Jonathan \”J.J.\” Greenberg, the executive director of the Jewish Life Network, died Saturday in Israel after his bicycle was struck by a car a day earlier.
\”Each Yom Kippur, a vesitgal loneliness creeps over me…. On this day, dispersion and alienation seep in, and I cling to my community like fog to the shore. And this is the way it should be.\”
Martin William Siegel, workers\’ compensation attorney, died Aug. 18 at the age of 50.
Ira Yellin, recognized throughout Los Angeles as an urban pioneer for his tireless efforts to rebuild the city\’s historic core, and most recently a principal of real estate development company Urban Partners LLC, died Sept. 10 at his home in Los Angeles from lung cancer. He was 62.
Rabbi Philip Schroit, beloved rabbi of B\’nai David-Judea for 44 years and rabbi emeritus for 10 years, died Aug. 12 at the age of 79.
Maurice R. Commanday, an innovative engineer in the aircraft industry, a veteran of World War II and Israel\’s War of Independence, and an active supporter of the Freedom of Religion movement in Israel, died July 23 at the age of 84.
Irwin M. Weinstein, one of the founders of the National Israel Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) and its Los Angeles chapter, died July 21 of a stroke and kidney failure. He was 76.
Elizabeth Marmorston Horowitz, founding director of the USC Law School paralegal program and a Juvenile Court mediator, died July 21 of cancer. She was 72.
Irv Kaze, a KRLA Sportscaster and longtime sports executive, died suddenly from a heart attack Saturday, June 29, at the age of 75.
Peter Grant, veteran Los Angeles reporter, editor, public relations executive and Jewish community activist who was the first journalist to enter Japan after its surrender in 1945, died June 4 in San Diego at age 86.
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