Obituaries

Alan Hevesi, tarnished NYC pol who championed Holocaust restitution, dies at 83

The former city comptroller pressured banks to provide restitution before pleading guilty to unrelated corruption charges.

By Andrew Silow-Carroll November 13, 2023 1:47 pm

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Jenessa Schwartz, Bay Area day school teacher and cancer ‘thriver,’ dies at 41

“I get to choose how things end, and that sounds like winning to me,” she wrote in a blog about her cancer.

November 6, 2023 5:05 pm

Ady Barkan attends the Los Angeles Supports a Dream Act Now! protest at the office of California Senator Dianne Feinstein on January 3, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Gabriel Olsen/Getty Images)

Ady Barkan, healthcare activist who fought Lou Gehrig’s disease, dies at 39

The Israeli-American lawyer threw his body, quite purposely, into the fight for single-payer health coverage.

November 2, 2023 9:18 am

Gershon Hundert, renowned scholar of Polish Jewry, dies at 77

By Andrew Silow-Carroll October 31, 2023 6:13 pm

A Harry Potter fan’s murder reverberates from Israel to Boston

By Penny Schwartz October 29, 2023 6:28 pm

Ideas

My Israel Scouts leader died defending our country. I won’t let him be a statistic.

By Benjamin Siegel October 23, 2023 4:41 pm

Israeli-American reservist killed by Hezbollah rocket just days after being called back to Israel

By Philissa Cramer October 23, 2023 8:35 am

Samantha Woll

Samantha Woll, Detroit synagogue president, found stabbed to death outside her home

By Ron Kampeas October 21, 2023 7:46 pm

Actress and teacher Joanna Merlin, original Tzeitel in Broadway’s ‘Fiddler,’ dies at 92

By Andrew Silow-Carroll October 16, 2023 4:24 pm

Louise Gluck

Jewish poet Louise Glück, who won Nobel literature prize, dies at 80

By Andrew Silow-Carroll October 16, 2023 10:05 am

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