Obituaries

Robert Gottlieb, legendary editor who championed Joseph Heller, Robert Caro and Chaim Potok, dies at 92

An early hit for the “Jew who knows nothing about Jewishness” was a novel about two Orthodox Jewish boys.

By Andrew Silow-Carroll June 15, 2023 10:24 am

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Pat Robertson, pastor who personified American Jews’ dilemma with evangelicals, dies at 93

The Southern Baptist minister’s admiration for Jews and Israel often came with the baggage of Jewish stereotypes.

June 9, 2023 8:30 am

Rabbi Gershon Edelstein, revered haredi leader in Israel, dies at 100

Edelstein was the head of a prestigious yeshiva and the spiritual leader of the Degel HaTorah political party.

May 30, 2023 6:15 pm

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As author Martin Amis died, a movie of his Holocaust novel ‘Zone of Interest’ wowed at Cannes

By Andrew Lapin May 22, 2023 2:51 pm

Sam Zell, Jewish billionaire whose media purchase tarnished a legendary career, dies at 81

By Andrew Silow-Carroll May 19, 2023 10:00 am

Rabbi Jonathan Omer-Man, pictured in 2011. (Screenshot from YouTube)

Jonathan Omer-Man, leader in Jewish meditation who met with the Dalai Lama, dies at 89

By Jackie Hajdenberg May 4, 2023 9:45 pm

Ideas

Meir Shalev and Yehonatan Geffen were Israeli cultural royalty. Their deaths leave a hole on the left.

By Gilad Halpern May 2, 2023 5:53 pm

Friends, colleagues and fans remember Rabbi Harold Kushner, whose voice ‘will continue to resonate’

By Andrew Silow-Carroll May 2, 2023 11:51 am

South African Jewish journalist Jeremy Gordin murdered in home burglary at 70

By Marcel Gascón Barberá May 1, 2023 5:08 pm

Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of ‘When Bad Things Happen to Good People,’ dies at 88

By Ben Harris and Philissa Cramer April 28, 2023 7:28 pm

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