Obituaries

Romi Cohn

Rabbi Romi Cohn, a Holocaust rescuer who delivered prayer in Congress, dies of coronavirus at 92

The New Yorker also was a mohel and performed some 3,000 ritual circumcisions for free. He taught dozens of others provided they didn’t charge.

By Marcy Oster March 24, 2020 3:06 pm

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. (Courtesy of Chabad.org)

Yehuda Yaakov Refson, a senior rabbi in England, dies of coronavirus

The longtime Chabad emissary to the northern city of Leeds was 73.

March 24, 2020 1:56 pm

Giorgio

Giorgio Sinigaglia, 54, volunteered in Milan’s Jewish community

(JTA) — Giorgio Sinigaglia was a father of four and an engineer who volunteered in the Jewish community of Milan, Italy, where he lived. The city’s Jewish communal life organization reported that Sinigaglia died of complications of the coronavirus on March 23. Dozens eulogized the 54-year-old Sinigaglia on the community’s website article about his death […]

March 24, 2020 1:46 pm

Giorgio Sinigaglia attending the writing of a Torah scroll in Milan, Italy. (Courtesy of the Jewish Community of Milan)

Giorgio Sinigaglia, 54, was a father of 4 and volunteer in Milan’s Jewish community

By Cnaan Liphshiz March 24, 2020 1:04 pm

Andre Touboul in 2014. (Courtesy of Beth Hanna)

In Paris, a pillar of Jewish education dies from the coronavirus

By Cnaan Liphshiz March 23, 2020 5:26 pm

First Israeli coronavirus fatality, a Holocaust survivor, is buried with social distancing

By Ron Kampeas March 23, 2020 4:47 pm

Last surviving German recognized by Yad Vashem as righteous gentile for Holocaust heroism dies

By Marcy Oster March 23, 2020 2:44 pm

James Lipton, longtime host of ‘Inside the Actor’s Studio,’ dies at 93

By Marcy Oster March 3, 2020 2:27 pm

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who kept the peace with Israel for 30 years, dies

By Marcy Oster February 25, 2020 3:01 pm

Larry Tesler

Larry Tesler, inventor of copy and paste functions, dies at 74

By Ben Harris February 21, 2020 11:36 am

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