Obituaries

Reuven Bulka, Ottawa rabbi behind a Canadian week dedicated to kindness, dies at 77

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called Bulka “Canada’s rabbi,” saying he “inspired Jewish Canadians and people across the country.”

Janet Malcolm, famed New Yorker writer whose family fled the Nazis, dies at 86

“Many years later, I came to acknowledge and treasure my Jewishness. But during childhood and adolescence I hated and resented and hid it,” she wrote in a 2018 essay.

Herb Sturz, driver of criminal justice reform in New York City and beyond, dies at 90

Sturz was an early advocate of bail reform whose efforts have been influential for decades.

Jaime Lerner, renowned Brazilian-Jewish urban planner and politician, dies at 83

Roman Kent, Holocaust survivor who negotiated billions in restitution, dies at 92

Charles Grodin, Jewish comic actor known for ‘The Heartbreak Kid’ and ‘Beethoven,’ dies at 86

Former congressman Lester Wolff, known for surviving assassination threats and supporting Israel, dies at 102

Faye Schulman, Holocaust survivor whose photographs documented the partisan resistance, dies at 101

Marcel Keinan, a jobs ‘guru’ in Israel for his native Brazilians, dies at 68

Yosef Kleinman, the youngest survivor to testify at Eichmann trial, dies at 91

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