Obituaries

Jewish Life Stories: The producer who brought us ‘Sleepless in Seattle’

Other recent notable Jewish deaths include a beloved garden columnist and a Jewish scholar at a Jesuit university.

Felice Gaer, Jewish organization official who championed human rights for all, dies at 78

The director of the American Jewish Committee’s Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights sought to balance the universal and the particular.

Bernie Marcus, Home Depot founder who gave to Republicans and Israel, dies at 95

A top donor to all three Trump presidential campaigns, he boosted the fortunes of downtown Atlanta and supported health care and democracy in Israel.

Paul Mendes-Flohr, Israeli-American authority on Martin Buber, dies at 83

Walter Jacob, Pittsburgh rabbi who helped revive Reform Judaism in Germany, dies at 94

Phil Lesh, Grateful Dead bassist who hosted musical Passover seders, dies at 84

Yehuda Bauer, preeminent historian of the Holocaust, dies at 98

Adam Abeshouse, Jewish producer of classical recordings, dies at 63

Lily Ebert, Holocaust survivor who became a TikTok sensation, dies at 100

Jewish Life Stories: Columbia Hillel mourns Yakov Shapiro, 30, an Israeli emissary of ‘joy and warmth’

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