Obituaries

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

Goldberg, whose cloud-based company helped organizations conduct surveys, died suddenly.

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Alan Pollack, activist for Israel, dies at 77

Pollack, a leading Zionist activist from the 1960s to the 1980s, joined the JTA board in 1979.

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

Bartoszewski had been sent to Auschwitz in 1940 because of his social activism and later became involved in the Polish resistance.

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

Norman Leventhal, philanthropist and leader in Boston’s development, dies

1 trampled to death, 3 critically hurt at haredi rabbi’s funeral in Israel

Gene Saks, award-winning director who worked with Neil Simon, dies at 93

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