Obituaries

Hundreds in Georgia mourn Jewish soldier killed in Afghanistan

Army Ranger Christopher Celiz was wounded by enemy small-arms fire while helping to support a medical evacuation landing zone.

July 20, 2018 11:20 am

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Richard Siegel, educator who co-edited ‘The Jewish Catalog,’ is dead at 70

After creating a bible for the Jewish counterculture, he went on to champion Jewish culture and arts and train a generation of Jewish professionals.

July 13, 2018 3:39 pm

Claude Lanzmann, filmmaker behind famed Holocaust documentary ‘Shoah,’ dies at 92

The French Jew's exhaustive focus on survivor testimony changed the way the genocide was depicted on screen and in collective memory.

July 5, 2018 6:13 am

Charles Krauthammer

Charles Krauthammer, conservative columnist who fiercely defended Israel, is dead at 68

June 21, 2018 10:31 pm

Charles Krauthammer says he has weeks to live

June 8, 2018 2:00 pm

Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain, celebrity chef and TV host, is dead at 61

June 8, 2018 9:31 am

LGBT activist Connie Kurtz, who won equal rights for gay New Yorkers, dies at 81

May 30, 2018 3:21 pm

Elaine Holstein, last surviving parent of the four Kent State shooting victims, dies at 96

By Steve North May 28, 2018 6:40 am

Jackie Gothard, who led rebuilding of New Orleans congregation after Hurricane Katrina, has died

May 24, 2018 12:48 pm

Philip Roth, enfant terrible turned peerless chronicler of American Jewish life, is dead at 85

May 23, 2018 12:04 am

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