Tag Archives: Joseph
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]



