Wednesday, October 7th 2026 |
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By JACKIE HAJDENBERG
(New York Jewish Week) — Rabbi Eliyahu Fink, a prominent and empathetic voice on contemporary issues facing Jews in the Orthodox world, died early Friday morning in a car accident on the Garden State Parkway in New...
By GRACE GILSON
(JTA) — When Jeffrey Klein traveled to the Soviet Union to report a long feature on Jewish refuseniks, his first stop was a sparsely attended synagogue in Moscow. Before he left, he wanted to make a donation.
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By GRACE GILSON
(JTA) — Max Frankel, the former executive editor of The New York Times who fled the Nazis as a child, died at 94.
Frankel died Sunday at his Manhattan home, according to an obituary in the Times.
...HERTHA ROSENBLUM BART, the matriarch of the Bart family, passed away peacefully in New Orleans at the age of 100 years.
Born in St. Gallen Switzerland in 1924, she was a young model when she met her husband Morris Bart...
ANNE PAKE LOWENBURG, a community volunteer and supporter of civic causes passed away on Thursday, Feb. 13. She was 95.
A native of Mobile, AL., she was predeceased by her daughter Margery Lowenburg and is survived by her children Harry,...
LARRY BRUCE RABIN, a commercial realtor for more than three decades, passed away with family surrounding him on Mon. Feb. 3, He was 75.
A New Orleans native, he was an excellent athlete, excelling in golf and basketball during his...
LISA ANN KAUFMAN, a former community volunteer and pre-school teacher, died after a brief illness on January 27, 2025, in Weston, Florida, with family members at her side. She was 60.
Judaism was a cornerstone of her identity, Kaufman was...
FAY WALDOFF BOTNICK, a former university administrator, passed away peacefully on January 22, 2025, in Columbus, Ohio, at the age of 98.
A native of Hattiesburg, MS, she graduated high school and attended Louisiana State University....
BRUCE P. YAILLEN, the former executive director of Shir Chadash Conservative Congregation, died on Sunday, January 12, 2025 and was laid to rest in Pittsburgh.
Yaillen attended Taylor Allderdice, a school in the notably Jewish neighborhood of Squirrel Hill in...
By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL
(JTA) — Peter Yarrow, one-third of the hit-making 1960s folk group Peter, Paul and Mary, and a Jewish activist who promoted Israeli-Palestinian coexistence and other progressive causes, died Tuesday at age 86.
The longtime resident of Manhattan’s...
