Goldie Steinberg, reportedly the world’s oldest Jewish person, dies at 114 Steinberg, who survived the 1903 Kishinev pogrom and was one of eight siblings, passed away in a New York nursing facility.
Orna Porat, grande dame of Israeli theater, dies at 91 A German convert to Judaism who immigrated to pre-state Israel in 1947, Porat was eulogized as ‘cultural giant’ by ex-President Shimon Peres.
Chief rabbi of Budapest, Robert Deutsch, dies at 59 Deutsch was nominated at the relatively young age of 28 to the post of director of the Budapest Rabbinate, and later head of the rabbinical board and chief rabbi.