Obituaries

Kobe Bryant’s father Joe, who once coached a Jewish girls basketball team, dies at 69

Joe Bryant, a former NBA player who died Monday, was remembered as a gentle giant by people who knew him at the former Akiba Hebrew Academy in Philadelphia.

Jewish Life Stories: David Liederman, the father of ‘David’s Cookies,’ dies at 75

Recent deaths include the ‘Jewish grandma’ who helped write the rules on biotechnology research, and an astronomer who mapped the Solar System.

Ruth Westheimer, Holocaust survivor who offered grandmotherly sex advice as ‘Dr. Ruth,’ dies at 96

The future radio star last saw her father from her apartment window, as he was arrested by Nazis.

Mordechai Rosenstein, calligrapher whose art illuminates Jewish homes and synagogues, dies at 90

Jewish Life Stories: An Israeli-American soldier falls in battle

Jewish Life Stories: The Jewish refugee who wrote the book on human rights

Rabbi Burt Jacobson, social activist and founder of Bay Area Renewal synagogue, dies at 87

Remembering Rabbi Andrew Sacks, 70, a ‘rabble-rouser’ who fought for religious pluralism in Israel

Kinky Friedman, singer and novelist who fronted The Texas Jewboys, dies at 79

Jewish Life Stories: Houston mourns a ‘PR Fairy’ killed in a fall

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