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Betty Cornman Manis passed away Oct. 24, 2018, at the age of 90. Born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, she graduated from Newcomb College with a degree in biology and worked as a researcher. Betty met her husband, Norman, when he visited the city on vacation and they were set up on a blind date. They married soon after and she moved to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, where she embraced the city as her home. Betty was actively involved in many charitable organizations, including Service League of Fond du Lac, where she served as president. She was...
Ruth Mogul, age 85, of Maitland, passed away on Monday, Oct. 15, 2018, at her residence. A native of Boston, Massachusetts, Ruth was born on May 7, 1933, to the late Hyman and Jenny Chvenka Rich. Ruth and her husband, Max, who survives her, relocated to the Orlando area from Boston in 1959. The family are long-time members of Congregation Ohev Shalom. Ruth was a successful businesswoman, owning a retail knitting store for many years. In addition to her husband, Ruth is survived by her daughters, Janet (Tracy) King of Orlando and Lynda Mogul of...
Submitted by the family Helen Moskowitz, age 93, of Miami and formerly of Orlando, passed away on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018. She was born on March 4, 1925, in Bronx, New York, to William and Kate Schoenberg. Her husband of 54 years, Arthur, predeceased her in 2006. Her brother, Julian Schoenberg, passed away in 1993. Helen was a retired L.P.N.; member of Congregation Ohev Shalom; Life Member of Hadassah; member of Chevrah Kadisha of Central Florida. She was also a member of the Bikur Cholim Committee of Ohev visiting patients in hospitals and nurs...
Jean Rhubin, age 69, of Ocoee, passed away on Oct.12, 2018, at Cornerstone Hospice at Orlando Regional Medical Center. Jean was born on Jan. 18, 1949, in Troy, New York, to the late John and Dolrus Golden. She received her bachelor’s degree from Albany State University and her master’s degree from SUNY. For many years she worked as a Registered Nurse. On May 24, 1970, in Schenectady, she married Robert M. Rhubin, her husband of over 48 years who survives her. In 2002, Jean and Bob relocated to Clermont from New York and joined Congregation Sin...
Neil Currier, age 55, of Sanford, passed away on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018. Neil was born in Newport, Wales, United Kingdom, on June 8, 1963, to Bryan and Joan Currier. He earned a degree Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and was a commercial airline pilot. Neil relocated to the Orlando area in 2008 from Los Angeles where he was a founding member of the Airline Pilots Association for Jet Blue Airlines. He is survived by his wife, Renee, whom he married on Jan. 31, 2009, and his two children, Christopher and Ava. He is also survived by his...
Renee M. Fischer, age 88, of Orlando, passed away on Monday, Oct. 8, 2018, at Orlando Regional Medical Center. She was born in Brooklyn on March 10, 1933, to the late Alexander and Ida (Irene) Beck Zuckman. On March 8, 1959, in Brooklyn, she married Calvin Fischer, her husband of nearly 60 years, who survives her. Renee held several different positions during her working career, however, she is remembered with great fondness by the faculty, staff and students of Yeshiva Har Torah in New York. In January 2015, she and her family relocated to...
Marilyn B. Frankel, age 70, of Celebration, passed away on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018, at her residence. A native of Brooklyn, New York, she was born on Oct.13, 1947. Marilyn received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the former Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, now New York University School of Engineering. A computer analyst, Marilyn retired from NYNEX (now Verizon) and entered into a business partnership with her dear friend and colleague, Carl Gehr. They worked together for a number of years as consultants in the computer industry pre...
Submitted by his wife, Linda Kwastel Bernard (Bernie) Kwastel, 76, passed away on Sept. 30, 2018. He was born in the Bronx, N.Y. to Rubin and Fayette (Breznick) Kwastel on Dec. 31, 1941. He was married for 53 years to Linda (Hirsch) Kwastel, who survives him, and has one son, Bradley (Jessica). Bernie was in sales most of his life. He served in the Air Force, and in New York, he was a long-standing member of the order of Oddfellows. Bernie was an avid stamp collector who loved cruising and visiting different countries. He read constantly and...
