Herb Brin, one of the most colorful writers and editors in the annals of Los Angeles Jewish journalism, died of congestive heart failure\non Feb. 6 at the Jewish Home for the Aging in Reseda.
Leon Hirsh Guide, conductor, music educator and musician, died in early October. He was 81.
Guide was born Feb. 3, 1921, in Turkey to Clara and Joseph Guide, who had left Russia during the civil war. The family moved to Chicago when Guide was 2.
Samuel Neaman, philanthropist and former department store chain retailing manager, died in Oceanside on Nov. 13. He was 89.
Stan Burns, an Emmy Award-winning comedy writer, died of heart failure Nov. 5 at the Motion Picture and Television Fund Hospital. He was 79.
Harvey Silbert, philanthropist and attorney, died Sept. 28. He was 90.
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.
