Obits
Reb Moshe
Published in the Home News Tribune 05/22/05
Rabbi Martin Schlussel died Saturday, May 21, 2005, at North Broward
Medical Center in Deerfield Beach, Fla. He was 79.
Rabbi Schlussel was born in New York City. As a youth, Rabbi Schlussel
went to rabbinical school in New York City. He graduated from Princeton
University with a master's degree in pastoral care. He was an Army
veteran. Rabbi Schlussel came to Temple Beth El, Somerset, as educator
and principal of the Hebrew school in 1965. He was rabbi of the
congregation until he retired in 1993 and from that date has been rabbi
emeritus of Temple Beth El. He was a Chabad emissary for 40 years. He
was chaplain at both Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and Saint
Peter's University Hospital. Rabbi Schlussel was a founding member of
the Franklin Township Food Bank and a member of the Franklin Township
Clergy Council. In his retirement, Rabbi Schlussel was a member of
Congregation Young Israel in Deerfield Beach, Fla.
Rabbi Schlussel is survived by his wife of 57 years, Sylvia H. Blank
Schlussel; a son, Nathaniel of Los Angeles, Calif.; two daughters,
Rachael Bednarsh of Fair lawn and Aviva Ariel of Santa Fe, N.M.; a
brother, Chaim of Far Rockaway, N.Y.; eight grandchildren, and four
great-grandchildren.
Services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at Temple Beth El in Somerset.
Interment will follow in Beth Israel Cemetery in Woodbridge. Shiva will
be observed at the Bednarsh residence in Fair lawn. Arrangements are by
Gleason Funeral Home, 1360 Hamilton St., Somerset
Reb Moshe
Gershon Jacobson, 70, Founder and Editor of Yiddish Journal,
Is Dead
By MARGALIT FOX NY Times
Gershon Jacobson, the founder, editor and publisher of Der
Algemeiner Journal, one of the largest Yiddish-language
weekly newspapers in North America, died on Sunday at NYU
Downtown Hospital in Manhattan. He was 70 and lived in
Brooklyn.
The cause was complications of diabetes, his son Simon said.
A former reporter for The New York Herald-Tribune, Mr.
Jacobson founded Der Algemeiner Journal in 1972, publishing
it for years from an office on the Lower East Side before
moving it to his home last year. The paper, printed in
Yiddish with a four-page English supplement, has a
circulation of 18,000. Simon Jacobson said yesterday that
his family plans to continue publishing the paper.
Although Der Algemeiner Journal is widely read by Hasidic
Jews, for whom Yiddish is the language of everyday affairs,
Gershon Jacobson himself defied easy categorization.
Describing himself as an observant Jew, he lived near the
Lubavitcher community in Crown Heights, but was not formally
affiliated with any Hasidic sect. His paper, at times a
lightning rod in the Orthodox Jewish world, reported freely
on tensions between rival Hasidic sects, notably the
Lubavitch and the Satmar.
Mr. Jacobson was born Boris Yacobashvili in Moscow on May
30, 1934, to a scholarly Lubavitcher family. His father was
exiled to a Siberian prison camp during the Stalinist regime
but escaped after World War II. The family fled the Soviet
Union, eventually settling in Paris, where Gershon began his
journalism career, and later in Toronto.
Mr. Jacobson received an undergraduate degree from the
University of Toronto and a graduate degree from the
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He worked
on The Herald-Tribune from the late 1950's until it ceased
publication in 1966 and was later city editor for Der
Tog-Morgen Journal, a Yiddish-language daily. After Der Tog
closed in late 1971, he founded Der Algemeiner Journal.
Mr. Jacobson is survived by his wife, the former Sylvia
Lipskier; three sons, all rabbis: Simon, Boruch and Yosef
Y., all of Brooklyn; two daughters: Freida Hecht of Norwalk,
Conn., and Chana Krasnianski of Manhattan; two brothers,
Betzalel and Sholom, both of Brooklyn; 31 grandchildren; and
one great-grandchild.
