Obituaries

Jimmy Carter, former president who brokered first Arab-Israeli peace accord, is dead at 100

The president who secured the Egyptian-Israeli peace accord in 1978 went on to become the target of vitriol for his warnings that Israel was headed toward apartheid.

Arlene Agus, New Yorker who popularized Rosh Chodesh rituals for Jewish women, dies at 75

A pioneering Jewish feminist and founding member of Minyan M’at on the Upper West Side.

Jewish Life Stories: One of the last ‘Ritchie Boys’ dies at 101

Other recent notable Jewish deaths include a Spanish fashion mogul, an iconic Israeli singer and a former refusenik at the center of a daring escape plot.