Tina Susan Rieger, the wife of United Jewish Communities’ president and CEO Howard Rieger, died April 11 of pancreatic cancer. She was 63. Rieger worked in both health care and the arts in three different countries. In her later life, she became a fiber artist. Her quilts, Jewish wedding canopies and other decorative pieces often depicted biblical and other natural themes. They are scheduled for exhibition later this year in galleries in Israel and in Pittsburgh, where she lived with her husband when he was the president of the United Jewish Federation.She died at Beth Israel Hospital in New York. “Tina Rieger was a remarkable woman whose contributions to the Jewish community and the world at large are cherished by so many,” said UJC Chair Joe Kanfer of Akron. “The UJC community deeply mourns her passing; our thoughts and prayers are with the Rieger family.”
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