Posted on: April 3rd, 2013

Rabbi James Diamond, the retired director of Princeton University’s Center for Jewish Life, has died in a traffic accident after leaving a breakfast Talmud study group. Rabbi Diamond, 73, who retired from the center 10 years ago, was killed when a speeding car crashed into a parked car which the rabbi was entering on the […]

Posted on: March 22nd, 2013

Rabbi Herschel Schacter, a former chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, has died. Schacter, the first U.S. Army chaplain to enter and participate in the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp, died Thursday. He was 95. Along with serving as chairman of the Presidents Conference from 1967 to 1969, he […]

Posted on: March 17th, 2013

Former Kadima Knesset Member Marina Solodkin passed away on Saturday night at the age of 60. Solodkin was in Riga, the Latvian capital, at a conference against Fascism. She is survived by her husband and two children. According to the Russian news agency, she was found dead in her hotel room, and doctors believe she […]

Posted on: March 6th, 2013

Even while he was severely ill, he was determined not to change his daily agenda despite his pain.

Posted on: March 6th, 2013

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez died on Tuesday at age 58. He has been the president of Venezuela since 1999.

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Posted on: March 4th, 2013

Rabbi Menachem Froman died Monday night at has home in Tekoa in Gush Etzion, where 200 of his students and followers sang and prayed instead of learning with him a weekly lesson in the mystical Zohar.

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Posted on: February 27th, 2013

Joseph (Yossel) Friedenson carried the title of “rabbi,” but his “pulpit” was far wider than any within four walls.

Posted on: February 10th, 2013

In 1971, Hartman and his wife Bobbi and their five children, made aliyah to Israel with plans to establish an institute for Jewish studies in Israel

Posted on: February 1st, 2013

Koch never met a solicitation for an opinion that he didn't like.

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Posted on: January 24th, 2013

According to Dershowitz, Glemp "was forced to apologize" as the result of Dershowitz's lawsuit against him.

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Posted on: January 20th, 2013

Ron Nachman, the Mayor of the Samarian city of Ariel, passed away after losing his battle to bladder cancer.

Posted on: January 18th, 2013

One of Pauline's most famous quotes was: "It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister."