Obituaries

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

The son of Holocaust survivors, Zell bought the Tribune Co. in 2007 and filed for bankruptcy a year later.

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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,”

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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