Ivan Boesky, financier whose downfall led to a Jewish communal reckoning, dies at 87 The Wall Street mogul inspired the character of Gordon Gekko and came to epitomize the excesses of the go-go 1980s. By Andrew Silow-Carroll May 20, 2024 3:38 pm
Yael Dayan, Israeli writer, politician, peace activist and general’s daughter, dies at 85 The daughter of Moshe Dayan served three terms in the Knesset and was one of the leaders of Peace Now. May 20, 2024 1:52 pm
Jewish Life Stories: Bob Dylan’s house photographer, and the TV reporter who got under Mel Gibson’s skin “We were like cousins,” Daniel Kramer said of his time with Bob Dylan. “Working with Dylan was like working with me.” May 15, 2024 2:26 pm
Jewish Life Stories: A voice for women in an age of ‘Mad Men,’ and a legend in the world of crossword puzzles By Andrew Silow-Carroll May 8, 2024 12:05 pm
Jewish novelist Paul Auster, bard of Brooklyn, dies at 77 By Andrew Silow-Carroll May 1, 2024 12:17 pm
Jerome Rothenberg, Bronx-born poet whose ‘ethnopoetics’ inspired scholars and rock stars, dies at 92 By Jon Kalish April 29, 2024 10:01 am
Jewish Life Stories: A pioneering woman comic book artist, a British children’s book author who raised three Israeli sons By Andrew Silow-Carroll April 23, 2024 2:00 pm
Rabbi Albert Thaler, founding director of Ramah Nyack day camp, dies at 91 By Andrew Silow-Carroll April 22, 2024 4:19 pm
The Upper West Side mourns Tom Weiss, a congressman’s son and ‘master of chesed’ By Julia Gergely April 18, 2024 5:06 pm
Ken Holtzman, winningest Jewish pitcher in MLB history, dies at 78 By Jacob Gurvis April 15, 2024 9:15 pm