Obituaries

Best-selling novelist Jackie Collins dies at 77

More than 500 million copies of her novels, most depicting the steamy lives of women in Hollywood, have been sold in 40 countries throughout the world.

September 20, 2015 10:20 am

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Philanthropist Larry Phillips, AJWS co-founder, dies

Phillips joined the board of an international relief organization but felt isolated as the only Jewish trustee, which led him to found a Jewish organization to undertake humanitarian relief efforts.

September 16, 2015 12:15 pm

Oliver Sacks, neurologist and ‘Awakenings’ author, dies at 82

“Awakenings,” about a group of patients with encephalitis, was turned into a popular film starring Robert De Niro and the late Robin Williams.

August 30, 2015 7:48 am

Gerald Bubis, Jewish communal service pioneer, dies at 91

August 23, 2015 7:01 am

Goldie Steinberg, reportedly the world’s oldest Jewish person, dies at 114

August 18, 2015 9:37 am

Orna Porat, grande dame of Israeli theater, dies at 91

August 7, 2015 6:48 am

Chief rabbi of Budapest, Robert Deutsch, dies at 59

August 5, 2015 10:05 am

Jan Kulczyk, a major funder of Poland’s Jewish museum, dies

July 29, 2015 11:30 am

Samuel Pisar, Holocaust survivor who was adviser to JFK, dies

July 28, 2015 10:28 am

Author E.L Doctorow dies at 84

July 22, 2015 6:11 am

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