Obituaries

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

Omer-Man’s meeting with the Dalai Lama in 1990 was described in Rodger Kamenetz’s best-selling book “The Jew in the Lotus,”

By Jackie Hajdenberg May 4, 2023 9:45 pm

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

The novelist and the songwriter, both shaped by their youths in the same pioneering community, died within days of each other.

May 2, 2023 5:53 pm

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

The author of “When Bad Things Happen to Good People” left a legacy of personal kindness and comforting theology.

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

Jerry Springer, son of Jewish refugees whose eponymous talk show was known for conflict, dies at 79

By Andrew Silow-Carroll April 27, 2023 1:09 pm

Harry Belafonte, singer and civil rights activist who popularized ‘Hava Nagila’ in the US, dies at 96

By Lisa Keys April 25, 2023 3:43 pm

The fuzzy, neurotic, unmistakably Jewish legacy of cartoonist Ed Koren

By Andrew Silow-Carroll April 23, 2023 6:45 am

Hedda Kleinfeld Schachter, Holocaust survivor and bridal empire builder, dies at 99

By Jackie Hajdenberg April 14, 2023 4:08 pm

Hillel Silverman, longtime rabbi whose congregant killed JFK’s assassin, is dead at 99

By Steve North April 12, 2023 11:00 am

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