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.
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.
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.