Obituaries

Princeton’s Rabbi James Diamond dies in traffic accident

Rabbi James Diamond, the retired director of Princeton University’s Center for Jewish Life, died in a traffic accident after leaving a breakfast Talmud study group.

Helen Kutsher, a Borscht Belt matriarch, dies at 89

Helen Kutsher, the face of her family-owned resort in the Catskill Mountains for decades, has died.

Zionist leader Jacques Torczyner dies

Jacques Torczyner, a former national president of the Zionist Organization of America, has died.

Newborn son of N.Y. car crash victims dies

Stephane Hessel, Jewish anti-capitalist activist, dies

Jewish scholar Rabbi David Hartman dies

Menachem Elon, former Supreme Court justice and Israel Prize winner, dies

Murdered Jewish urologist Ronald Gilbert buried in L.A.

Ed Koch, pugnacious New Yorker and passionate Jew till his dying day

Jewish groups mourn passing of human rights negotiator Max Kampelman

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