Ruth Sulzberger Holmberg, newspaper publisher and civil right stalwart, dies at 96 Growing up in a newspaper family who owns the New York Times, Holmberg was regarded as an outsider and interloper for her liberal positions as head of The Chattanooga Times and her Jewish roots.
Rabbi Saul Leeman, who marched with Martin Luther King to Montgomery, is dead at 100 Leeman was the longtime leader of Conservative congregations on Rhode Island and in Massachusetts, and helped found a Long Island synagogue.
Ideas As allies of Martin Luther King, Jews must fight for the civil rights of Muslims When the civil rights of any community are compromised, Jews must speak out, writes the president of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding.