The Meaning of Memory: A Yizkor Reflection

Published on September 19, 2012

I grew up in a home filled with food and love and laughter and music and Yiddishkayt and stories. I was the youngest of four kids and we were part of a tribe in Boro Park, Brooklyn, with my uncle Nat’s family living on the floor above us, my uncle Ruby’s family living next door to us, and my grandparents living above them. Nobody ever knocked on the door and nobody ever needed a key, everybody was always barging into everybody else’s home.

Obituaries: Nov. 4-10 2011

Published on November 1, 2011

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Obituaries: Sept. 16-22, 2011

Published on September 13, 2011

Ethel Baron died Aug. 25 at 90. Survived by daughter Carol; sons Howard, Jack (Rhonda), Mitchell (Miyuki); 3 grandchildren; 3 great-grandchildren. Mount Sinai

Obituaries: Sept. 2-8, 2011

Published on August 31, 2011

Esther Edith Cohen died Aug. 6 at 89. Survived by daughters Shari (Gary) Effron, Ziva (Larue) Palmer; sons David (Michael) Serkin-Poole, Arnold (Cate); 10 grandchildren; 7 great-grandchildren; brother Leon (Joan) Prasow. Mount Sinai

Obituaries: May 20-26, 2011

Published on May 17, 2011

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Published on January 7, 2009

The dark side of Chanukah

Published on December 23, 2008

It is important to remember that men can never predict how their descendants will act or how their legacy of achievement will be treated

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Published on December 18, 2008

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Published on November 26, 2008

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Published on October 10, 2008

Paul Newman—Hollywood’s most famous half-Jew—dies at 83 [VIDEO]

By Tom Tugend
Published on September 28, 2008

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Published on September 25, 2008

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Published on September 17, 2008

q 4 u re metrolink

By Steve Greenberg
Published on September 17, 2008

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Published on September 11, 2008

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Published on August 28, 2008

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Published on February 7, 2008

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Published on March 16, 2006

Levia Pearl Abramowitz died Feb. 21. She is survived by her husband, Nathan; daughters Orit (Yitzchak) Cohen, Sharone and Judy; son, Harold (Lani); and grandchild, Harriet Theodore. Mount Sinai

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Published on February 23, 2006

Dr. Marcel Krauthammer, pulmonologist and adjunct professor of medicine for 23 years at UCLA and the Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, died from brain cancer on Jan. 17. He was 59.

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Published on December 22, 2005

Rabbi Jacob Ott, who served for 34 years at Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel, died of congestive heart failure on Saturday, Dec. 16. He was 86.

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Published on October 27, 2005

Marty Adlin died Sept. 26 at 88. He is survived by his wife, Frances; brothers Bernard (Arlene) and Sidney; and special brother-in-law, Ted Krakower.

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Published on September 29, 2005

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Published on July 28, 2005

Bertha Anapol died June 27 at 92. She is survived by her brother, Angelo; and sisters, Mae Mayer and Ruby Brest.

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Published on July 21, 2005

David Margolis, who lived and chronicled the transformation of an American hippie of the 1960s into a deeply spiritual resident of a West Bank settlement, died July 17 at the age of 62.

Rocket Threat Casts Shadow on Kibbutz

By Larry Derfner
Published on October 14, 2004

Kibbutz Nir'am, which is slightly closer to the Gaza Strip than Sderot, seemed dead that morning. The air was hot, harsh and still. Hardly anybody was outdoors.

Ethnic Cleansing in Sudan Is Still Genocide

By Ruth W. Messinger
Published on July 1, 2004

As early as March of this year, humanitarian organizations were issuing warnings of ethnic cleansing in Darfur, Sudan.

Teen Victims Tell Their Stories

By Sharon Schatz Rosenthal
Published on November 27, 2003

On June 1, 2001, Larisa Azyaski stood with her best friend Irina Nepomnyaschy among a sea of teenagers clamoring to get into the Dolphinarium, a popular Tel Aviv club. Suddenly, the place exploded. A suicide bomber detonated himself, and Azyaski saw only darkness in front of her. She felt like her head was on fire. Disoriented and separated from her friends, she walked past dozens of motionless bodies and managed to escape the chaos

Persian Jews Mourn Deaths at Market

By Mojdeh Sionit
Published on July 24, 2003

Janet Nabatian tried to answer her cellphone at the busy Santa Monica Farmers' Market July 16 at about 1:30 p.m., but the reception was so weak that she had to walk a few steps away from her mother and 7-month-old son to get better reception.

Nabatian, 32, was at the market with her child and 63-year-old mother to buy food for Shabbat. The phone call from her sister in Washington, D.C., saved her life.

Moments later, Nabatian turned her head and saw a speeding red Buick smash into her mother and the baby carriage. Nabatian stared in shock as she saw her mother, Molok Ghoulian, roll over on the ground and her son, Brandon David Esfahani, tossed into the air.

Ghoulian was killed on the spot. The baby was rushed to Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center and later transferred to UCLA Medical Center, where he died a day later from brain injuries.

Ghoulian and Brandon, members of the Persian Jewish community, were two of the 10 people killed by 86-year-old driver George Russell Weller, who lost control of his car. As of press time, Santa Monica Police had not decided on what action to take in the case.