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Samuel Paley, 93

Samuel Paley, age 93, of the Ohav Shalom Apartments, Albany, died on Monday, August 15, 2011, at St. Peter’s Hospital in Albany. Born in Albany, Mr. Paley was a lifelong resident. He was a very talented graphic artist and had been self-employed for many years in aluminum siding sales.
Loving uncle of Zoey Knapik and her [...]

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Ruth Lewanda, 98

Ruth Jeziernicka Lewanda, 98, passed away at her home on July 27, 2011. Ruth was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1913 and was a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Holocaust.
Ruth was born into a family of five brothers and sisters. Her siblings and her parents all perished at the hands of the Nazis [...]

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Phillip Pinsky, 72

Philip Carlin Pinsky, a distinguished and prominent Upstate New York lawyer for five decades, died Saturday evening, July 23, 2011 at his summer home on Wellesley Island, N.Y. Although battling pancreatic cancer for over two years, the cause of death was an apparent heart attack. He was 72.

Mr. Pinsky served as an attorney in New [...]

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JTA launches online archive with a quarter-million articles

NEW YORK (JTA)–JTA has launched a digital archive containing 250,000 articles dating from 1923.
The JTA Jewish News Archive, which is searchable and free for the public to use, was launched officially Tuesday evening with a celebration at the Center for Jewish History in New York.

Highlights of the archive include extensive reporting from Europe in the [...]

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Obituaries

Bernard Halpert
90, of Allentown, Penn., July 29, 2010; survived by wife Kathleen Halpert; son Jonathan (Arlene) Halpert of Delmar; daughters Susanna (Paul) Levitt of California, Joan (Peter Hanson) Halpert of Massachusetts, Felicia (Constantine Rodis) Halpert of New Jersey, and Margaret (James Lewis) LeMay-Lewis of Iowa; and 10 grandchildren.
Leon Heit
83, of Port Charlotte, Fla., July 19, [...]

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11 eighth graders graduate from HACD

ALBANY–The Hebrew Academy of the Capital District celebrated the graduation of 11 eighth graders at a June 23 ceremony held at Temple Israel in Albany.

Speakers including Rabbi Rami Strosberg, head of school; Rabbi Dan Ornstein of Congregation Ohav Shalom in Albany and Rabbi Pinchas Hamen, director of Bonayich Educational Services in Israel, paid tribute to [...]

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