Isaiah Kuperstein, 70, was first director of education at US Holocaust museum A child of Holocaust survivors, Kuperstein also cared deeply about imparting Jewish culture and tradition to future generations.
Alby Kass, 89, klezmer musician who built Northern California Jewish community A native Yiddish speaker from the Bronx, Kass was one of the founders of the Russian River Jewish Community.
Rabbi A. Bruce Goldman, 84, antiwar gadfly unafraid of flouting Jewish mainstream Goldman supported Vietnam war protesters at Columbia University in the 1960s and performed intermarriages before it was commonplace.