether the United States has turned into an authoritarian state.
Jews in the Military: High Holidays Under Fire
Here are the stories of these American servicemen who observed the High Holidays not in conventional synagogues, but on far-flung battlefields. The worship services they participated in were often improvised and incomplete. But the jarring juxtaposition of war and prayer, faith and fear, continues to resonate with these men.
Painful Lessons Emerge From War in Lebanon
We could have been in the fifth year of an independent Palestinian state if Yasser Arafat had been willing to make a deal with Bill Clinton and Ehud Barak; instead we are we where we are.
Who Is A Jew?
For a great many of us, there is an instant and easy identification with the Jewish state. They are not they, they are we. The heat of battle forges them into us. Whether we've spent much time there, whether we have blood relatives there, we feel ourselves as one, we are they.
Obituaries
Obituaries
We’d All Rather Be in Venice
It's been two years this week since my mother, Betty Switkes, died, and we still haven't had the unveiling. Jewish custom dictates that you unveil the headstone a year after the person dies, but my father has not found the right stone or the right words to inscribe on that stone, so she rests in this unmarked grave. People who pass by this spot might suspect the person buried here is a forgotten soul, but nothing could be further from the truth. She is the focus of his obsession.
Remembering Zvika
A 42-year-old Apache pilot, Zvika rose to the rank of colonel in the Israeli Air Force. He was, according to his peers, "professional and talented," and he did his job with diligence and dedication. Since he had enlisted in the air force at the age of 18, he was due to retire in a year.
For Middle East Women, ‘Cavemen’ Are Not Wanted
Little noticed among the vast media coverage of the latest Middle East crisis were a couple of dispatches by journalists highlighting the actions of an admittedly few women in Israel.
Feds Indict Suspect in Prison Murder of JDL’s Krugel
Krugel had been transferred to the Federal Corrections Institute (FCI) Phoenix, a medium security prison, just three days before the assault. To date, there is no indication that Krugel and Jennings knew each other.
Life vs. Death
Phillip Roth's "Everyman," (Houghton Mifflin) is a short, and in some respects, slight work. Clocking in at around 200 pages, it recounts the life of one man through his medical history. As an organizing principle, this one's as valid as any, even if in this instance, it doesn't necessarily yield the most compelling, multidimensional portrait.
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World
Will new ‘Cold War’ play out in Middle East?
With talk of a new Cold War in the offing following Russia's recent military successes in Georgia, Israel is worried Russia might reassess this policy and use the sale of new weaponry to Syria -- or the threat of it -- to strengthen Russia's hand vis-à-vis Israel's primary
Kids & Teens
Cambodia’s killing fields revisited
I can vividly remember the first time I visited the Museum of Tolerance, in seventh grade. Not personally knowing anyone who had survived the Holocaust, I had been shielded from the grisly details of World War II.
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Torah Portion
Moving beyond charity
Parshat Shoftim (Deuteronomy 16:18-21:9) One of the biggest misnomers in the Jewish vocabulary is the translation of tzedakah as "charity." This mistranslation has gone on for so long in the American Jewish community that it's a hard habit to break.
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Since 1978, Iranian Jews have injected into a stable, maybe even staid Jewish community talent, industry, a profound connection to their Jewish roots and a desire to have a positive political and social impact on the city. They have energized a Jewish community that could always
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