(JTA) — “My goal,” wrote Bernie Steinberg when he won the prestigious Covenant Award for […]
Category: Obituaries
Ellen Marcia Steiner
STEINER, Ellen Marcia, née Kuby, age 74, passed away on January 15th 2024, beloved wife […]
Boston writer Norm Finkelstein, whose YA books championed Jewish heroes, dies at 82
(JTA) — In the early 1980s, when Norman H. Finkelstein was the director of education […]
Herb Kohl, former Jewish senator from Wisconsin and Milwaukee Bucks owner, dies at 88
(JTA) — Herb Kohl, the longtime Jewish senator from Wisconsin who loved his Milwaukee hometown […]
Former Mossad chief Zvi Zamir dead at 98
(JNS) — Former Mossad director Zvi Zamir died in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, aged 98. […]
Guy Stern, WWII ‘Ritchie Boy’ who became renowned Holocaust scholar, dies at 101
(JTA) — Guy Stern, a German Jewish refugee who was one of the last known […]
Neil Drossman, ad writer famous for his wit and wordplay, dies at 83
(JTA) — Neil Drossman, who began his career in copywriting at the tail end of […]
Rabbi Martin Rozenberg, scholar who helped found Reform’s Camp Harlam, is dead at 95
(JTA) — Martin S. Rozenberg, a rabbi and Bible scholar who convinced one of his […]
Remembering Rabbi David Ellenson
Submitted by HUC-JIR Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) shares with great sorrow the […]
Shlomo Avineri, dovish Israeli political philosopher and public intellectual, dies at 90
(JTA) — Shlomo Avineri, a leading Israeli political philosopher, left-leaning former director-general of the country’s […]