Obituaries Oct. 4 - 25, 2012

Published on December 5, 2012

Linda Axelrod died Oct. 23 at 72. Survived by daughter Lori (Deo); sons Glenn, Guy; 3 grandchildren. Mount Sinai

What happened to Rabin’s memorial day?

By Noga Gur-Arieh
Published on October 29, 2012

Obituaries: Sep. 14-20, 2012

Published on September 12, 2012

Phillip Binen died Aug. 7 at 83. Survived by sons Jack, Perry; stepson Lawrence Bizzell. Hillside

Rogge expected to get heat at Munich 11 Jewish memorial service

Published on August 3, 2012

Jewish speakers are expected to criticize International Olympics Committee president when he attends a memorial ceremony for Israeli coaches and athletes murdered at the 1972 Munich Olympics.

Arrests made in Israeli Holocaust memorial vandalism

Published on June 26, 2012

Israeli police said on Tuesday they had arrested three ultra-Orthodox Jews on suspicion of having spray-painted anti-Zionist slogans at the national Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial two weeks ago.

Life and Death

By David Suissa
Published on June 20, 2012

For a man who runs a mortuary and memorial park that arranges about 1,500 funerals a year, Len Lawrence spends a lot of his time thinking about the living. In particular, he thinks about those who have suddenly lost a loved one and are caught completely unprepared for the many decisions that revolve around the ritual of burial.

Belarus Holocaust memorial vandalized

Published on June 4, 2012

A Holocaust memorial in eastern Belarus was vandalized.

Arthur Stern, scientist, humanitarian, peace activist, dies at 87

Published on May 30, 2012

The Los Angeles Jewish community lost one of its most distinctive and distinguished members on May 24. Arthur Stern, award-winning engineer, visionary leader, and beloved family member and friend, died at 87. In his professional life, Arthur was responsible for a stunning range of scientific breakthroughs, from his pioneering work on the first transistor radio to his significant hand in helping to develop the Global Positioning System (GPS).

Florence Zeldin, Rebbetzin of Stephen S. Wise Temple dies at 92

Published on May 30, 2012

Florence Zeldin, teacher, writer and wife of Stephen S. Wise Temple’s founding rabbi, Isaiah Zeldin, died May 20 at 92.

Budapest Holocaust memorial defaced

Published on May 25, 2012

A Holocaust Memorial on the banks of the Danube in Budapest was defaced just days after unknown vandals hung pigs’ feet on a statue of Raoul Wallenberg.

Remember and thank

By Noga Gur-Arieh
Published on April 24, 2012

A yearly reminder of the reason we are here

By Noga Gur-Arieh
Published on April 20, 2012

Memorial to Ethiopians to be built on Mount Herzl

Published on November 30, 2011

A memorial to Ethiopian Jews who died en route to Israel will be established on Mount Herzl.

Canadian gov’t funding Jewish veterans memorial

Published on November 8, 2011

Canada's government said it will help fund a memorial honoring Jewish war veterans.

Opinion: 9/11, 10 years later

By Rob Eshman
Published on September 7, 2011

When I was in New York last week, I prowled Ground Zero.

Time-lapse video showing eight years of 9/11 Memorial construction

Published on August 26, 2011

9/11 Memorial construction

Memorial to be built for Israeli New Zealand quake victims

Published on April 12, 2011

A memorial will be built in memory of the three Israelis killed in the recent earthquake in New Zealand. Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin said Monday in Christchurch that Israel would pay for the memorial to backpackers Gabi Ingel, Ofer Levi and Ofer Mizrachi, who were among the more than 165 victims of the Feb. 22 disaster.

L.A. Mourns the Fogels

By Jonah Lowenfeld
Published on March 18, 2011

Debbie Friedman: Memorial donations

By JewishJournal.com
Published on January 14, 2011

To all of Debbie’s beloved fans who have inquired about making donations in her memory: A number of years ago, Debbie established the Renewal of Spirit Foundation with the goal of manifesting her life’s work and all that she stood for. Now, donations to the Renewal of Spirit Foundation will enable the projects that Debbie was working on at the time of her death to be completed. These funds will also support future projects reflecting her passions and commitments.

Munich bids on Olympics as memorial fight continues

Published on January 12, 2011

Munich, Germany has thrown its hat into the ring to host the 2018 Winter Olympics, as widows of victims of the 1972 games massacre fight for an opening ceremonies memorial. Munich's 2018 Winter Olympics bid committee on Tuesday handed over its bid book to officials from the International Olympic Committee. If accepted it would be the first city to host both a winter and a summer games. Eleven Israeli athletes and coaches were killed when Palestinian terrorists from the Black September group broke into their barracks in the Olympic vlllage of the Munich summer games in 1972 and held them hostage. During an unsuccessful rescue attempt, all of the hostages were killed.

