18 — THE JEWISH CHRONICLE JANUARY 20, 2011
OBITUARIES BERGER: On Thursday, January 13, 2011, Rene Berger, daughter of the late Sarah and Paul Unatin; beloved mother of Debbi (Joe) Manich, Glenn (Karen) Berger and Jay Berger; beloved grandmother of Crystal, Samara (James), Paulee and Sophia, Sam, Rebecca, Jacob and Jennifer; beloved great-grandmother of Jenna and James; beloved sister of Phyllis (Buddy) Letwin and the late Mark Unatin; sister-in-law of Shirl Unatin. Services were held at Ralph Schugar Chapel, In, 5509 Centre Avenue, Shadyside. Interment Poale Zedeck Memorial Park. Contributions may be made to International Myeloma Foundation, 12650 Riverside Drive, Ste 206, N. Hollywood, CA 91607. GOODMAN: on Tuesday, January 11, 2011, Bette Goodman, 86, of Shadyside, formerly of McKeesport; beloved wife of the late Bernard Goodman; loving mother of Marsha (Dick) Leffel of Monroeville, Marc Goodman of Costa Mesa, CA, and Margie (Al) Adelmann of Camp Hill, PA; daughter of the late Z.L. and Dora Friedman Weiss; sister of Honey Davis of Oakland and Cecie Spiegel of White Oak and the late Ethel Spitz, Milton Weiss, Sydney Weiss, Florence Chottiner, Dave Weiss, Sylvia Mermelstein, Morris Weiss, Thelma Hartstein, Binky Weinstein and Barbara Weiss; adored grandma of Brent Leffel, Ryan and Jessica Leffel, Amy Leffel, and Carly Adelmann; adoring great-grammy of Mia and Liam Leffel; also survived by many special nieces, nephews, and dear friends. Funeral services were held at the Jennifer S. Jordan Funeral Home, Inc., White Oak. Interment Temple B’Nai Israel Cemetery. Donations may be made to Temple B’Nai Israel, 2025 Cypress Drive, White Oak, PA 15131. HERSH: On Monday, January 10, 2011, in Delray Beach, FL, Ruth C. Hersh, 90; beloved wife of the late Henry Hersh; mother of Edward Mary) Hersh and Robert Christine) Hersh; daughter of the late Joseph and Fanny Cohen; sister of Dolly Landay of Monroeville and Milton (Helen) Cohen of Hilton Head, SC; grandmother of Joanna, Michael, Elizabeth, Nathan and Jaclyn Hersh. Services were held at Ralph Schugar Chapel, Inc., 5509 Centre Ave., Shadyside. Interment Beth Abraham Cemetery. Contributions may be made to Birthright Israel Foundation, birthrightisrael.org. LEIBOWITZ: On Sunday, January 16, 2011, Victor Leibowitz; beloved husband of the late Gloria Leibowitz;
loving father of Murray M. (Adele) Leibowitz of Arnold, PA, Karen (Chris) Sobocinski of Pittsburgh, and the late David N. Leibowitz; preceded in death by two brothers and three sisters; beloved grandfather of Seth and Zane Leibowitz, and Scott and Sarah Sobocinski; also survived by nieces, nephews and great -nieces and nephews. Services were held at Ralph Schugar Chapel, Inc., 5509 Centre Ave., Shadyside. Interment Cneseth Israel Cemetery. Contributions may be made to Forward-Shady Apartments/Activites Department, 5841 Forward Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15217. LITTMAN: On Tuesday, January 11, 2011, Henrietta “Hank” Littman, beloved wife of the late Dr. Irwin J. “Irv” Littman; beloved mother of Richard Erin Morrissey) Littman of Charlotte, NC, William (Laurie) Littman of Oakland, CA and the late Jeffrey Littman; sister of Ann Gerson of Cranberry Township and the late Dorothy Latterman; grandmother of David Littman, Stacy (William) Miller, Ivy (Adam) Berman, Dori Littman and Blake (Andrew) Foote; great-grandmother of Jacob, Benjamin and Ryan Miller, John and Luke Foote; also survived by nieces and nephews. Services were held at Ralph Schugar Chapel, Inc., 5509 Centre Ave., Shadyside. Interment B’nai Israel Cemetery. Contributions may be made to Worthington at Adams, 500 Seven Fields Boulevard, Mars, PA 16046. REDLICH: On Tuesday, January 18, 2011, in Aventura, FL, Bernard Redlich, 79, of Greensburg, PA, formerly of Jeannette; beloved husband of the late Aleen Holtzman Redlich; father of Carol Redlich, Harry Redlich, both of Aventura, and Anne Redlich (David Witonsky) of Chicago; grandfather of Lilly Witonsky; son of the late Milton and Fannie Goldfield Redlich; also survived by his brother Leonard “Pudgy” Redlich and sisterin-law Faye Samuels Redlich, of Aventura, FL, sister-in-law Barbara Holtzman of Tucson, AZ and sister and brother-in-law Golde and Rona Holtzman of Blacksburg, VA, and his beloved aunt, Rose Goldfield of Aventura, FL. Services were held at Ralph Schugar Chapel, Inc., 5509 Centre Ave., Shadyside. Interment Ahavath Achim Cemetery/Forest Hills. Contributions may be made in memory of Bernard Redlich to Minding Your Mind, 42 West Lancaster Avenue, 2nd Floor, Ardmore, PA 19003.
