Obituaries

Charlie Biton, co-founder of Israeli Black Panthers and first Israeli to meet Arafat, dies at 76

Biton was a member of parliament for 15 years, serving as a symbol of persistent Mizrahi claims against Israel’s Ashkenazi-dominated ruling class.

By Asaf Elia-Shalev February 26, 2024 6:37 pm

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Shelly Weiss, Brooklyn ‘queer icon’ and progressive Jewish activist, dies at 77

The “first out lesbian in Park Slope” founded an agency that booked LGBTQ acts on college campuses.

February 26, 2024 2:48 pm

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Jewish Life Stories: A Jewish icon of NYC gay life, and the ‘Epstein’ in ‘Epstein-Barr virus’

In this week’s obituaries, a former cantor who ran the Continental Baths, and a scientist who isolated a common and still mysterious virus.

February 21, 2024 10:21 am

Chaya Chana Twersky, who helped her husband build a suburban haven for Skverer Hasidim, dies at 81

By Andrew Silow-Carroll February 20, 2024 3:59 pm

Robie Harris.

Jewish Life Stories: A much-banned kids’ book author, a neo-Hasidic Deadhead, the Jewish father of the artificial Christmas tree

By Andrew Silow-Carroll February 14, 2024 10:10 am

Rabbi Jules Harlow.

Rabbi Jules Harlow, editor of the prayer book used in Conservative synagogues for a quarter century, dies at 92

By Andrew Silow-Carroll February 13, 2024 3:15 pm

Robert Chazan, 87, NYU scholar of medieval Jewry who helped build field of Jewish studies

By Andrew Silow-Carroll February 13, 2024 11:06 am

Nina Gottlieb.

Nina Gottlieb, Holocaust survivor who told her story in an award-winning documentary, dies at 91

By Andrew Silow-Carroll February 7, 2024 5:12 pm

Hannah Deutch.

Jewish Life Stories: A nurse who met Churchill, a rabbi who warned about the Internet

By Andrew Silow-Carroll February 7, 2024 10:00 am

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Pearl Berg, world’s oldest Jewish person and 9th-oldest overall, dies at 114

By Andrew Silow-Carroll February 6, 2024 11:08 am

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