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Dorothy Meckler
Libby Rosenberg
Fanny Stolarsky
Anna Weisberger
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Jacob Franovitz
Josef Gerszonowicz
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Sholom Scott
Kalman Shapiro
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Joseph Jaffa
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DOROTHY WEINER, 79, of
Southfield, died May 10, 2010.
She is survived by her brother-in-
law and sisters-in-law, Arnold and
Karen Weiner of Rochester Hills,
Evelyn Leiderman of Battle Creek;
sister, Mildred Kaplan of Highland
Heights, Ohio; loving nephews, nieces
and cousins.
Mrs. Weiner was the beloved wife
of the late D. Morton; loving daughter
of the late Louis and the late Rose
Liederman; dear sister of the late Jack
Leiderman.
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a charity of one's choice. Services
and interment at Adat Shalom
Memorial Park Cemetery in Livonia.
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(JTA) — Chess
grandmaster Andor
Lilienthal has died in
Budapest at the age
of 99.
Andor
The Hungarian
Lilienthal
Chess Federation
said Lilienthal, who
was the oldest living grandmaster — a
title awarded to the world's top players
by the International Chess Federation
— died May 8 following a long illness.
Lilienthal, the son of Hungarian
Jewish parents, competed against
many of the world's leading chess
players. In 1950, he was included on
the International Chess Federation's
first list of grandmasters.
Born in Moscow, Lilienthal moved
to Budapest as a child before return-
ing to Moscow in 1935 and becoming
a Soviet citizen. He moved back to
Budapest in 1976.
calls itself "the rabbinic voice of con-
science in Israel, giving voice to the
Jewish tradition of human rights," has
a membership of rabbis and rabbinic
students from all streams of Judaism.
It is primarily concerned with the
condition of Palestinians living in the
West Bank and Gaza.
"Rabbi Forman will be sorely
missed," said Rabbi Arik Ascherman,
executive director of Rabbis For
Human Rights. "Not only was he our
founder, but he was a moral compass
for several generations of Jews, par-
ticularly regarding Israel:'
Forman, who made aliyah in 1972,
served as the director of the Israel
office of the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations, where he led
the effort for religious pluralism in
Israel. Prior to that he was the chair-
man of Interns for Peace from 1984 to
1986, and the founding chairman of
both the Jerusalem Council for Soviet
Jewry in 1973 and the Cincinnati
Council for Soviet Jewry in 1970.
Forman keynoted the Nobel
Institute conference on "The Role of
Religion in Middle East Peacemaking."
In 1994, he was a member of the
Israeli delegation to the Nobel Peace
Prize ceremony for laureates Yasser
Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak
Rabin.
He wrote four books and was a reg-
ular contributor to many newspapers
and magazines in Israel and in the
Anglo-Jewish press.
Forman was ordained in 1972, and
received a doctorate in 1997 from
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute
of Religion. Between 1977 and 1991,
he was a deputy commanding officer
in the Israeli army, receiving a citation
for meritorious service in 1990.
Rabbi Forman
— Rabbi David
Forman, the founder
of Rabbis for
Human Rights who
fought for religious
pluralism in Israel,
has died.
Forman died May 3 in Dallas while
awaiting a liver transplant. He was 10
days shy of his 66th birthday.
The rabbi founded Rabbis for
Human Rights in 1988 and served as
its chairman until 1992, and again
in 2002-03. The organization, which
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Lt. Zilberman
pilot was awarded
one of the U.S.
Navy's highest hon-
ors for sacrificing
his life to save his
three crew mates.
Lt. Miroslav "Steve" Zilberman
was posthumously awarded the
Distinguished Flying Cross for his her-
oism over the Arabian Sea on March
31, when he assumed manual control
of an E-2C Hawkeye after it blew an
engine.
He kept the plane steady and
ordered his crew to eject. Zilberman,