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Continued from page 15. eved was appropriate. She also said the use of crosshairs on a political map was not an original idea. Giffords’ condition was upgraded from critical to serious on Monday. She is no longer on a respirator and a feeding tube has been put in its place. The PLO office in Washington raised a flag for the first time. “It’s about time that this flag that symbolizes the struggle of the Palestinian people for self-determination and statehood is raised in the United States,” said Palestine Liberation Organization envoy Maen Areikat in a brief ceremony Tuesday outside its Dupont Circle offices. “We hope that this will help in the international efforts to provide recognition for the Palestinian state.” The Obama administration granted the delegation, which does not have embassy status, permission to raise the flag last July. Palestinian Authority officials last year launched an effort to broaden international recognition of a state of Palestine within the 1967 borders of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The officials targeted Europe and Latin America, the two areas of the world where nations resisted the last such push, in the late 1980s. Seven South American nations have signed on to the effort, and senior Israeli officials have said they fear European governments may join them. On Tuesday, Russia’s government reaffirmed the 1988 recognition accorded Palestine by its Soviet predecessor. Areikat has said that such recognition is not tantamount to statehood, but ratchets up pressure on Israel to freeze settlement building. The Palestinian Authority abandoned direct talks in September because Israel’s government refused to extend a partial building freeze. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), the chairwoman of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, condemned the flag raising. “Raising this flag in D.C. is part of the Palestinian leadership’s scheme to manipulate international acceptance and diplomatic recognition of a yet-tobe-created Palestinian state while refusing to directly negotiate with Israel or accept the existence of Israel as a democratic, Jewish state,” she said. Ros-Lehtinen reiterated a call on the Obama administration to shut down the office as long as the Palestinians refuse to return to direct talks. Meanwhile, a bipartisan slate of U.S. senators wrote to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urging her to quash a resolution circulating at the U.N. Security Council which it suggests dictates terms for a settlement. “A resolution of this nature would work against our country’s consistent position, which has been that this and other issues linked to the Middle East peace process can only be resolved by the two parties negotiating directly with each other,” says the letter, signed by 17 senators and initiated by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.). JTA has obtained a draft of the resolution, reportedly initiated by the Palestinian delegation to the United Nations; it does not urge the imposition of terms, and instead calls for a freeze in settlement building and a return to direct talks. U.S. officials have said they do not want the settlements issue brought before the Security Council but have stopped short of saying they would veto such a resolution.
U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman reportedly will not run for re-election. Lieberman (I-Conn.), who became the first Jewish nominee on a major presidential ticket when Al Gore chose him as his running mate in 2000, announced his decision Wednesday in Hartford, Politico reported. Lieberman lost favor with Democrats over his support for the Iraq War. He lost the Connecticut primary in 2006 but ran as an independent and won. He caucused with the Democrats, but backed the presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in 2008. Lieberman’s overall ratings are low, Politico reported. A West Australian man who posted a video on YouTube accusing Judaism of being a “religion of racism, hate, homicide and ethnic cleansing” has gone on trial in Perth. Brendon Lee O’Connell, 38, who is representing himself, described Monday’s proceedings in District Court as a “kangaroo court” and told Judge Henry Wisbey he should be facing charges of treason. Two of O’Connell’s supporters had to be removed from court at the judge’s request. O’Connell is facing seven racial hatred charges relating to a 2009 altercation with two Jewish students in a supermarket where a Friends of Palestine protest was being staged against the sale of Israeli fruit. On the YouTube video, which is still available on the popular video-sharing website, O’Connell is allegedly recorded as saying that “You have a religion of racism, hate, homicide and ethnic cleansing” before calling one of the Jewish students a “racist Jew.” “You are a racist, homicidal maniac,” he said, adding that “I will put you in the camps with the rest of them.” Western Australia’s racial vilification laws were enacted in 2005. The maximum penalty for the offense is 14 years in jail or fines of up to $18,000. Yeshivat Rambam, a Baltimore Jewish day school will close its high school division at the end of the school year due to financial problems. The school, which opened 10 years ago, announced Sunday that it would close its high schools for boys and girls while working to strengthen the enrollment and retention of its middle and elementary schools, as well as its kindergarten and early childhood programs, the Baltimore Jewish Times reported. Sixty-three students are enrolled in the boys’ high school and 33 in the girls’ school. The total enrollment at Yeshivat Rambam is 350. Working to keep the high school going could jeopardize the entire school, Yeshivat Rambam President Abba David Poliakoff told the newspaper. In recent years the school has suffered cash flow and debt problems, the Baltimore Jewish Times reported. Poliakoff sent a letter home to school parents on Jan. 13 announcing the closing of the high school, saying that it has become apparent that the school could not financially sustain its current structure. “Rambam is laboring under a mountain of debt that has accumulated,” he wrote in the letter, which was reprinted in the newspaper. “The school struggles month to month, in uncertain economic times, hampered by cash flow deficiencies. All this and more prevent growth and effective maintenance of staffing and programming excellence in the high school and other divisions. A point has been reached where Yeshivat Rambam must be restructured to survive.”