Obituaries

Gerardo Sofovich, Argentine TV host and producer, dies at 77

Sofovich wrote and directed 11 movies, acted in two and wrote two screenplays. He also was the host of more than 20 television programs.

Behind those pointy ears, a ‘nice, earnest Jewish boy’

In 1991, JTA’s Tom Tugend sat down with Leonard Nimoy at his Bel Air home to discuss the actor’s flexibly Orthodox upbringing, his stints in the Yiddish theater and the “Star Trek” role with which he would become synonymous.

Adele Biton, 4, dies two years after Palestinian rock attack

Adele had remained in an unconscious state since the West Bank attack on her mother’s car in March 2013.

Lesley Gore, singer of ‘It’s My Party’ fame, dies

Israeli government minister Uri Orbach dies at 54

CBS News reporter Bob Simon killed in N.Y. car crash

Polish survivor Roman Frister, a former Haaretz editor, dies

British historian Sir Martin Gilbert, official Churchill biographer, dies

Rabbi Dovid Winiarz, popular N.Y. outreach rabbi, killed in car accident

Jack Polak, survivor who founded Anne Frank Center USA, dies at 102

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