Hundreds memorialize songwriter Debbie Friedman

Published on January 10, 2011

Just hours after Debbie Friedman’s death, more than 400 people turned out for a memorial service for the popular songwriter who is widely credited with reinvigorating synagogue music. Friedman's funeral is scheduled for Tuesday, near Los Angeles. The memorial event, held Sunday night at the JCC in Manhattan, had been slated originally as a healing service to offer prayers for Friedman, who was hospitalized in Southern California for several days with pneumonia.

Netanyahu heckled at Carmel fire memorial

Published on January 5, 2011

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was heckled and an Israeli government minister was forced to leave a state memorial ceremony for the 44 people killed in the Carmel fire. The relatives and friends at Wednesday's memorial at Kibbutz Beit Oren, which sustained damage in the fire, allowed President Shimon Peres to speak but began heckling Netanyahu when he began his turn. Bodyguards had to protect Netanyahu as some of the hecklers advanced toward the stage. The hecklers blamed Netanyahu for the fire and their relatives' deaths.

Memorial held for Ethiopian Jews

Published on May 12, 2010

A memorial service was held for the some 4,000 Jewish Ethiopians who died making their way to Israel.

Designs sought for Jewish Babi Yar memorial

Published on April 29, 2010

The Jewish community of Ukraine has announced an international architectural contest for a memorial complex in Babi Yar.

Help Honor Stephen Tyrone Johns

By Rob Eshman
Published on June 12, 2009

Dr.Joel Geiderman Confronts Iran…and Obama?

By Rob Eshman
Published on April 25, 2009

Day at the beach—Omaha Beach

By Raphael J. Sonenshein
Published on December 11, 2008

June 6, 1944, may have been the most important day of the 20th century. The Allied invasion of France breached Hitler's Atlantic Wall and decisively turned the war against the Nazi regime.

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Published on September 17, 2008

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Published on August 14, 2008

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Published on August 7, 2008

A Zionist without quotation marks

By Dikla Kadosh
Published on July 2, 2008

Yaron Amitai was the oldest soldier killed in the Second Lebanon War. At 45, he was past the required age for army reserve duty. Amitai nevertheless volunteered to serve as a combat medic in the Paratroopers Brigade scheduled to go into Lebanon

Shul playground pays tribute to young pilot

By Roberto Loiederman
Published on June 19, 2008

At pilot school in Florida, Mark Gabriel found something that he loved and had the craving to learn. After two years of study and training, he returned to Southern California, where he worked as a co-pilot for a charter jet company

Only the best go there

By Susan Freudenheim
Published on March 10, 2008

There are moments when half a world away seems right around the corner. At Young Israel of Century City (YICC) on Sunday afternoon, Israel's pain at the murder of eight young yeshiva students burned through the Los Angeles Jewish community, just as it has in Jerusalem, where the boys lived, and as it has through Jewish communities throughout the world. The death of eight innocent boys studying Torah at Yeshiva Mercaz Harav shrunk the world.

Los Angeles area interfaith clergy visit Rome, Israel

By Orit Arfa
Published on February 7, 2008

Late last month, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 27 delegates of a weeklong interfaith mission from greater Los Angeles gathered in a circle at Yad Vashem's Valley of Communities, a monument carved out of bedrock to honor Jewish communities obliterated in the Holocaust. The cold morning foreshadowed the upcoming Jerusalem snowstorm, and the leaders representing Jewish, Catholic, Protestant and Muslim denominations warmed one another with words of conciliation and prayer, countering the chilly air and the chilling images of Jewish genocide they had seen a few moments earlier at the Yad Vashem museum.

ADL national youth conference inspires and empowers

By Dani Bahrynian
Published on January 31, 2008

On an overcast afternoon in Washington, D.C., sitting with about 120 other high school students from around the country, I listened to the empowering words of Holocaust survivor Henry Greenbaum as he described his experiences in a Nazi concentration camp. Greenbaum was speaking during the Anti-Defamation League's (ADL) 10th annual National Youth Leadership Mission, which took place over a four-day period in our nation's capital.

Briefs: Groundbreaking for Holocaust Museum, finally

Published on January 31, 2008

After 47 years of waiting for a permanent home, everything seems to be moving quickly now for the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust. Museum officials and an impressive list of L.A. politicos broke ground Jan. 25 on the museum's future home at Pan Pacific Park, joined by the survivors who founded the first memorial of its kind in the United States nearly five decades ago.

Not everyone forgot Jews in Shoah, Polish official says

By Tom Tugend
Published on January 24, 2008

"During the Holocaust, not everyone abandoned the Jews. Not everyone forgot about you."


So spoke Poland's Undersecretary of State Ewa Junczyk-Ziomecka, and her words were backed by the photos and stories of 21 surviving non-Jews from Poland recognized as Righteous Among the Nations that lined the hallway at the UCLA Hillel Center.

African-American pilots over Auschwitz

By Rafael Medoff
Published on January 17, 2008

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.

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Published on January 17, 2008

Obituaries, December 7 - 22.

