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DR. RICHARD A. FREUND Dr. Richard A. Freund passed away peacefully on July 14, 2022, at age 67, in Charlottesville, Virginia. A graveside service was held on July 17, 2022, at the Jewish Cemetery of the Virginia Peninsula, in Hampton, Virginia. He was preceded in death by nephews, Josh and Glenn. He is survived his wife Eliane; his three children, Eli, Ethan, and Yoni; sisters and brothers-in-law, Andrea and Richard Eisen and Sharon and Jody Rockmaker and brother and sister-in-law, Charles and Renee Freund; brother-in-law and sister-in law, Arthur and Liz Goldgaber; father-in-law and mother-in law, Alberto and Berta Goldgaber; and nieces and nephews, Rebecca, Hannah, Clifford, and Sam. Born to the late Chester Freund and Beatrice Berkowitz in Long Island, NY, Richard lived in Franklin Square and graduated from Valley Stream North High School in 1972 at 17 years old. Determined to learn more about Jewish history and culture, he booked a one-way ticket to Israel where he studied, learned Israeli dancing, and practiced what he excelled at-running. He famously tells the story of trying out for the Israeli Olympic Track Team in 1972 but missing it by a split second. He met the love of his life, Eliane, a decade later, in Israel, on a post-doctoral grant, and they got married in 1983. For nearly 40 years, Richard worked as a professor in Jewish history and archaeology, starting at Oberlin College and traveling to the University of Denver, the University of California-San Diego, the Seminario Rabinico Latinoamericano, the University of Nebraska at Omaha, the University of Hartford, and finally ended his career
at Christopher Newport University in Virginia. Through his time in academia, he mentored thousands of students and collaborated with countless other faculty members from across the country in pursuit of answers to some of our history’s greatest questions. For some, teaching and writing would have been enough, but Richard lived the equivalent of three lives-pursuing the field of biblical archaeology and trying to solve humanity’s greatest mysteries. He directed over a dozen archaeological projects at Bethsaida, Mary’s Well in Nazareth, and climbed the caves of Qumran in search of the Dead Sea Scrolls, all located in the State of Israel. Later in life, he traveled to Spain to discover the Lost City of Atlantis, which got him featured in a documentary produced by James Cameron. After that, he made key discoveries in the Ponar Burial Pits and the Great Synagogue of Vilna, Lithuania. In total, his work was featured in over 20 documentaries from National Geographic, Discovery, History Channel, and many others. His work was also chronicled in the New York Times, Time Magazine, BBC, MSNBC, and hundreds more news outlets. In one of the peak moments of his life, he presented St. Peter’s key, found at Bethsaida, to Pope John Paul II in 2000. Memorials may be made to Rodef Sholom Temple in Newport News, the Betram and Gladys Aaron Professorship of Jewish Studies at Christopher Newport University, or the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
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