Obituaries

Gene Sosin, Radio Liberty director and WWII codebreaker, dies at 93

Sosin spent 33 years at Radio Liberty serving in various posts, and also was a writer, lecturer and specialist in Soviet affairs.

May 19, 2015 11:24 am

Elisabeth Bing, ‘mother of Lamaze,’ dies at 100

Bing, who fled Nazi Germany in 1933 due to her Jewish roots, worked with postpartum women before becoming became interested in teaching natural childbirth methods.

May 18, 2015 12:09 pm

Rabbi Moshe Levinger, a founder of the settlement movement, dies at 80

Levinger was one of the founders of the Gush Emunim movement, the national-religious movement established in 1974 that called for settlement of the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights to assert Israeli sovereignty.

May 17, 2015 7:05 am