Courtesy of JTA. Photo credit: Michael Kovac/WireImage/Getty ImagesAbe Foxman at an Anti-Defamation League event at […]
Category: Obituaries
Michael Tilson Thomas, famed conductor and scion of Yiddish theater, dies at 81
Courtesy of JTA. Photo credit: Hilary Scott/Courtesy Boston Symphony OrchestraMichael Tilson Thomas conducting the Boston […]
The ‘godfather of denim’ was an Italian designer whose Jewish father was murdered at Auschwitz
Courtesy of JTA. Photo credit: Benedetta Bressani/Getty ImagesAdriano Goldschmied attends Denim Première Vision 2025 at […]
Matan Koch, disability advocate who urged Jewish communities to ‘let everyone in,’ dies at 44
Courtesy of JTA. Photo credit: Screenshot from YouTubeMatan Koch speaks at Ikar, his Los Angeles […]
Rabbi Eliezer Diamond, beloved Jewish Theological Seminary professor and author, dies at 73
Courtesy of JTA. Photo credit: Jewish Theological SeminaryRabbi Eliezer B. Diamond, who taught at the […]
Eliot Engel, longtime NY congressman whose defeat augured a swell of anti-Israel sentiment, dies at 79
Courtesy of JTA. Photo credit: Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesFormer Representative Eliot Engel speaks […]
Remembering Sean Bartel
Sean Bartel, 48, died March 13, 2026, while hiking in Argentina. Born June 28, 1977, […]
Marshall Weinberg, 95: The JTA president who didn’t know what a blog was — but knew right from wrong
Courtesy of JTA. Photo credit: Courtesy JDCMarshall Weinberg reclines in his office in an undated […]
Elaine Grossinger Etess, third-generation owner of legendary Catskills resort, dies at 98
Courtesy of JTA. Photo credit: Courtesy Grossinger Etess familyElaine Grossinger Etess (second from right) with […]
Andrea Weiss, trailblazing Reform rabbi who merged scholarship and activism, dies at 60
Courtesy of JTA. Photo credit: Ellen DubinA photo of Andrea Weiss, former provost of Hebrew […]