Toby Gaterbaum, age 88, of Altamonte Springs, passed away on Monday, Oct. 1, 2018, at Florida Hospital Winter Park. A native of Poland, she immigrated to the United States and lived in New York until relocating from Brooklyn to the Orlando area in 1990. Toby was a homemaker and was the widow of the late Jose Gaterbaum who passed away in June 2007, after 56 years of marriage. Toby is survived by her son Dr. Carl Gaterbaum of Maitland, and her daughter, Barbara Kostrin of Altamonte Springs. She is also survived by her sister, Rose Parker, of Ft....
(JNS)-Thousands of people gathered at the Kfar Etzion cemetery just before midnight on Sunday to eulogize and lay to rest Ari Fuld, a 45-year-old father of four living in Judea whose fight against the terrorist who stabbed him earlier in the day earned him acclaim throughout the country as a hero. "You were a good man. I'm not sure how to go on without you," Fuld's wife, Miriam, said at the funeral. "You were always running towards danger instead of away from it, and you never backed down from...
Susan L. Spiwak, age 71, of Orlando, passed away on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018, at Cornerstone Hospice at Orlando Health. She was born on Jan. 24, 1947, in Baltimore, Maryland, to the late Arnold and Evelyn Whitehouse Landau. Susan grew up in Baltimore and graduated from the University of Maryland with her bachelor’s degree. She also earned Certifications in Special Education and Pre-School Education. On May 26, 1976, Susan married Norman Spiwak, her husband of over 42 years who survives her. In June 1990, the family relocated to the Orlando a...
Ari Fuld, 45, was stabbed to death by a Palestinian terrorist outside the Gush Etzion shopping mall on Sunday. Fuld was standing in the parking lot when the terrorist stabbed him from behind. Fuld drew his weapon and gave chase after the terrorist, who ran toward the entrance of the mall. Fuld and another civilian shot and wounded the terrorist before he collapsed. Through their courageous actions, they prevented a much larger attack. He was taken to Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem in...
Written by his family Sheldon Greene of Orlando passed away Saturday, Sept. 8, 2018, at the age of 92. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was preceded by his first wife Ruth, who passed away in November1987, and his second wife Susan Murfin last November 2017. Sheldon attended Temple University and following his service in the United States Air Force, Sheldon graduated from the University of Miami with a degree in accounting. In 1951 Sheldon married Ruth and in 1954 they moved to Orlando where he went into the building and...
David B. Hayt, age 87, of Lake Mary, passed away on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018, at Florida Hospital Altamonte Springs. A son of the late Emanuel and Lillian Greenwald Hayt, David was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on June 14, 1931. David was a captain in the United States Air Force and graduated from Cornell University and the Cornell University Medical School. He was a radiologist. He and his late wife, Maxine, who passed away in December 2017, relocated to the Orlando area in 2013 from New York. He is survived by his sons, Dr. Michael (Nancy) Hayt of...
Sondra K. Pritchard, age 81, of Apopka, passed away on Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018, at Westminster Towers in Winter Park. Born in Augusta, Georgia, she was a daughter of the late Mose and Ida Shapiro Karesh. A widow, she was a hospital radiology technician, and is survived by her daughter, Marsha Stein of Apopka. Funeral services and interment were held in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Arrangements entrusted to Beth Shalom Memorial Chapel, 640 Lee Road, Orlando FL 32810. 407-599-1180....
Madeline Kurzrock Phillips Wolly, of Longwood, Fla., passed away on Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018, at age 93. Madeline was born in New York City to Bertha and Michael Kurzrock. She attended NYU for college and then went on to earn two masters degrees in elementary education, and reading and special education. She was an avid volunteer in many organizations throughout the years including: Public schools' Addictions, the Green Circle tolerance program in the schools, Orlando Science Center docents, March...
(JTA)-Playwright Neil Simon, known for such Broadway hits as "The Odd Couple," "Barefoot in the Park" and "Lost in Yonkers," has died. Simon, who earned a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award, died Saturday, Aug. 26, at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City from complications with pneumonia at the age of 91. No writer of non-musical comedies was more successful in the second half of the 20th century, and no one else so frequently, successfully nor wittily, plumbed the anxieties of middle-cl...
