Obituaries

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

A journalist recalls the career and brush with notoriety of Silverman, the founding rabbi of a Dallas congregation.

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Al Jaffee, iconic Mad Magazine cartoonist who also inked Chabad comic, dies at 102

The New Yorker’s outlook and work were influenced by his childhood spent partly in a shtetl in Lithuania.

Mimi Sheraton, pioneering food critic and scholar of the bialy, dies at 97

The Brooklyn-born maven’s books include “Is Salami and Eggs Better Than Sex?” and “The New York Times Jewish Cookbook.”

Ben Ferencz, Nuremberg prosecutor who devoted his life to preventing genocide, dies at 103

Seymour Stein with David Byrne and Madonna

Seymour Stein, Jewish music mogul who discovered Madonna and The Ramones, dies at 80

Margot Stern Strom, who founded pioneering Holocaust education program Facing History, dies at 81

Nathan Chavin, Jewish ad exec who wrote a raunchy country western hit, dies at 78

Abraham Zarem, one of the last surviving Manhattan Project scientists, dies at 106

Raphael Mechoulam, Israel’s ‘father of cannabis research,’ dies at 92

How the late actor Topol turned Tevye into a Zionist

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