Remembrance
Isaiah Kuperstein, 70, Holocaust Educator
Isaiah Kuperstein, 70, who was the first Director of Education at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., died April 4 of...
David Toren, 94, Pursued and Reclaimed Nazi Stolen Art
David Toren, who tracked down his family’s art looted by the Nazis, died of COVID-19 on April 19. The New York resident was an attorney and Holocaust survivor. According to the New York Times, Toren captured press...
Ben Raymond, 108, London’s Oldest Person
Ben Raymond, London’s oldest person, died at age 108 on April 20. According to the UK-based Jewish Chronicle, the cause was recorded as coronavirus, although he was not tested. Raymond was a mustachioed hairdresser with famous...
Henri Kichka, 94, Belgian Holocaust Survivor
Henri Kichka, one of the last remaining Holocaust survivors from Belgium, died April 25 from the coronavirus. On Facebook, his son Michel, a noted cartoonist, said of his father that "a small microscopic coronavirus succeeded where...
Suzy Levi, 65, First Israeli Medical Professional to Die of COVID-19
A nurse, Suzy Levi, who is the first Israeli medical worker to succumb to the...
Cantor Alvin Donald, 92, Singer With Operatic Voice
What everyone agrees on is that Cantor Alvin Donald had a sonorous voice. They recall...
Rabbi Binyomin Wolff, 43, Spiritual Leader in Hanover, Germany
Rabbi Binyomin Wolff, the Chabad rabbi in Hanover, Germany, died on April 24. He arrived...
Yakup Barouh, 75, Turkish Jewish Community Leader and Businessman
Yakup Barouh, who served as president of the Jewish community in Turkey in the early...
Benjamin Levin, 93, Partisan ‘Avenger’ Who Fought the Nazis
Benjamin Levin, a resistance fighter who battled the Nazis, died April 13. Joining at age 14,...
Isaiah Kuperstein, 70, Holocaust Educator
Isaiah Kuperstein, 70, who was the first Director of Education at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., died April 4 of the...
David Toren, 94, Pursued and Reclaimed Nazi Stolen Art
David Toren, who tracked down his family’s art looted by the Nazis, died of COVID-19 on April 19. The New York resident was an attorney and...
Ben Raymond, 108, London’s Oldest Person
Ben Raymond, London’s oldest person, died at age 108 on April 20. According to the UK-based Jewish Chronicle, the cause was recorded as coronavirus, although...
Henri Kichka, 94, Belgian Holocaust Survivor
Henri Kichka, one of the last remaining Holocaust survivors from Belgium, died April 25 from the coronavirus. On Facebook, his son Michel, a noted cartoonist, said...
Suzy Levi, 65, First Israeli Medical Professional to Die of COVID-19
A nurse, Suzy Levi, who is the first Israeli medical worker to succumb to the coronavirus, died on April 26. She worked at the Sheba Medical...
Cantor Alvin Donald, 92, Singer With Operatic Voice
What everyone agrees on is that Cantor Alvin Donald had a sonorous voice. They recall his operatic vocal chords, ones which he used for about...
Rabbi Binyomin Wolff, 43, Spiritual Leader in Hanover, Germany
Rabbi Binyomin Wolff, the Chabad rabbi in Hanover, Germany, died on April 24. He arrived in Hanover 15 years ago, and helped to reshape the...
Yakup Barouh, 75, Turkish Jewish Community Leader and Businessman
Yakup Barouh, who served as president of the Jewish community in Turkey in the early 1990s, has died. He was active in communal affairs for...
Benjamin Levin, 93, Partisan ‘Avenger’ Who Fought the Nazis
Benjamin Levin, a resistance fighter who battled the Nazis, died April 13. Joining at age 14, he was the last surviving of a group known as...
Rabbi Yeshayahu Heber, 55, Facilitated Hundreds of Kidney Donations
Rabbi Avraham Yeshayahu Heber, the founder of a nonprofit that helps with kidney transplants, passed away in Israel on April 23. Through his organization Matnat...
Rabbi Don Yoel Levy, 72, Leading Authority on Kosher Food Certification
Rabbi Don Yoel Levy, who was known for his uncompromisingly high standards in the field of kosher food supervision, died on April 16, the final...
Noach Dear, 66, Jurist, Politician and Advocate for Orthodox Jewry
Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Noach Dear, who was a strong voice for Israel and Orthodox Jewry while on the City Council for nearly two decades,...
William Richard Harrell Jr., 63, Harlem Pastor Who Spoke Fluent Yiddish
William Richard Harrell Jr. William Richard Harrell Jr., 63, a Harlem pastor who was a rarity in being an African American clergyman who was adept at...
Stanley Chera, 77, Real Estate Developer, Philanthropist and Friend of the President
Stanley Chera, whose family went from his father operating a children’s department store on Fulton Street in Brooklyn into their owning a wide portfolio of...
