Obituaries

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

Growing up in a newspaper family who owns the New York Times, Holmberg was regarded as an outsider and interloper for her liberal positions as head of The Chattanooga Times and her Jewish roots.

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Jesse Lurie, longtime Hadassah Magazine editor, dies at 103

Lurie professionalized a publication run by volunteers and also worked as a correspondent for The Jerusalem Post; he also was an activist for Jewish-Arab coexistence in Israel.

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

Leeman was the longtime leader of Conservative congregations on Rhode Island and in Massachusetts, and helped found a Long Island synagogue.

Dr. Mark Wainberg, renowned AIDS researcher, drowns while vacationing in Florida for Passover

Don Rickles

Don Rickles, insult comedian and actor, is dead at 90

Masha Leon, Forward society columnist for 30 years, dies at 86

Ted Cutler, Boston philanthropist, businessman and arts patron, dies

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, whose ‘Babi Yar’ exposed anti-Semitism, dies at 84

Ingeborg Syllm-Rapoport, who earned doctorate 80 years after Nazis’ denial, dies at 104

Historian Elliott Horowitz, expert on Jewish violence, dies at 64

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