Alan Abraham Goldberg passed away March 10, 2021, at Overland Park Regional Medical Center. He was born on Jan. 9, 1945, to Sophie Collens and Harold Bernard Goldberg in Highland Park, Michigan. Alan received a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Wayne State University, and a Master of Arts from Northern Illinois University at DeKalb.
Marvin Wilbur Goodman died on March 10, 2021, at Westchester Village of Lenexa at the age of 98 years and 1 day. Marvin was born March 9, 1923, to William Eli Goodman and Lillian Goldansky Goodman in Kansas City, Missouri. He spent his childhood in Kansas City with a large close family and enjoyed many boyhood summers in Times Beach, Missouri, working for his aunt and uncle.
Ruth Abend Krigel Tivol passed away on March 10, 2021. A Zoom memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. on Sunday, March 21. Email for more information. The family requests no flowers. Donations may be sent to the Ruth Krigel Tivol Fund at the Jewish Community Foundation, 5801 W. 115th St., Overland Park, Kansas 66211, or the charity of your choice.
Myron S. Cramer passed away peacefully on Feb. 15, 2021. Born in Kansas City, Kansas, on Aug. 30, 1937, Myron lived a life of unparalleled, indescribable magnitude. He grew up in Kansas City, attended and graduated from Wyandotte High School in 1955 and remained in the Kansas City area for the better part of his extraordinary life.
William “Bill” Kessler, 87, died peacefully in his Overland Park home on Feb. 24, 2021. Bill was born on June 10, 1933. The son of Phil and Jean Kessler, he grew up in Kansas City, Missouri.
Paul Bruce Milgrim, 66, of Kansas City, Missouri, passed away on Tuesday Feb. 23, 2021, at Menorah Medical Center. Paul was born to the late Pauline and Ben Milgrim in Joplin, Missouri.
Ria Maier Wolf, born in 1920 in Freiburg, Germany, came to Chicago in 1936 as refugee from Nazi oppression, and settled in Kansas City, Missouri, after her parents and brother joined her in 1937. She graduated from Central High School and then worked at the Alfred Benjamin Charity Clinic where she met her future husband, Jack W. Wolf, M.D., a clinic volunteer.
“Becky” Lurlene Rebecca Smelley Coleman, 94, of Overland Park, died Feb. 16, 2021. She was born Jan. 4, 1927, to Howard and Pearl Rogers Smelley in Lula, Georgia, and grew up in rural Georgia. She received her Bachelor of Arts from North Georgia College in Dahlonega.
Harold Bernard Pollack, 95, was born in Chicago on March 24, 1925, to Abraham and Anna Pollack.
Leonard Rosen, 84, of Lenexa, died Feb. 16, 2021. He was born Oct. 24, 1936, to the late David and Eva Rosen, in Washington, D.C. He graduated from Paseo High School in 1955. Leonard married Nedra Lilly in 1968.
My name is Gerry Trilling, and recently I learned that my genetic kidney disease (polycystic kidney disease-PKD) has progressed.
(St. Louis Jewish Light) - Sometimes, in the darkest of times, there appears a small flickering light.
When Haim Gabbai was 10 in wartime Morocco, his father was taken by force from the family home in Marrakesh and sent to a forced labor camp. A few months later, his father returned. He was ill, thin and had lost all his hair. The conditions in the camp had been atrocious.
Buckle your seatbelts; we’re heading in.
With the arrival of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish world is being thrown headlong into the leap year of 5782.
I was a writer before I became a rabbi and High Holiday sermons usually come easily to me. Some years I have so many ideas and teachings and hopes to share that I accidentally write more sermons than I need to give.