Obituaries

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

John McCandlish Phillips Jr., a longtime New York Times reporter who wrote about a Jewish man who became a senior Ku Klux Klan official, has died.

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

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who was considered a good friend of Israel despite a rocky relationship with Prime Minister Menachem Begin, has died.

Former Maariv editor Amnon Dankner dies at 67

Amnon Dankner, the former editor in chief of the daily Hebrew newspaper Maariv, has died.

Princeton’s Rabbi James Diamond dies in traffic accident

Helen Kutsher, a Borscht Belt matriarch, dies at 89

Zionist leader Jacques Torczyner dies

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

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