The Shofar joins the membership in mourning the death of Rabbi Myron Fenster, who served as interim rabbi of our congregation from August 2008 to July 2012. Those who knew the rabbi will recall that he served joyously with distinction illumined by a touch of good humor. Rabbi Fenster died Wednesday, Aug. 31, and was interred at the Beth David Cemetery in Elmont, NY, following funeral services in the sanctuary of the Shelter Rock Jewish [...]

Dr. Ronald J. Glasser, an Army physician who wrote the acclaimed book, 365 Days, a scorching account of the war in Vietnam through the words of the soldiers who were wounded there, died on Aug. 26 in. St. Louis Park, MN. He was 83. Dr. Glasser was opposed to the war when he was drafted in August 1968. He was assigned to a hospital in Zama, Japan, one of four frenetic Army hospitals in Japan [...]

Peter Straub, whose literary novels of terror, mystery and the supernatural placed him in the top ranks of the horror-fiction boom of the 1970s and ‘80s, died September 4 in Manhattan. He was 79. Mr. Straub was both a master of his genre and an anxious occupant of it, the New York Times said. Novels like Julia (1975) and Ghost Story (1979) helped revivify a once-creaking field, even though he insisted that his work transcended [...]

William Klein, a photographer who captured the energy as well as the glamour of New York, died Sept. 10, in Paris. He was 96. Mr. Klein was one of his generation’s most celebrated photographers, represented in museums across Europe and the United States. Mr. Klein began his career as a restless postwar American in Paris, who took a studio on the Left Bank, defied traditions and plunged into his anarchic visions of painting, sculpture, street [...]