Reb Moshe
12jun05
1667 - The first known successful blood transfusion is carried out by
Jean-Baptiste Denys, personal physician to Louis XIV of France, on a
15-year-old-boy using blood from a sheep.
1683 - Plot to assassinate King Charles II of Britain and his brother
James, Duke of York, is uncovered.
1798 - Captain Arthur Phillip names Hawkesbury River in NSW.
1798 - French forces under Napoleon Bonaparte capture island of
Malta.
1872 - Royal Mint opens in Melbourne.
1897 - Swiss cutlery maker Carl Elsener patents his penknife, later
to become known as the Swiss army knife.
1898 - During the Spanish-American War, Philippine nationalists
declare independence from Spain.
1934 - Political parties are banned in Bulgaria.
1944 - Germans launch flying-bomb attacks against Britain.
1944 - Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong announces he will support
Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-Shek in the war against Japan.
1952 - English cricketer Denis Compton hits his 100th century.
1953 - Len Hutton becomes the first professional cricketer to captain
England.
1957 - Death of US band leader and saxophonist Jimmy Dorsey.
1963 - US civil rights leader Medgar Evers is fatally shot in front
of his home in Jackson, Mississippi.
1963 - One of Hollywood's costliest failures, Cleopatra, starring
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Rex Harrison, premieres in New
York.
1964 - Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu and other anti-apartheid leaders
are sentenced to life in prison.
1976 - A military coup in Uruguay overthrows civilian president Juan
Bordaberry, beginning a nine-year dictatorship.
1978 - David Berkowitz is sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for
each of the six "Son of Sam" killings that terrified New Yorkers.
1985 - Portugal signs the treaty of accession to the European
Economic Community.
1990 - Israel's new right-wing government vows to spend more money on
new settlements in the Occupied Lands.
1991 - Boris Yeltsin is elected president of the Russian republic.
1991 - Mt Pinatubo, a Philippine volcano, erupts for a third time
just 14 hours after unleashing a series of explosions that shut down
the biggest US air base in Asia.
1991 - Bangladesh's former President Hossain Mohammed Ershad is
sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for illegal possession of firearms.
1993 - United Nations Forces launch offensive against Somali warlord
Mohammed Farrah Aideed.
1994 - Death of Menachem Schneerson, the head of the ultra-Orthodox
Lubavitch movement and a figure of great religious power in Judaism, in
New York.
1994 - Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are found stabbed to
death in Brentwood, California; her ex-husband, former American
football star OJ Simpson, is later acquitted of their murder.
1995 - Italian Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, hailed as one of the
greatest pianists of the 20th century, dies.
1996 - Eighteen Australian servicemen die when two army Blackhawk
helicopters collide and burst into flames during training exercises
near Townsville, Queensland.
1999 - NATO troops flood into Kosovo and come face-to-face with
Russian troops who seize the airport in Pristina in an unexpected move.
The Russian foreign minister calls the Russian deployment a mistake.
2000 - Municipal elections in Montenegro, Serbia's smaller partner in
the Yugoslav federation, leave the country divided between backers of
the pro-Western government and supporters of Slobodan Milosevic.
2001 - Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-'Owhali, an Osama bin Laden follower,
receives life in prison without parole in the 1998 bombing of the US
Embassy in Kenya, which killed 213 people. He is convicted of
conspiracy in the nearly simultaneous bombing on the US Embassy in
Tanzania.
2002 - A three-judge panel in the New Jersey State Superior Court
rules the US government may keep secret the names of immigrants
detained in the wake of September 11 attacks.
2003 - Gregory Peck, one of the last great stars from Hollywood's
golden era and a man who embodied on-screen heroism and dignity, dies.
He was 87. Best known for his appearances in the films To Kill a
Mockingbird, Moby Dick and Cape Fear.
2004 - Seven Turkish contractors taken hostage in Iraq are released
by their kidnappers, while elsewhere in the country a deputy foreign
minister is gunned down on his way to work in the first assassination
of a senior official since the new interim government was announced
this month.
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