Obituaries
JUF News publishes obituaries as a service to the community. May the memories of all who have died be a blessing.
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Remembering an key player with a zest for life
Known for his deep commitment to the Jewish people.
According to his son Daniel, Rabbi William Z. Novick was “legendary.”
Though she served as the executive director of the Midwest region of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism for 30 years, Chana Rosen’s co-workers knew little of her past until she spoke at her retirement dinner in June of 2004.
Sidney Lawrence Port loved sayings and words
Rabbi Mordecai Simon, whose long and distinguished rabbinic career was devoted to the Jewish community and who served as executive director of the Chicago Board of Rabbis for 32 years, died on Wednesday, May 16 at his home in Highland Park. He was 81.
After 92 years of life, Tessie Luck passed away on April 4, 2007, in Milwaukee, Wisc. Her granddaughter, Cindy Sher, had spent a weekend in 2000 interviewing her about her life story. This piece originally ran in JUF News in March of 2001.
Franklin E. Horwich, a business entrepreneur and lifelong leader and benefactor in Jewish communal organizations, locally and nationally, died on March 3 at the age of 88. Growing up in Hyde Park with his sister, Loretta, Horwich absorbed and came to embody and perpetuate his family's rich t
