Obituaries

Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, prominent modern Orthodox scholar, dies

The rabbi, head of the Har Etzion Yeshiva in the West Bank, was awarded the Israel Prize for Jewish Literature in 2014.

April 20, 2015 7:34 am

Toaff served as chief rabbi from 1951 to 2002 and is considered an important figure in the history of Italy and European Jewry.

April 20, 2015 6:05 am

Grass was declared a persona non grata in Israel in 2012 over a poem claiming that Israel endangered world peace by threatening Iran.

April 13, 2015 9:12 am

April 7, 2015 8:43 am

April 6, 2015 2:05 pm

April 5, 2015 8:21 am

March 30, 2015 2:18 pm

March 24, 2015 9:34 am

March 18, 2015 7:39 am

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