Obituaries

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.

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.

Belda Lindenbaum, who worked to advance Orthodox women, dies

Lindenbaum, who according to the Jewish Women’s Archive “was driven by the birth of her daughters to create new opportunities for Jewish women and girls,” died Tuesday in her Manhattan home at the age of 76.

Dave Goldberg, Survey Monkey CEO and husband of Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, dies at 47

Alan Pollack, activist for Israel, dies at 77

Ex-Polish FM Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, recognized as Righteous Among the Nations, dies

Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, prominent modern Orthodox scholar, dies

Elio Toaff, chief rabbi of Rome for 51 years, dies at 99

Gunter Grass, Nobel Prize-winning author who served in Nazis’ Waffen-SS, dies

Bernice Tannenbaum, longtime Hadassah and Zionist leader, dies at 101

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