Michael Rosenwald

3 weeks ago | wlrn.org | Michael Rosenwald

Rabbi Sholom B. Lipskar, a charismatic and visionary figure in the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement who helped transform South Florida into a vibrant center of Jewish life and founded a national organization that supports Jews in prison and the military, died on May 3 in Miami. He was 78. The cause of his death, in a hospital, was heart failure, said Rabbi Zalman Shmotkin, a spokesperson for the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Michael Rosenwald

Lynn Freed, a South African-born writer whose mordant, darkly comic works explored her Jewish upbringing during apartheid, along with the jagged feelings of displacement experienced by expatriates and the ways that women negotiate their identities and sexual desire, died May 9 at her home in Sonoma, Calif. She was 79. Her daughter, Jessica Gamsu, said the cause was lymphoma.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Michael Rosenwald

A charismatic figure in the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, he opened a synagogue in South Florida, unifying the Jewish community there, and founded the Aleph Institute. Rabbi Sholom B. Lipskar, a charismatic and visionary figure in the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement who helped transform South Florida into a vibrant center of Jewish life and founded a national organization that supports Jews in prison and the military, died on May 3 in Miami. He was 78.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Michael Rosenwald

Ed Smylie, the NASA official who led a team of engineers that cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape that saved the Apollo 13 crew in 1970 after an explosion crippled the spacecraft as it sped toward the moon, died April 21 in Crossville, Tennessee. He was 95. His death, at a hospice facility, was confirmed by his son, Steven.

1 month ago | post-gazette.com | Michael Rosenwald

Robert "Ed" Smylie, the NASA official who led a team of engineers that cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape that saved the Apollo 13 crew in 1970 after an explosion crippled the spacecraft as it sped toward the moon, died April 21 in Crossville, Tenn. He was 95. His death, at a hospice facility, was confirmed by his son, Steven.