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Dear Readers, The High Holidays have officially arrived. Synagogues have mailed their tickets, Selichot has taken place and meals have been planned, ordered and reserved. Still, there is more to come. So Jewish News offers another packed High Holiday section that recalls 5774 and celebrates the arrival of 5775. Within these next 16 pages we [...]

by Tom Tugend LOS ANGELES (JTA)—It was 6 am on Aug. 19, 1964 when the phone rang in the Los Angeles apartment of Ivor Davis, the young West Coast correspondent for London’s Daily Express, circulation 4 million. On the other end was the paper’s foreign editor, who told Davis to drive to the airport and [...]

Andrew Madoff, the younger son of jailed Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff, died of cancer in New York. Madoff died Wednesday, Sept. 3 at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan of mantle cell lymphoma, according to his lawyer. He was 48. Both of Bernie Madoff’s sons have died since he was jailed in 2009 for [...]

Howard Stern offered a eulogy and Hugh Jackman provided a musical interlude at the celebrity-studded funeral for comedian Joan Rivers. Hundreds of mourners attended the private service on Sunday, Sept. 7 at Temple Emanu-El in New York City. The temple’s rabbi, Joshua Davidson, offered the opening prayer at the funeral, which was closed to the [...]

Rashi Fein, a Harvard professor known for his contributions to medicine and social policy, has died. Fein, a professor emeritus of economics of medicine at Harvard Medical School, was the brother of Jewish activist and writer Leonard Fein, who died nearly a month ago. He was instrumental in the development of U.S. health policy, beginning [...]

Virginia Beach —Suzanne Mollie Zedd, known to friends and family as Susie, passed away unexpectedly on Sept. 5, 2014, while tending her yard in Norfolk, Va. Born on Sept. 15, 1950, Suzanne was the daughter of Sarah B. Zedd and the late Stanley Zedd, of Norfolk. A lifetime resident of Norfolk, Suzanne recently retired after [...]

Norfolk —Edice Aron Schloss, 78, passed away at the Beth Sholom Home, Sept. 15, 2014. A native of Portsmouth, she was the daughter of the late Max and Hannah Aron and the widow of Max Schloss. She was predeceased by her brothers Fred and Sidney Aron and her sister and brotherin- law, Shirley and Louis [...]

Tamarac, Fla .—Edna Mesh, age 92, passed peacefully on Sept. 10, 2014. She was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., the fourth daughter of Jacob and Bessie Miller. Married in 1940 to Norman Mesh, they celebrated 50 years of love and hard work. They retired to Florida in 1977, and had many years of joyous life with [...]

Richmond, Va.—Beatrice Klein, 94, of Richmond, beloved mother, grandmother and artist, died Sept. 10, 2014, of old age. Bea was born to the late Samuel A. and Jennie Oppleman Temko, Feb. 7, 1920 in Lynchburg, Va. She married Dr. Arthur Klein in 1943, in Richmond and they lived happily together in the Richmond’s West End [...]

Allie Dolsey on her engagement to Mark Barney, son of Kevin and Karen Barney of Virginia Beach. Allie is the daughter of Ronni Marcus of Virginia Beach and Robert Dolsey of Virginia Beach. Allie is a graduate of George Mason University. Mark is a graduate of Old Dominion University. Mark and Allie are both managers [...]