Courtesy of JTA. Photo credit: Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tony Awards ProductionsTom Stoppard accepts the […]
Category: Obituaries
Frank Gehry, renowned architect who began life as Frank Goldberg, dies at 96
Courtesy of JTA. Photo credit: Presley Ann/Getty Images for The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)Frank […]
Mark Mellman, pollster who championed Democrats and Israel, dies at 70
Courtesy of JTA. Photo credit: Tom Williams/Roll Call/Getty ImagesPollster and Democratic strategist Mark Mellman in […]
Myra Dee Winterfeldt
Myra Dee Kaminsky Winterfeldt, 82, of Cincinnati, Ohio, passed away peacefully on December 3, 2025. […]
Daniel Naroditsky, Jewish chess grandmaster and influential streamer, dies at 29
Courtesy of JTA. Photo credit: Wikimedia CommonsDaniel Naroditsky playing in a chess tournament in 2016 […]
Rabbi Alvin Kass, longest-serving NYPD chaplain famed for 9/11 response, dies at 89
Courtesy of JTA. Photo credit: Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesNew York City Police Department […]
Katherine Janus Kahn, illustrator of ‘Sammy Spider’ Jewish children’s books, dies at 83
Courtesy of JTA. Photo credit: ScreenshotKatherine Janus Kahn, the illustrator of the Sammy Spider Jewish […]
Nancy Helen Klein
Klein, Nancy Helen Cohen Hahn, 20 August 1939 – 8 November 2025. Loving wife of […]
Susan Stamberg, iconic Jewish ‘founding mother’ of NPR, dies at 87
Courtesy of JTA. Photo credit: Tommaso Boddi/WireImageSusan Stamberg is honored with a star on The […]
Zabar’s devoted fans mourn Saul Zabar, who transformed his family’s Jewish grocery into an NYC institution
Courtesy of JTA. Photo credit: Marc A. Hermann / MTASaul Zabar celebrates Zabar’s 90th anniversary […]