Gunter Grass, Nobel Prize-winning author who served in Nazis’ Waffen-SS, dies Grass was declared a persona non grata in Israel in 2012 over a poem claiming that Israel endangered world peace by threatening Iran.
Bernice Tannenbaum, longtime Hadassah and Zionist leader, dies at 101 Tannenbaum was a former national president of Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America and earned the group’s highest honor for her legacy of contributions.
Norman Leventhal, philanthropist and leader in Boston’s development, dies Leventhal is responsible for what are now major Boston landmarks and made a profound mark on Jewish institutions.