Obituaries

Rabbi David Posner, who served 40 years at flagship NYC Reform temple, dies at 70

Following his ordination, he was asked to join the rabbinical staff at Temple Emanu-El and never left.

October 22, 2018 4:16 pm

Ruth Matar, co-founder of Israeli women’s group opposing land concessions after Oslo, dies

Women in Green sought to counter media stereotypes by showing mothers, housewives and career women who could articulate opposition to the Oslo Accords.

October 22, 2018 2:28 pm

Robert Faurisson, a father of the Holocaust denial movement, dies at 89

The former literature professor was convicted several times for claiming there was no systematic mass killings of Jews by Nazi Germany.

October 22, 2018 11:08 am

Stefania Podgorska Burzminski, who hid 13 Jews in her attic in Poland, dies at 97

October 18, 2018 4:57 pm

Yaakov Weinroth, attorney who represented Netanyahu and other politicians, dies at 71

October 16, 2018 4:03 pm

Leon Lederman, Nobel-winning physicist who sold his prize to pay for medical expenses, dies at 96

October 4, 2018 3:13 pm

Walter Laqueur, the Holocaust survivor who reinvented terrorism studies, dies at 97

October 4, 2018 2:39 pm

Jefferson Airplane co-founder Marty Balin is dead at 76

October 4, 2018 2:35 pm

Sidney Shachnow, Holocaust survivor who went on to command US forces in Berlin, dies at 83

October 4, 2018 10:52 am

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Clara Kramer, who survived Holocaust hidden in an underground bunker, dies at 91

September 27, 2018 7:06 am

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Obituaries

Rabbi David Posner, who served 40 years at flagship NYC Reform temple, dies at 70

Ruth Matar, co-founder of Israeli women’s group opposing land concessions after Oslo, dies

Robert Faurisson, a father of the Holocaust denial movement, dies at 89

Stefania Podgorska Burzminski, who hid 13 Jews in her attic in Poland, dies at 97

Yaakov Weinroth, attorney who represented Netanyahu and other politicians, dies at 71

Leon Lederman, Nobel-winning physicist who sold his prize to pay for medical expenses, dies at 96

Walter Laqueur, the Holocaust survivor who reinvented terrorism studies, dies at 97

Jefferson Airplane co-founder Marty Balin is dead at 76

Sidney Shachnow, Holocaust survivor who went on to command US forces in Berlin, dies at 83

Clara Kramer, who survived Holocaust hidden in an underground bunker, dies at 91

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