Obituaries

Gerald Bubis, Jewish communal service pioneer, dies at 91

Bubis established the School of Jewish Communal Service, now the Zelikow School of Jewish Nonprofit Management, at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion’s Los Angeles campus in 1968.

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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

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

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

Author E.L Doctorow dies at 84

Theodore Bikel, Tevye in ‘Fiddler on the Roof,’ dies at 91

Pilot Louis Lenart, ‘The Man Who Saved Tel Aviv,’ dies at 94

Burt Shavitz, Jewish co-founder of Burt’s Bees, dies at 80

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