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Death announcements for the week of April 28, 2023

by J. Staff April 28, 2023April 28, 2023
Jamie Simon, outgoing director of Camp Tawonga, hugging Aaron Mandel, incoming camp director, at an event celebrating Simon's tenure with the organization. (Photo/Ezra Trost-Goldhammer)
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Honors, comings & goings, happenings and opportunities

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb April 27, 2023
Singer and actor Harry Belafonte in a recording studio, circa 1957. (Photo/JTA-Hulton Archive-Getty Images)
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Harry Belafonte, singer and civil rights activist who popularized ‘Hava Nagila’ in the US, dies at 96

by Lisa Keys and JTA April 26, 2023April 26, 2023
Holocaust survivor Leon Rajninger at his home in San Francisco. (Photo/Liz Harris)
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Read and watch testimony from 10 Bay Area Holocaust survivors

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb April 18, 2023April 18, 2023
a middle aged woman, an old woman, and a young woman in a wedding dress stand together smiling in a bridal store.
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Hedda Kleinfeld Schachter, Holocaust survivor and bridal empire builder, dies at 99

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg and JTA April 17, 2023
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Death announcements for the week of April 14, 2023

by J. Staff April 14, 2023April 18, 2023
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Lifecycles announcements for the week of April 14, 2023

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Daniel Altman. (Photo/Berkeleyside-Courtesy Altman family)
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Remembering Daniel Altman, Israel-born architect who painted Bay Area scenes

by Megan Davis and Sharon Davis April 12, 2023
Left: Al Jaffee speaks during an event at New York Comic Con, Oct. 6, 2017 in New York City. (Photo/JTA-Bryan Bedder-Getty Images for Mad Magazine) Right: The cover of "Fold This Book," a 1997 collection of Jaffee's work.
Posted inObituaries

Al Jaffee, iconic Mad Magazine cartoonist who also inked Chabad comic, dies at 102

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer and JTA April 11, 2023April 11, 2023
Michelle Kracoff, senior director of fundraising at the Oshman Family JCC, is hoisted high, b'nai mitzvah-style, at the annual gala of the OFJCC, which celebrated the Palo Alto facility's 13th year, March 18, 2023. (Photo/Myleen Hollero)
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Honors, happenings, opportunities, comings & goings — March 2023

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb March 31, 2023April 3, 2023

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