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2013 | In Memoriam

 

Morris Trachten

morris trachtenMorris N. Trachten, a leading Connecticut Jewish philanthropist, died May 8 in Palm Beach County, Fla.  He was 87. A native of New Haven, Trachten was known as a generous philanthropist throughout the state and in Israel, especially in those areas of Jewish life that he cared most about – synagogue life, Jewish education, and the mikvah.

Arik Einstein

arik_einstein_p“We all grew up on his songs. You said, ‘Arik Einstein,’ and you said, ‘the Land of Israel,’” said Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a statement following the death of legendary Israeli singer/songwriter Arik Einstein. Einstein died on Nov. 26 at the age of 74.

 

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef

ovadia yosefRabbi Ovadia Yosef, former chief Sephardi rabbi of Israel and the spiritual leader of the Orthodox Shas party, died Oct. 7 in Jerusalem. He was 93 years old. One of its foremost Talmudic scholars and halachic authorities, Yosef penned dozens of books and was awarded the 1955 Rabbi Kook Prize for religious Literature, as well as the 1970 Israel Prize for Religious Literature.

 

Max Kampelman

Photo by Bridget BrownMax M. Kampelman, a lawyer and diplomat who served as ambassador and head of the U.S. delegation to the negotiations on nuclear and space arms in Geneva, died Jan. 28 in Washington, D.C. He was 92.

 

Ron Nachman

ron-nachman-lgRon Nachman, a former member of Knesset and the mayor of the Samarian town of Ariel, died on Jan. 18 at the age of 70. In 1978, Nachman helped establish Ariel, which today boasts a population of about 20,000 people, making it one of the Israel’s largest West Bank cities.

 

Ed Koch

ed kochEd Koch, the charismatic and outspoken jewish political personality who served as mayor of New York City from 1978-1989, died of heart failure on Feb. 1. He was 88.

Pauline Phillips

pauline phillipsPauline Phillips, born Pauline Esther Friedman, and known to millions around the world for her advice column “Dear Abby,” died in January at the age of 94, after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer’s disease.

 

Rabbi David Hartman

david hartmanRabbi David Hartman, a prominent Jewish philosopher of contemporary Judaism, died Feb. 10 at the age of 81.  Considered to be a pillar of liberal Orthodox Judaism and a strong promoter of Jewish pluralism and inclusion, Hartman was also founder of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem.

 

Sara Dratch

sara dratch BWSara Lamm Dratch, wife of Rabbi Mark S. Dratch, executive vice president of the Rabbinical Council of America, died Feb. 28 after a brief illness. She was the youngest child of Mindella and Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm, former chancellor and Rosh HaYeshiva of Yeshiva University and its affiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary.  Her husband is the former spiritual leader of Congregation Agudath Sholom in Stamford.

 

Oscar Schectman

oscar schectmanOscar “Ossie” Schectman, a Jewish player who scored the first basket in the history of what evolved into the National Basketball Association (NBA), died July 30 at age 94.

 

HarryRomanowitz

Dr_Harry_RomanowitzHarry S. Romanowitz, MD, pediatrician, mohel and an active member of the Stamford Jewish community, died Feb. 27 of a hemorrhagic stroke. He was 64.

 

Eydie Gorme

gormeobit3-popupPop vocalist Eydie Gorme, whose career spanned five decades and was more famous for her duet performances with her husband Steve Lawrence, died in Las Vegas on Aug. 10 at the age of 84.

Leon Leyson

leon leysonLeon Leyson, the youngest among the 1,100 Jews saved by German industrialist Oskar Schindler during World War II, died in January at his home in southern California.  He was 83.

Jonah Meadows Adels

Jonah-Meadows-Adels-zlYale School of Forestry student Jonah Meadows Adels died on Oct. 2 of injuries sustained in a car accident this past summer while doing fieldwork on trees. He is remembered by the Yale community as a jubilant educator, farmer, music maker and storyteller.

 

Joseph Friedenson

Friedenson-030113Joseph “Yossel” Friedenson, longtime editor of the monthly Yiddish-language Dos Yiddishe Vort (The Jewish Word) journal published by Agudath Israel of America, died Feb. 23 in New York at the age of 93.

Frank Lautenberg

frank lautenbergLongtime New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg, died June 3 at age 89 of complications from viral pneumonia.  Connecticut’s former Senator Joe Lieberman called him “A dynamic activist on behalf of freedom.”

 

Rabbi Hershel Fogelman

rabbi hershel fogelmanRabbi Hershel Fogelman, the longest serving Chabad-Lubavitch emissary, who led the growth of Jewish life in Massachusetts, died on June 2 at the age of 91.

 

 

 

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