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. By Marcy Oster 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
Jackie Jakubowski, editor of Swedish Jewish magazine, dies at 68 Jakubowski served as editor-in-chief of the cultural magazine Judisk Krönika, or “Jewish Chronicle,” between 1980 and 2015. May 25, 2020 4:32 pm
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
Zalman Kossovsky, former chief rabbi of Zurich and a US Marines chaplain, dies at 80 By Sam Sokol April 20, 2020 2:59 pm