Body of renowned Arab-Israeli dancer Ayman Safiah found on beach The ballet dancer had gone missing on Sunday while swimming off the coast in Israel’s north. By Josefin Dolsten May 28, 2020 2:45 pm
Prominent AIDS activist Larry Kramer dies at 84 “In a way, like a lot of Jewish men of Larry’s generation, the Holocaust is a defining historical moment, and what happened in the early 1980s with AIDS felt, and was in fact, holocaustal to Larry,” Tony Kushner once said. May 27, 2020 1:11 pm
Aaron Rubashkin, 92, patriarch of troubled kosher meat empire Rubashkin opened a butcher shop in Brooklyn in 1953 and eventually presided over the largest kosher meat producer in the United States. May 27, 2020 10:07 am
Jerry Stiller was a mensch. He could act with the best of them, too. By Curt Schleier May 11, 2020 2:46 pm
Jerry Stiller, longtime comic who won fame on ‘Seinfeld,’ dies at 92 By Marcy Oster May 11, 2020 10:20 am
Gregory Zanis, who made Stars of David for Tree of Life victims, dies at 69 By Shira Hanau May 8, 2020 10:32 am
Alan Shestack, influential museum director and art history scholar, dies at 81 By Penny Schwartz April 28, 2020 12:30 pm