Obituaries

Upon reflection, as we mourn his sudden passing, Rabbi Dr. David Ellenson (1947-2023) was always in conversation.

“He was a visionary, and a brilliant man,” the attorney and Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz told JNS of his longtime friend.

He had recently celebrated his 75th birthday.

Rabbi Malka Mittelman, a remarkable woman whose light touched the lives of many, passed away on Yom Kippur, September 25, 2023.

He was a prominent entertainment executive and radiant pillar of the Los Angeles Jewish Community

Gene, one of the funniest — and most loyal — persons I ever have known, died early on Shabbat morning, Sept. 9.

On July 9th the Los Angeles area Iranian Jewish community lost one of its deeply devoted community volunteers with the passing of 87-year-old Asher Aramnia.

Joshua’s reunion with the American soldier who liberated him at Dachau Concentration Camp was captured in the 2015 History Channel documentary The Liberators: Why They Fought.

Along with Barry Mann, her husband of 62 years, she wrote some of the most iconic songs of the 20th century.