Obituaries

Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, leading halachic authority, dies at 102

Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, the leader of the Lithuanian haredi Orthodox and considered this generation’s leading halachic authority, has died.

By Marcy Oster July 18, 2012 2:43 pm

Milton Gralla, a Jewish philanthropist and longtime publisher of business magazines, died in Boca Raton, Fla., on July 11. He was 84.

July 17, 2012 9:12 pm

Yitzhak Shamir said little, but it carried weight, his American interlocutors say in remembrances of the late prime minister.

July 2, 2012 8:04 pm

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