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For those who don’t know Rabbi Jacob Staub, it’s hard to imagine that someone who has been a rabbi for the past 45 years, at one point, didn’t want to be Jewish at all. For Staub, 71, director of the ...

Rabbi Jacob Lantz, 91, died Sunday, September 20, 2009, at home in Bridgeport, Conn. Born in Poland, a son of the late Rabbi Isaac and Ida Einstein Lantz, he was the spiritual leader of Temple Shalom ...

Rabbi Jacob “Jack” Pressman has always been an entertainer. He’s charming and funny — quite the talented singer — and possesses a flare for stage drama so becoming that at times it seems as if his ...

Chaim (Herbert) Roberts, 87, of DeWitt, died Sunday, according to his obituary. He was originally from Boston but had been a DeWitt area resident for nearly 50 years. Fifty years ago, Roberts, along ...

PITTSBURGH — Rabbi Walter Jacob, who 60 years after he left Germany as a refugee returned to help revive its Liberal Jewish community, died Oct. 20 at his home in Pittsburgh. He was 94. The longtime ...