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, accidentally hit and killed a 7-year-old black child, (more…)
Categories: Activists · Child · Parent · Young · martyrs
Tagged: 1991, brooklyn, cato, chabad, crown-heights, death, dinkins, giuliani, Jewish, kings-county, obituary, pogrom, rebbe, rosenbaum, stab, yankel
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. (more…)
Categories: Businesspeople · Europeans · Israelis · Young
Tagged: blue hole, death, diving, jerusalem, Jewish, obituary, pardes, scuba, sinai
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 (more…)
Categories: Alzheimers · Americans · Artists · Athletes · Businesspeople · Cancer · Celebrities · Europeans · Hollywood · Holocaust Victims · Israelis · Lawyers · Musicians · Parent · Scientists · Writers · Young · new york · reminiscence
Tagged: death, Jewish, obituaries
Jewish memories this week on 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
Categories: In My Heart
Tagged: death, Jewish, Veterans
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 features of Jewish individuals from all walks of life.
In the runup to the launching of our site, we will be blogging here about the individuals who have passed on in recent days, as well as those whose yahrzeit/אזכרה (death anniversary date) is timely.
We are doing this to honor Jewish lives, to keep them from being lost, and to provide a central place on the Internet for this information. Some of this information is out there – but it’s difficult to find. Much of it is not appearing anywhere else. We are going to need you to help us. Send us names, dates, and details. Help us tell the stories of lives that should not be forgotten.
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Tagged: death, In My Heart, Jewish, obituary
