Inspiring Jews who died in 5779 This year the task of remembering the departed is particularly fraught: Twelve people on the list were lost to acts of violence in U.S. synagogues. By JTA Staff September 23, 2019 2:58 pm
Austria’s oldest Holocaust survivor dies at 106 Marko Feingold continued to speak, especially to school children, about his experiences in the Holocaust until the end, the AFP reported. September 22, 2019 12:54 pm
Pioneering journalist Cokie Roberts, who with her husband wrote about their interfaith marriage, dies The couple’s book “From This Day Forward” candidly tells the story of their marriage, and they also wrote an interfaith Haggadah. September 17, 2019 1:17 pm
Robert Frank, influential photographer best known for his book ‘The Americans,’ dies at 94 By Marcy Oster September 10, 2019 3:14 pm
How Valerie Harper’s Rhoda embodied a very Jewish type By Andrew Silow-Carroll September 3, 2019 4:12 pm
Peter Sheft, financial adviser and 70 Faces Media board member, dies at 63 By JTA Staff August 30, 2019 4:53 pm
Kenneth Bialkin, longtime Jewish leader and philanthropist, dies at 89 By Ron Kampeas August 23, 2019 3:15 pm
Rabbi Reuven Hammer, a pioneer of Conservative Judaism in Israel, dies at 86 By Sam Sokol August 12, 2019 2:46 pm
Morton Bahr, who led Communications Workers of America, is dead at 93 By JTA Staff August 2, 2019 1:44 pm