Beyond Remembrance

By David Suissa
Published on April 26, 2007

So when I see hundreds of millions of dollars being poured into Holocaust memorials and Holocaust remembrance, I see an unspeakable tragedy for my people, yes, but I also see a missed opportunity. I see this enormous effort to tell us how Jews die, but so little effort to tell us how Jews live -- more specifically, to tell us what is so extraordinary about this Judaism that those 6 million Jews died for.

Death in the Hood

By David Suissa
Published on February 22, 2007

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.

Marilyn Harran: A Modern Righteous Gentile

By Marc Ballon
Published on December 28, 2006

Looking forward, Harran dreams of establishing a visiting scholars' program at the university and growing the Holocaust library's small collection, although raising the needed money might prove difficult, she said, given her distaste for fundraising.

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council distances itself from Prager

By James Besser
Published on December 21, 2006

Leaders of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, ensnared in a raging controversy over one of its members, this week moved to distance themselves from the cause of the furor.

Transcript of David Grossman’s speech at the Rabin memorial

Published on November 9, 2006

... I am speaking here tonight as a person whose love for the land is overwhelming and complex, and yet it is unequivocal, and as one whose continuous covenant with the land has turned his personal calamity into a covenant of blood.

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Published on October 5, 2006

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Al Qaeda urges Israel attacks; Israeli Arab lawmakers represent Hamas in court

Published on September 14, 2006

Al Qaeda urges Israel attacks; Israeli Arab lawmakers represent Hamas in court; Conviction in Attack on Palestinians; BBC Ordered to Release Report; British Jews Meet on Security; Trump to Observant Jew: You're Hired; Babi Yar Event to be International; Danish Newspaper Publishes Holocaust Cartoons.

Who Is A Jew?

By Rob Eshman
Published on August 10, 2006

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.

Education Giant Simha Lainer, 100

Published on August 3, 2006

From establishing funds through the Jewish Community Foundation in Los Angeles to starting the Simha and Sara Lainer Fund for Jewish Education through the BJE of Greater Los Angeles to supporting Israel, Lainer and Sara were key supporters of the Jewish community.

New U.S. Stamps Honor Friends of Jews, Israel

By Michael Berenbaum
Published on July 6, 2006

On May 30, the United States Postal Service issued a series of new stamps honoring six career State Department diplomats who earned the gratitude of this nation for taking "risks to advance humanitarianism...[and] peace," even if their actions put themselves "in harm's way."

9/11 Museum Head Uses Shoah Lessons

By Matthew E. Berger
Published on April 27, 2006

For more than two decades, Alice Greenwald has been helping to give people a palpable understanding of the Holocaust through her work with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.

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Published on March 23, 2006

Aaron "Red" Finkel, who volunteered to become one of Israel's first fighter pilots during the War of Independence, died on Feb. 23 in Woodland Hills at the age of 86.

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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

For Ilan, a Eulogy

By Judea Pearl
Published on March 16, 2006

This week marks the shloshim, the 30th day following the death of Ilan Halimi, murdered by French anti-Semites in a Paris suburb.

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Published on March 9, 2006

Rabbi Zalman Ury, Day School System Leader, Dies at 92
Rabbi Zalman Ury, who dedicated more than 50 years to building Jewish education in Los Angeles and was rabbi emeritis at Young Israel of Beverly Hills, died last month at the age of 92.

‘Paper Clips’ Continues to Link Crowds

By Meira Held
Published on March 9, 2006

Until recently, the riveting and much-acclaimed 2004 documentary, "Paper Clips" -- which chronicles the attempt by the small, rural town of Whitwell, Tenn., to educate its students about the enormous number of Jews killed in the Holocaust -- could be seen mostly at special screenings and community events. After an initial exclusive release of the DVD version to Blockbuster, as of March 7, the DVD has gone into general release so everyone can finally get a copy, which is sure to broaden the film's exposure.

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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 February 9, 2006

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My Friend, Shelley Winters

By Aaron Shohet Kemp
Published on February 2, 2006

The movie house was dark. A beautiful blonde actress smiled at me from the screen in the small Duluth, Minn., theater.

"She's Jewish," my grandma Goldie whispered as we watched "Knickerbocker Holiday."

That was my introduction to Shelley Winters, a "Jewish movie star." The very concept was inconceivable to my 7-year-old mind. Not only was she Jewish, but she kept it no secret. That was very rare in the anti-Semitic years following World War II.

Andrea Bronfman, Charity Giant, Killed

By JTA Staff
Published on January 26, 2006

Andrea Bronfman, a giant in the world of Jewish philanthropy, was killed Monday when a car struck her while she was walking her dog in Manhattan. She was 60 years old.

Proposal Advocates Shoah Forgiveness

By Joseph Hanania
Published on January 26, 2006

Oliner's personal turnabout resulted in studies, which still continue, at his Altruistic Personality and Prosocial Behavior Institute at Humboldt. From there, Oliner and his wife, Pearl, have interviewed more than 500 rescuers who risked everything to save others, while seeking no personal reward.