Obituaries

Luiz Filipe Barbosa, leading Brazilian Israeli folk dance choreographer, dies at 52

The non-Jewish Barbosa fell in love with Israeli dance while attending a Jewish school and would go on to teach and choreograph for 35 years.

By Marcus M. Gilban August 12, 2020 12:48 pm

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Rabbi Adin Even-Israel (Steinsaltz) inspects at his Jerusalem home an English-language translation of the Talmud based on his annotations on June 4, 2018. (Wikimedia Commons/SoInkleined)

Adin Steinsaltz, acclaimed scholar who made the Talmud more accessible, dies at 83

Steinsaltz died Friday at 83, after years of declining health.

August 7, 2020 7:44 am

William Wolff, rabbi who served Germany’s Jews after fall of the Berlin Wall, dies at 93

Wolff’s family left Germany to escape the Nazis. He returned with a mission to serve the country’s remaining Jews.

July 13, 2020 9:43 am

James Leek, 75, contributed to progressive Jewish causes in London

By Liam Hoare June 30, 2020 3:58 pm

Carl Reiner

Carl Reiner, comedy legend and consummate old Jew telling jokes, dies at 98

By JTA Staff June 30, 2020 10:47 am

Ilia Salita, head of Genesis Philanthropy Group, dies

By Marcy Oster June 30, 2020 10:02 am

Joel Schumacher, director of ‘St. Elmo’s Fire’ and 2 ‘Batman’ films, dies at 80

By Marcy Oster June 23, 2020 2:31 pm

Israeli academic Zeev Sternhell, fascism expert and critic of the settler movement, dies at 85

By Marcy Oster June 22, 2020 11:58 am

Elsa Dorfman, photographer who was subject of Errol Morris film, dies at 83

By Penny Schwartz June 3, 2020 4:25 pm

Rabbi Norman Lamm, longtime head of Yeshiva University and prolific author, dies at 92

By Uriel Heilman May 31, 2020 12:12 pm

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