WASHINGTON (JTA)-Princeton Lyman, the Jewish American diplomat who played a critical role in organizing Operation Moses, the stunning 1984 airlift of Ethiopian Jews, has died at 82. Lyman died Friday at his home in the Washington suburb of Silver Spring, Maryland, the Washington Post reported. He died of lung cancer. The Post obituary celebrated the role of Lyman in helping to midwife the transition in South Africa from apartheid to democracy in the early 1990s when he was the U.S. ambassador...
Submitted by Paul Grossman’s family Paul A. Grossman of Longwood passed away Sunday, July 29, 2018, at the age of 83. He was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. He was predeceased by his mother, Sylvia Schluger Grossman, who died when he was six years old, and his parents, Henry and Sylvia Schwartz Grossman, who raised him. After graduating from Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., he moved to Plainview, N.Y., where he pursued a career in sales. In 1969, he relocated to Maitland, Fla. Paul was a strong supporter of Jewish Family Services, a...
Lewis N. Goldman, age 68, of Winter Park, passed away at his residence on Monday, Aug. 20, 2018. He was a son of the late Morris and Ida Grubert Goldman, and was born in Brookline, Mass., on Feb. 19, 1950. He is survived by his brother, Martin, of Sorrento. Funeral services and interment were held at Shara Tfilo Cemetery in West Roxbury, Mass. Arrangements entrusted to Beth Shalom Memorial Chapel, 640 Lee Road, Orlando FL 32810. 407-599-1180....
Naomi (Bobbi) Ava Jackson Wise, 86, died on Aug. 21, 2018. She was born in New Rochelle, N.Y., on July 25, 1932, to the late Louis and Fanny Jackson. Bobbi Wise was a beautiful woman of boundless energy and optimism. She was a loyal friend, an avid reader, and a consummate hostess who relished international travel. She grew up in Bethesda, Maryland, where she lived until moving to Miami Beach in her last year of high school. A graduate of the University of Florida School of Journalism, she...
Myrtle Rebecca Skop Rutberg, who loved all things American, and all things Jewish, passed away Saturday evening, Aug. 8, 2018, one month shy of her 107th birthday. Her achievements in life were many. She sometimes founded and was a member of numerous civic and religious organizations, and was named person of the year at Congregation Ohev Shalom, where she worshiped for over 80 years. Her honors over a lifetime were many and varied. Myrtle learned to drive at age 40, and drove well into her 90s....
Alan B. Berman, an architect responsible for scores of prominent Central Florida buildings, passed away on Aug. 10, 2018. For nearly four decades, starting in 1960-a period of rapid growth in Central Florida-Berman designed homes, office buildings, shopping centers, and hotels. His keen sense of design was put to use by several of the regions most successful real estate developers. "Alan was a very talented architect and human being," said James Russell, a retired developer. "He made great use...
Zachary “Zach” Farber, age 85, of Apopka, passed away at Life Care Center of Altamonte Springs on Saturday, Aug. 11, 2018. Born in Scranton, Penn., on July 25, 1933, he was the son of Julius and Lila Seidman Farber. Zach was a graduate of the University of Scranton and served in the United States Army. He was the owner of Short Stop Services—a transportation company. He was a former member of the Central Florida Chevra Kaddisha and a regular attendee at the morning minyan. The family has been long time members of Temple Israel. Zach is survi...
Joan Galin, age 94, of Herndon, Va., and formerly of Orlando, passed away at her residence on Monday, Aug. 13, 2018. Mrs. Galin was born on Aug. 13, 1924, in Umarra, New South Wales, Australia, to the late Frederick Walter Johnson and Edna Moore Johnson. She was a homemaker and the widow of the late Arthur H. Galin, who passed away in 1984. Mrs. Galin is survived by her daughter, Deborah Lynne Sanders (David A Radtke) of Herndon, Va.; and her sons, Gregory Bruce Galin of Cape Canaveral and Nelson D. Flack of Hawaii. She is also survived by her...
