A son, Miles Russell Tauber, was born March 27, 2020 to Alex and Zach Tauber of Los Angeles, California. Grandparents are Tracy and Michael Levy of Tucson, and Beth and Sheldon Tauber of Chandler, Arizona. Great-grandparents are Reva and Don Levy of Palm Desert, California, and Paul Zatulove of Phoenix.… Read more »
David Stoler, 74, died May 2, 2020. Born July 23, 1945, in Helsinki, Finland, Mr. Stoler worked at Territorial Newspapers for 30 years, and retired early enough to enjoy life traveling, biking, and spending time with his family. Survivors include his wife, Nancy; son, Marc (Noaa) of West Caldwell,… Read more »
Hyman Bolotin, 91, died April 18, 2020. Born on Dec. 11, 1928 in Chicago, Mr. Bolotin had a varied career in quality assurance in electronics and metal manufacturing. After retiring to Tucson in 1990, he enjoyed many years with his wife Gloria, often at their favorite coffee shop and… Read more »
Rabbi Yehuda Ceitlin (Britta Van Vranken) Jewish communities have a custom of reading the Book of Ruth on the holiday of Shavuot, which commemorates the receiving of the Torah on Mount Sinai. It is not an obvious selection. The Talmudist Rabbi Zeira asked, “This scroll does not contain the laws of impurity or purity, prohibitions or… Read more »
Rabbi Israel Becker As I was praying alone in my study this Passover, words I had been saying my entire life suddenly popped out of the siddur: “We have been exiled from our land. We are unable to serve you in your Holy House.” We also are experiencing an exile, from our… Read more »
A daughter, Stav Adar Singer Hurvitz, was born Feb. 21, 2020, to Emily Singer Hurvitz and Yaron Hurvitz in Irvine, California. Grandparents are Shelley and Steve Singer of Tucson and Mickey and the late Udi Hurvitz of Ramat HaSharon, Israel. Stav is also welcomed by her big brother, Aviv.… Read more »
William S. “Sandy” Louchheim, Jr. of Los Angeles, 89, died April 14, 2020. After graduating from Yale University, Mr. Louchheim joined the Navy in 1952. He and his wife, Marlene, married in October of that year. He spent 16 years in the Navy, commanding two ships and retiring as… Read more »
Marcia Sue Edberg, 83, of Henderson, Nevada, died April 7, 2020. Mrs. Edberg was born in Brooklyn, New York, on April 1, 1937 to Shirley and Irv Ostroy. She moved with her family to Tucson at the age of 9. She lived in Tucson for 45 years, then moved… Read more »
Manya Tepelboym, 91, died April 6, 2020. Mrs. Tepelboym, a Holocaust survivor, was born in Proskurov, Ukraine, on Dec. 31, 1928. She was 12 years old when World War II started. After the war, she went on to become an accountant for the City of Starokonstantinov, where she met… Read more »
Mary Wezelman died March 21, 2020, three weeks before her 99th birthday. Mrs. Wezelman was born in Klintsy, Russia, on April 9, 1921, to Baruch Meyer Wolfson and Anna (Feinman) Wolfson. Her family came to the United States in 1923, settling in Omaha, Nebraska. She married Norman Wezelman in… Read more »
Stuart Gellman died April 3, 2020, in Philadelphia. A Philadelphia native, Mr. Gellman was an author, public relations consultant, and advocate of victims’ rights. He attended Germantown High School, where he was sports editor of the newspaper and stringer for The Evening Bulletin. After graduation, he worked weekends on… Read more »
Have you ever been engrossed in your phone, and then your phone dies, leaving you feeling at a loss? The office we run out of the door to in the mornings no longer needs us there. The big dinner we are getting a babysitter for has been postponed. The vacation… Read more »
Ken Goodman, Ph.D., 92, died March 12, 2020. A reading researcher and professor emeritus at the University of Arizona, Dr. Goodman was considered the founding father of the whole language approach to reading. He spent his earliest years in Chicago, moving to Detroit when he was 7 and graduating… Read more »
Patricia Brish, 81, of Marquette, Michigan, and Sun City West, Arizona, died Feb. 20, 2020, in Tucson. Mrs. Brish was born in Warsaw, Poland, to Rachela and Hermann Kühl on Jan. 16, 1939. As a Jewish toddler during the Holocaust, she survived because her mother bought papers claiming they… Read more »
Betty Jane Cohen Goldberg, 93, died Feb. 8, 2020. Mrs. Goldberg was born in Chicago to Sanford and Ada Cohen. She and her husband, Marvin, retired to Palm Bay, Florida. Mrs. Goldberg was predeceased by her husband, Marvin; sister, Mercedes Abrams; and son-in-law, Rob Goncharsky. Survivors include her children,… Read more »
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — Daniel Azulay, one of Brazil’s most prominent children’s artists and educators, died March 27 at 72 in Rio de Janeiro. Azulay was being treated for leukemia when he contracted the coronavirus. Azulay was the creator of “Turma do Lambe-Lambe,” a group of children’s characters… Read more »
We’re creating space to mourn Jews who are lost to the coronavirus at a time when Jewish mourning practices are nearly impossible to observe. If you’ve lost someone dear to you, we invite you to share their story with us using this form. Maurice Berger, 63, was a noted… Read more »
YetYeta Bart Weston, 104, died March 4, 2020. Mrs. Weston was the oldest of three girls born in Brooklyn, New York to Ester and Laser Bart. She and her husband, Dr. Aaron S. Weston, who predeceased her in 2008, spent their first 80-plus years in New York. Aaron practiced… Read more »
Rabbi Yossie Shemtov Two thousand five hundred years ago, Haman — then prime minister of the Persian Empire — succeeded in convincing King Ahasuerus to issue a decree to destroy the Jews throughout the land. Following the issuance of this decree, Haman and his comrades went strolling with jovial hearts and encountered the… Read more »
Shane Preston Glesinger, son of Dr. April Glesinger and Jeff Glesinger, will celebrate becoming a b’nai mitzvah with his cousin Brady Bayard on March 7 at Temple Solel in Cardiff by the Sea, California. He is the grandson of Sue and Sonny Ross of Tucson and Jan and the late Jerry… Read more »
