Tag: Obituary
Rene Sportes
It is with deep sadness that we inform you of the passing of
Rene Sportes Z"L
Wife: Vida
Children: Denise (David) Hanono, Mike (Maggie) Sportes,
Grandchildren: Branon (Kayla), Alex (Leah), Michael, and Rene and
Great-grandchildren: Jack and Lexi.
The funeral...
Biden: ‘Howard Fineman one of the great journalists of our time’
Following the death of American journalist and commentator Howard Fineman on June 11, U.S. President Joe Biden released a statement honoring the career of the longtime writer.
“Great journalists hold a mirror up to the nation to...
Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, 74, instrumental in Chabad’s global expansion
Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, the energetic vice chairman of Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch—the educational arm of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement—died after a lengthy illness on June 4. He was 74 years old, four days shy of his...
Marc Klein, pioneering editor and journalist in California, dies at 75
Marc Klein, who fought to protect independent Jewish journalism in the San Francisco Bay Area, died on May 25 from the complications of a transplant-related cancer. He was 75 years old.
For 28 years, he...
Joe Lieberman, longtime senator and first Jewish-American VP candidate, dies at 82
Former Sen. Joe Lieberman died on Wednesday afternoon at the age of 82 after complications from a fall, according to a statement from his family.
“Senator Lieberman’s love of God, his family and America endured...
Former Mossad chief Zvi Zamir dies at 98
Zvi Zamir, the fourth director of Israel's Mossad national intelligence agency, died in Tel Aviv on Jan. 2. He was 98 years old.
Born Zvicka Zarzevsky in 1925 in Lodz, Poland, Zamir immigrated to Israel...
Isaac Arazi Z’L, 80, head of ‘tiny’ Jewish community in Lebanon
The octogenarian former president of the about 30-strong Jewish community in Lebanon, who had sought to conserve the abandoned Magen Avraham synagogue in central Beirut, died on Dec. 27 and was buried the same...
Biden’s statement on Kissinger’s passing appears to be his tersest official condolences yet
On June 19, 2021, U.S. President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, released a 199-word statement on “the Passing of their beloved German shepherd Champ.”
The statement Biden issued on Nov. 30—hours after U.S. Secretary of...