Sara Feigel (Lichtman) Gold, mother of Yonatan Gold, passed away this morning, August 6, 2026, in Indiana.

Florence Marion Dulberg, the beloved mother of Mike Dulberg, passed away peacefully on Sunday, July 12th.

Jacob Rubin Wiese, son of Janice Rubin & Charles Wiese and husband of Andria, was killed in a military training accident on June 13, 2026.

Yale Harvard Pincus, step-father of Shauna Sadow, passed away peacefully on June 4th, 2026 surrounded by his loving children, just six days before his 92nd birthday.

We honor Karen's memory through acts of love and kindness, which she embodied and expressed as the necessary response to evil in her dying days. We are strong and we are here for each other.

Rhoda Nozik died peacefully on Saturday evening, May 30, 2026 at the end of shabbat under hospice care at Frasier Meadows.

Marvin Chatinover grandfather of Rav Jacob Chatinover, passed away peacefully in Connecticut on Wednesday, May 27, 2026.

"I restate my position that I am an unashamedly Zionist rabbi in a Zionist synagogue within a Zionist movement, and I will be mourning the losses with Israelis in our community on Monday night at the JCC, and celebrating Israel’s 78th birthday on Tuesday night. "

We all prepare for and practice this holiday differently and it is full of memory and meaning as we perform the rituals, eat the special food and tell the story, different each year because we are different; the world is different. Mah nishtanah?!

Gloria Lenore Levanthal, Shari Goldstein's mother, passed away on February 22, 2026, in New York at age 89.

Laurel Blau, mother of Joel Blau, passed away peacefully at the age of 94 in Chicago on Monday, February 23, 2026.

Marian Safran passed away on Shabbat morning, January 31, 2026, following a bad flu, just 9 days after her husband Bill.

Professor William Safran, formerly of Boulder, CO, passed away in California on January 22, 2026. The memorial and burial will take place in Boulder on Sunday, January 25.

It was devastating to wake up this morning to the news of the horrific, evil shooting attack on a family Hanukkah celebration near Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, one of the first places in the world to bring in the festival of light, which began in darkness. Jews all over the world are in such deep shock and, inevitably, afraid that such incidents might happen at other public Hanukkah events.

Alyce (Lewin) Ginzberg (Alisha bat Moshe v'Esther) passed away on November 21, 2025, in New York.

Harold Kornfeld, father of Avraham (Gary) Kornfeld, passed away late on November 10, 2025 in Scranton, PA. 

There are so many mixed emotions on this historic day and it is hard to process them all, let alone even begin to imagine the feelings of those being released and the joy and relief of their families

There was once a very poor man, a simple and pious Jew, in a shtetl somewhere in Ukraine, or maybe it was Poland.  He could barely feed his family and all the doors in his house were broken.  One night he had a dream and in his dream he saw …

A young rabbi was about to enter her first round of High Holidays in a congregation and the president of the board, who had been the chair of her search committee, asked her  “What are you going to speak about ?”  The rabbi said “I thought I’d speak about Shabbos, …

Judy Gordon, mother of Gilad Gordon, passed away early on Monday morning, September 1, 2025.

Beverly Pincus, mother of Shauna Sadow, passed away peacefully in her home in California in the early hours of this morning, August 29th, 2025.

Rachael Goldman, wife of Bob Goldman and sister-in-law of Bonai Shalom member and friend Michelle Goldman, passed away this morning, August 25, 2025 in the Denver Hospice. 

SHIVA UPDATE. Bruria Bodek Falik, mother of Daniel Falk, passed away on Tisha b'Av, last Sunday August 3, 2025 at the age of 93.

Last week I took a short trip to Oradea in Romania near the Hungarian border, where both cultures and languages co-exist.  I was there with Rachel, who was born and raised in this historic city with its beauty and its great pain. ...

Karen Sorin Diamond, who lived a life of extraordinary kindness and love, passed away on June 25, 2025.