Obituaries

Al Erlick, longtime editor of the Philadelphia Jewish Exponent, is dead at 88

As editor, he insisted that the Jewish community newspaper include the bad news along with the good.

June 16, 2017 8:46 am

Sara Ehrman, Democratic party mainstay and Hillary mentor, dies at 98

Ehrman described herself as “first a Jew, second a Democrat and above all a feminist," according to the New York Times.

June 4, 2017 11:56 am

Eliezer Jaffe, a father of Israeli social work, dies at 83

He was a founder of Israel's first academic school of social work, the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and of the Israel Free Loan Society.

May 30, 2017 7:51 am

Israeli spy Shulamit Cohen-Kishik dies at 100

May 22, 2017 2:36 pm

Alan Mintz, Hebrew literature scholar and one-time student activist, is dead at 69

May 22, 2017 11:17 am

Nikos Stavroulakis, activist promoting Jewish life and heritage in Greece, dies

May 22, 2017 7:51 am

Rabbi Benny Elon, former Knesset member and champion of settlement movement, is dead at 62

May 5, 2017 6:57 am

Ruth Sulzberger Holmberg, newspaper publisher and civil right stalwart, dies at 96

April 21, 2017 4:56 am

Jesse Lurie, longtime Hadassah Magazine editor, dies at 103

April 14, 2017 11:32 am

Rabbi Saul Leeman, who marched with Martin Luther King to Montgomery, is dead at 100

April 13, 2017 4:15 pm

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Obituaries

Al Erlick, longtime editor of the Philadelphia Jewish Exponent, is dead at 88

Sara Ehrman, Democratic party mainstay and Hillary mentor, dies at 98

Eliezer Jaffe, a father of Israeli social work, dies at 83

Israeli spy Shulamit Cohen-Kishik dies at 100

Alan Mintz, Hebrew literature scholar and one-time student activist, is dead at 69

Nikos Stavroulakis, activist promoting Jewish life and heritage in Greece, dies

Rabbi Benny Elon, former Knesset member and champion of settlement movement, is dead at 62

Ruth Sulzberger Holmberg, newspaper publisher and civil right stalwart, dies at 96

Jesse Lurie, longtime Hadassah Magazine editor, dies at 103

Rabbi Saul Leeman, who marched with Martin Luther King to Montgomery, is dead at 100

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