Posted on January 7, 2008 by balev
Max Rosenbaum, 85, whose life was changed irrevocably after his son’s 1991 death in race riots in Brooklyn, N.Y.’s Crown Heights neighborhood, died Friday, Jan. 3, 2007, of a heart attack in Melbourne, Australia.
Yankel Rosenbaum, 29, was killed in riots that started after a driver in the entourage of the Lubavitcher rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, [...]
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Posted on December 18, 2007 by balev
Robert Dov HaEzrachi (Wieckowski), 44, a Polish-born Israeli and scuba diving guide and instructor, died in a diving accident at Dahab, Sinai, Egypt, Dec. 13, 2007.
HaEzrachi’s death was first announced on the website of Pardes Institute, a Jewish studies center in Jerusalem, where he had been a student from 2003-2005.
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Posted on December 14, 2007 by balev
Reminiscences
Remembering my father, Michael H. Abbey, 27 years later
Remembering Harvey Milk, gay activist, assassin’s victim
Obituaries
Karen Elizabeth Margalit, 29, U.S., Israel, Sept. 26
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Posted on November 16, 2007 by balev
Jewish memories this week on In My Heart:
What is In My Heart
Yeshayahu Ben Porat, Israeli journalist, 80, Nov. 10
Norman Mailer, 84, U.S. author, Nov. 10
November Jewish deaths (Part 1): Rabin, Kern, Capp, Kahane
Ira Levin, 78, U.S. thriller author, Nov. 12
Wynne Littman, 66, U.S. jeweler, Nov. 13
Jewish U.S. WW II veterans honored
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Posted on November 12, 2007 by balev
In My Heart will be the premier online portal for Jewish obituaries, tributes and memorials. The site - in Hebrew and in English - will provide a safe and protected space to honor Jewish lives, both prominent and everyday.
We will be seeking contributions from the public, as well as writing original, journalistic news obituaries and [...]
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