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The parents of Steven Sotloff, the Jewish journalist who was beheaded by a member of ISIS, lit a public menorah in Miami in his memory. Arthur and Shirley Sotloff lit the first candle of Chanukah on Tuesday, Dec. 16 at the Chabad center. “Steve was a proud Jew who always enjoyed the holidays,” Arthur Sotloff [...]

Photographer Phil Stern, known for his candid shots of Hollywood stars and jazz musicians, has died. Stern died Saturday, Dec. 13 in Los Angeles after an extended hospital stay. He was 95. Stern worked as a combat photographer for the Army newspaper Stars and Stripes during World War II , where he served as a [...]

Norfolk—Marion Bette Segal passed away peacefully in her home on Dec. 5, 2014 in Long Grove, Ill. She was born in Atlantic City N.J. on Jan 9, 1922 to Israel and Augusta Brown of blessed memory. Bette lived in Philadelphia as a child before the family moved to the Tidewater area and graduated from Maury [...]

Norfolk — Solomon Ponizovskiy, 82, died Nov. 28, 2014 in Sentara Norfolk General Hospital from multiple myeloma. He was born July 8, 1932 in Kiev, Ukraine. In 1941 when Nazis advanced to occupy Ukraine, his family was fortunate to be evacuated to Ural Mountains because his father worked at the Kiev Arsenal, the largest armaments [...]

Virginia Beach —Harry Polay, 93, died Dec. 3, 2014. Mr. Polay was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. to the late Rubin and Eva Kramer Polay. He was a member of Norfolk Masonic Lodge #1 for over 50 years and the Khedive Shrine, where he served as the director of the Shrine Golf Club. He is survived [...]

Norfolk — Gertrude “Trudy” Jacobs Friedman, 82, died Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014 in her residence. She was a New York native and was the daughter of the late Aaron Jacobs and Sophia Freeman Sutton and was preceded in death by her husband Gilbert Reuben Friedman. She graduated from Wilson High School and attended the College [...]

Charlene and David Cohen on the engagement of their daughter, Donna to Asher Kells of Northern Virginia. Donna received a bachelor of arts degree in psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park and a MA in mental health from New York University. She is a licensed clinical professional counselor and works with elementary school [...]

Eve Sacha Burton-Poteet, RN, BSN, BSHCM, on her promotion to the rank of Lieutenant Commander, USN. Her father, Commander Joshua Jacob Nelson, (Retired), promoted her. Married to Scott Poteet, they have two children, Josh 11 and Leah 7, who both attended Strelitz Early Childhood Center at the Simon Family JCC.

Jeffrey A. Swartz, a partner at Swartz, Taliaferro, Swartz & Goodove in Norfolk, who was selected for Virginia Business magazine’s “Virginia’s Legal Elite” for 2014 in the category of Criminal Defense. Swartz was selected by his peers and members of the Virginia Bar Association. Swartz specializes in Criminal Defense in both State and Federal Courts.

Rabbi Israel Zoberman who delivered the opening prayer on Thursday, Dec. 11, of the U.S. Senate session.