Obituaries

Bess Myerson, only Jewish Miss America, dead at 90

Myerson, who was 90, also was a spokeswoman for the Anti-Defamation League and donated $1.1 million to help found the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York.

Ruth Popkin, former national president of Hadassah and JNF, dies

Popkin, also the first woman elected as chair of the presidium and president of the World Zionist Congress, died at the age of 101.

Mario Cuomo married strident liberalism and sensitivity to the Orthodox

A childhood ‘Shabbos goy’ for his Jewish neighbors in Queens, the three-term New York governor rose to become a vanguard of American liberalism in the 1980s.

Los Angeles philanthropist Guilford Glazer dies

Rabbi Leonard Beerman, known for political activism, dies

Remembering Robert Wolfe, guardian of Nazi-era archives

Rabbi Harold Schulweis, pathbreaking thinker and activist, dies at 89

Phil Stern, photographer to the stars, dies

How Gil Marks nourished food lovers

Mike Nichols, director of ‘The Graduate,’ dies

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