Obituaries

Stanley Abramowitz, longtime JDC relief worker, dies at 93

Stanley Abramowitz, who worked for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee for 65 years and was involved in many of its major operations, has died at 93.

Oldest survivor dies

Reuters reports that Leopold Engleitner, reportedly the oldest known survivor of the Nazi concentration camps, has died. He was 107. Engleitner, a conscientious objector whose life was documented in the book and film “Unbroken Will”, was imprisoned in the Buchenwald, Niederhagen and Ravensbrueck camps between 1939 and 1943. He refused to renounce his Jehovah’s Witness […]

Fred Lafer, longtime Jewish leader, dies

Fred Lafer, a longtime leader of several Jewish institutions, has died. He served as president and chairman of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy beginning in 2000. He also was chairman of the executive committee of the Shalom Hartman Institute of Jerusalem’s board of directors.

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Obituaries

Stanley Abramowitz, longtime JDC relief worker, dies at 93

Oldest survivor dies

Fred Lafer, longtime Jewish leader, dies

Philanthropist Jack Kay of Florida dies

Karel van Oordt, Dutch founder of Christians for Israel, dies at 84

Carmen Weinstein, head of Egypt’s Jewish community, dies

Yaakov Yosef, influential rabbi and son of Shas spiritual leader, dies

N.Y. Times reporter who uncovered Klansman’s Jewish background dies

Former British PM Margaret Thatcher, ‘staunch friend of Israel,’ dies

Former Maariv editor Amnon Dankner dies at 67

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