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Obituary - JAMES STUART GRODIN
Submitted by his family James Stuart Grodin, known to all as Jim, passed away on Oct. 13, 2019. Jim was born on Dec. 11, 1945, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Florence (Smith) and Edward Grodin. He...
Obituary - RUTH E. MILLER
Ruth E. Miller, 85, of Winter Park, Fla., was born Oct. 24, 1933 and passed away Oct. 8, 2019. She moved to The Villages, Fla., from Las Vegas in 2007 and in 2013 to Winter Park. Mrs. Miller enjoyed...
Obituary - ALBERT MOSSERI
ALBERT “Al” Mosseri, age 71, of Lake Mary, passed away on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2019, at Orlando Regional Medical Center. He was born on May 18, 1948, in Cairo, Egypt, a son of the late Maurice and Alice Wahba Mosseri. The family immigrated to the...
Obituary - FLORENCE PEARL PEIPER
Submitted by the family Florence “Fagy” Pearl Peiper (nee Jeff), age 99, of Palm Springs, Calif., and formerly of Orlando, passed away peacefully at Palm Springs Health Care and Rehab Center on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019. An Ohio native, she was born...
Obituary - BARBARA GATERBAUM KOSSTRIN
Barbara Kosstrin, age 67, of Altamonte Springs, passed away on Friday, Sept. 20, 2019, at AdventHealth Hospice in Altamonte Springs. She was born on Dec. 11, 1951, in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of the late Jose and Tauba Frejman Gaterbaum....
Obituary - SHIRLEY WEISS MICHAEL
Submitted by her family Shirley Michael, age 85, of Maitland, passed away on Friday, Sept. 20, 2019, at Weinstein Hospice in Atlanta, with her loving family by her side. Shirley was born on Jan. 2, 1934, in Cleveland, Ohio. She was a beacon of...
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Pioneering journalist Cokie Roberts, who with her husband wrote about their interfaith marriage, dies
(JTA)-Cokie Roberts, a pioneering journalist who with her husband wrote an interfaith Haggadah and published a book about their interfaith marriage, has died. Roberts was one of the few female voices...
Obituary - ADAM BENJAMIN
Adam Benjamin, age 72, of Poinciana, passed away peacefully surrounded by his family on Friday, evening, Sept. 13, 2019, at Osceola Regional Medical Center. A native of Rome, Italy, Adam was born on March 21, 1947, to the late Izrael and Margaret...
Obituary - DR. MARK S. COOPERSTEIN
Mark Steven Cooperstein, 73, of Orlando, passed away on Sunday morning, Sept. 8, 2019, at Dr. P. Phillips Hospital. Dr. Cooperstein was born on Sept. 1, 1946, in Philadelphia to the late Charles and Beatrice Rosen Cooperstein. He was raised in...
Obituary - IVA ROSILAND BAUMSTEIN
Iva Rosiland Baumstein (nee Bernstein), known to her family and friends as "Roz" or "Rozie," passed away quietly on Sunday, Sept. 1, 2019, at the age of 92. She was born on March 16, 1927, in St....
Obituary - JOHN S. BLUM
John Salomon “Johnny” Blum, age 69, of Winter Garden, passed away peacefully at AdventHealth Hospice in Altamonte Springs on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019. Johnny was born on Nov. 13, 1949, in Sousa, Dominican Republic, the son of Hella Dora Codik and...
Obituary - SYLVIA STONE
Sylvia Stone, age 92, of Winter Park, passed away on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019, at Regents Park Health Care Center in Winter Park. A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Sylvia and her late husband, Simon, whom she married in April 1946, relocated to the...
Israeli student found stabbed
JERUSALEM (JTA)-A 19-year-old yeshiva student was found stabbed to death in the West Bank's Etzion settlement bloc. Dvir Sorek of the Ofra settlement was reported missing on Wednesday evening, hours...
Richard Stone, Florida's first Jewish senator since Civil War, dies at 90
(JTA)—Richard Stone, Florida’s first Jewish senator since the Civil War and an adviser on the Camp David Peace Accords, has died. Stone died on Sunday at the age of 90, his son-in-law Joel...
Obituary - GEORGE CARL GOODMAN
George C. Goodman, age 84, of Orlando, passed away on Saturday, July 27, 2019, at Encore at Avalon Park. A native of Providence, Rhode Island, he was born on Jan. 7, 1935, to the late Charles and Hilda Deluty Goodman. He married the former Marcia...
IAEA chief Yukiya Amano dies at 72, oversaw Iran nuclear deal
(JNS)-The director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano, died at the age of 72, announced the agency on Monday, July 22. Amano led the nuclear watchdog since 2009 and oversaw the...
Obituary - GLADYS FRIEDMAN PAULIN
Written by Sheila Reback Gladys Friedman Paulin, 80, died Wednesday, July 17, 2019, in Winter Park, Florida. She was born in Cortland, New York, daughter of Norma C. and John C. Friedman. Gladys spent her childhood in Auburn, New York. She received...
Phyllis Schulman Kamenoff dies at 94
Phyllis Schulman Kamenoff, age 94, of Altamonte Springs, passed away on Sunday, July 7, 2019, at AdventHealth Hospice at Island lake. She was born on Oct. 28, 1924, in Springfield, Mass., one of two...
Artur Brauner, German-Jewish producer of 'Europa Europa' and other major films, dies at 100
(JTA)-German-Jewish film producer Artur Brauner, whose award-winning films include "The Garden of the Finzi-Continis" and "Europa Europa," has died at the age of 100. Brauner, who died Sunday in...
Arnie Sager, salvage-sales guru, dies at age 86
Former Winter Park and Longwood resident, Arnold "Arnie" Irving Sager, passed away at the age of 86 on Tuesday, July 2, 2019 in Danvers, Mass. Sager was born Oct. 11, 1932 to the late Bessie and...
Novelist Judith Krantz dies at 91
(JTA)-Judith Krantz, one of the best-selling female novelists of all time, has died. Krantz died on Saturday at her home in Bel Air, California at the age 91, Deadline reported. According to the...
St. Augustine Jewish Historical Society mourns the death of Rabbi Richard Levy
Just 72 hours after the St. Augustine Jewish Historical Society marked the 55th anniversary of the largest mass arrest of rabbis in U.S. history, Rabbi Richard Levy, one of the 16 rabbis arrested,...
Mohamed Morsi dead at 67
(JNS)-Former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi died on Monday, June 17, 2019, at the age of 67 after passing out during a court session. The Muslim Brotherhood member led Egypt from 2012, following...
Obituary - EDWARD OKUN
Dr. Edward Okun, 87, a world-renowned retina specialist, gallery owner and artist, died from complications of cancer on June 14, 2019. He was the beloved husband of Barbara (Braham) Okun, to whom he...
Obituary - DANIEL BACHRACH
Daniel Bachrach, 85, of Winter Park, passed away on Tuesday, June 11, 2019, at AdventHealth Hospice—Orlando. Born in Newark, New Jersey, he was the son of the late Louis and Jeanette Nichauser Bachrach. He served as a Navy airman in Korea and...
