Obituaries

Rabbi Michael Cook, who helped Jews navigate the New Testament, dies at 79

Cook estimated that he had taught more than a thousand students who were now spread throughout North America in various roles administering to the Jewish community.

By Ron Kampeas March 30, 2021 7:02 pm

Morris Dickstein, literary critic and public intellectual, dies at 81

One of the last survivors of a generation of “New York intellectuals” who waged cerebral combat in small magazines like Partisan Review.

March 30, 2021 1:49 pm

Jessica Walter, Jewish actress known for roles in ‘Arrested Development’ and ‘Archer,’ dies at 80

She was best known in recent years as Lucille Bluth, the manipulative matriarch on “Arrested Development,” but had a decades-long career.

March 25, 2021 4:16 pm

George Segal, vanguard of 1960s wave of young Jewish actors, dies at 87

By Ron Kampeas March 24, 2021 3:41 pm

After losing her father, this NY paramedic went back to work responding to COVID calls

By Philissa Cramer March 22, 2021 10:53 am

James Levine, cantor’s grandson who led the Metropolitan Opera for 40 years, is dead at 77

By Andrew Silow-Carroll March 17, 2021 12:21 pm

Yaphet Kotto, ‘Homicide’ and ‘Alien’ actor who was one of the first Black Jews on screen, dies at 81

By Philissa Cramer March 16, 2021 9:14 am

Jewlia Eisenberg, musical intellectual and Jewish radical, dies at 50

By Asaf Elia-Shalev March 15, 2021 4:23 pm

Carl Shapiro, Brandeis benefactor who lost millions to Madoff, dies at 108

By Penny Schwartz March 15, 2021 10:46 am

Stacey Zisook Robinson, 59, poet who was fulfilling a lifelong dream to become a rabbi

By Ben Harris March 9, 2021 5:11 pm

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Obituaries

Rabbi Michael Cook, who helped Jews navigate the New Testament, dies at 79

Morris Dickstein, literary critic and public intellectual, dies at 81

Jessica Walter, Jewish actress known for roles in ‘Arrested Development’ and ‘Archer,’ dies at 80

George Segal, vanguard of 1960s wave of young Jewish actors, dies at 87

After losing her father, this NY paramedic went back to work responding to COVID calls

James Levine, cantor’s grandson who led the Metropolitan Opera for 40 years, is dead at 77

Yaphet Kotto, ‘Homicide’ and ‘Alien’ actor who was one of the first Black Jews on screen, dies at 81

Jewlia Eisenberg, musical intellectual and Jewish radical, dies at 50

Carl Shapiro, Brandeis benefactor who lost millions to Madoff, dies at 108

Stacey Zisook Robinson, 59, poet who was fulfilling a lifelong dream to become a rabbi

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