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Aug 20, 2020 · “A Jewish memorial for the victims has to do the same. We are one people.” And so even before Passover began, Chabad.org launched “Each Person, a World”—a project to document the name, age and some biographical information about every Jewish person who passed away from COVID-19. At the time, no one knew how big of an undertaking it ...
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This is a list of notable people reported as having died from coronavirus disease 2019 , as a result of infection by the virus SARS-CoV-2 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Index [ edit ]
Jun 25, 2020 · More than 500 Jews have died from COVID-19, according to the Board of Deputies of British Jews. That’s around 1.2% of total coronavirus deaths in that country, despite Jews comprising only 0.4% ...
- The Tombstone Maker: Ted Ruskin
- The Daughter: Beth Salamensky
- The Teacher Turned Bank Robber: Alan Hurwitz
- The Camp Director: Marcia Paris Waxman
- The Survivor: Rabbi Avrohom ‘Romi’ Cohen
- The Speech Teacher: Allyson Mestel-Schapira
- The Witness: Margit Buchhalter Feldman
- The Scholar: David Gitlitz
- The Musician: Adam Schlesinger
- The Baker: Gladys Davis
Ted Ruskin taught in a federal prison, designed tombstones under the name of “Tombstone Ted” and spearheaded the renovation and annual cleanup of several Jewish cemeteries in the Denver area. He also helped establish a memorial park for Ukrainian Jews massacred during the Holocaust. “Death didn’t hold a lot of terror for him,” his friend Paul Thoma...
Beth Salamensky was just starting to get involved at Beth Chayim Chadashim in Los Angeles, the first LGBTQ synagogue in the country, when financial challenges forced her to move back into her childhood home in Flossmoor, Illinois. In 2019, four years after her return to the Chicago area, the state sold the house to cover the costs of caring for Sal...
Alan Hurwitz, born in Detroit in 1941, became a teacher and school administrator, and was widely admired for his work in social justice. He was a desegregation advisor to the Detroit Public Schools, a member of former Michigan Gov. William Milliken’s Task Force on School Violence and the deputy director of the Peace Corps in Kenya. “I was raised in...
Marcia Paris Waxman loved baking challah, dancing ballet and listening to Motown music. For many years, she served as president of the Cleveland Chabad’s women division and ran the Camp Chabad summer program. She was also a mother to four, a grandmother to 16 and a great-grandmother to 10. In her later years, she would spend summers by the pool wit...
Avrohom “Romi” Cohenwas 10 when the Nazis invaded his native Czechoslovakia in 1938. During the Holocaust, he was smuggled into Hungary; his mother and four siblings were killed in concentration camps. As a teenager, with forged papers that identified him as a Christian, he returned to Czechoslovakia, and joined the partisan forceshiding in the mou...
Allyson Mestel-Schapira worked as a public school speech teacher in Queens, N.Y., for 25 years. She organized birthday festivities and get-togethers at the school, “keeping fun and joy in everyone’s lives,” her colleague, Loretta Tumbarello, told the New York state teachers union. She died April 19, 2020, at the age of 48 due to COVID-19. “Those wh...
Born the same day in 1929 as Anne Frank, Margit Buchhalter Feldman was also sent to Bergen-Belson, where Frank died. But Feldman, who was also sent to Auschwitz, among other death and labor camps, survived the Holocaust, in part, she believes, because she lied to the Nazis. At 15, she told them she was 18, in hopes that she would be sent to forced ...
David Gitlitz made his mark in academia as an expert on Sephardic Jews, and won awards for his books, which included “Secrecy and Deceit: The Religion of the Crypto Jews” and a cookbook, “A Drizzle of Honey: The Lives and Recipes of Spain’s Secret Jews.” He did much of his research on trips to Spain, where he hiked the 500-mile Camino de Santiago w...
“If you were anywhere near a radio, television or movie theater in the past 25 years, you’ve heard Adam Schlesinger’s music,” PJ Grisar wrote for the Forwardin 2020. His career began in 1996 with the song “That Thing You Do!” which he wrote for the Tom Hanks movie of the same name, earning him his first film credit and Oscar and Golden Globe nomina...
Gladys Davis was an expert needle-pointer and gifted baker of Hungarian delicacies. By the time she was hospitalized in March 2020 at the age of 90 with pancreatitis, she had survived two hip replacements, a heart attack and breast cancer. She tested positive for COVID-19 in the hospital. “I couldn’t kiss her,” her son Rick Davis told The Detroit J...
Seth Benjamin Green (né Gesshel-Green; born February 8, 1974) is an American actor. His film debut came with a role in the comedy-drama film The Hotel New Hampshire (1984), and he went on to have supporting roles in comedy films throughout the 1980s, including Radio Days (1987) and Big Business (1988). During the 1990s and 2000s, Green began ...
In England, people identifying as Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, or Jewish had higher age-standardised mortality rates (ASMRs) for deaths involving coronavirus (COVID-19) than those identifying as Christian in the period 24 January 2020 to 28 February 2021. Men and women in the "no religion" group, and women identifying as "other religion", had lower ...
In Israel, since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, Muslims have been adjusting certain religious rituals that are perceived as a form of leniency in worship, as some Muslim leaders have encouraged members to replace Friday prayers at the mosque with praying at home to comply with social distancing guidelines and help each other, in solidarity, to contain the virus (Bruns et ...
