Obituaries

Jewish Life Stories: A refusenik who found literary freedom in America, and a rabbi’s wife who died after giving birth to twins

Andrea Termotto was described as someone for whom “l’chaim” was a “mantra and a motto.”

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Heather Conn Hendel, 48, teacher, caregiver, matchmaker and newlywed, dies days after giving birth

Conn Hendel was very involved in her New York City synagogue before moving shortly before her death to Toronto.

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Frieda Johles Forman, ‘fiery’ feminist who rediscovered Yiddish women authors, dies at 87

Morrie Markoff, Jewish supercentenarian and oldest man in US, dies at 110

The funeral procession of Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, June 5, 2024. (Luke Tress)

Crown Heights mourns Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, a pivotal figure in Chabad’s global outreach

Joe Schein.

Jewish Life Stories: Princeton’s longest-lived alumnus dies at 109

David Levy Israel

David Levy, a voice for Mizrahi Israelis as politician and foreign minister, dies at 86

Marc Klein, Bay Area editor who led Jewish journalism into the digital age, dies at 75

Ella Adler.

Jewish Life Stories: Florida mourns a Jewish teen killed in a boating accident

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