The Shofar joins the membership in mourning the deaths of Paul Mueller, brother of Tim Mueller, a close friend of our shul; and also Elaine Schwartz, a friend of many in our shul. Elaine was killed in an auto accident this month. A celebration of her life was held on August 23.

In the early 1970s, Nadine Taub was one of a cadre of young female lawyers breaking new ground by fighting gender discrimination. Along with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Nancy Stearns and others, she made legal history in cases that successfully argued that equal rights for women were protected under the Constitution. She litigated cases for rape victims, for women seeking access to abortion, and for employees battling workplace discrimination and sexual harassment. Ms. Taub, 77, a [...]

Reese Schonfeld, who founded the Cable News Network (CNN) with Ted Turner in the early 1980s before developing another major cable channel, the Food Network, a decade later, died July 28 at his home in Manhattan. He was 88. Mr. Turner and Mr. Schonfeld gambled that CNN could effectively challenge the three main broadcast networks in their news coverage, which at the time consisted largely of 30-minute evening newscasts. In 1975, he started the Independent [...]

Martha Nierenberg had barely turned 20 when she was bundled off a train in central Hungary and hidden by nuns in a Roman Catholic hospital. It was March 1944, and a Nazi occupying force that included Adolf Eichmann would immediately embark on the annihilation of 500,000 Hungarian Jews. Mrs. Nierenberg, who was born into one of Hungary’s wealthiest families, evaded capture for two months before friends assured her she could venture home. There she learned [...]