Chess world stunned by death of Jewish prodigy Daniel Naroditsky
Daniel Naroditsky, a grandmaster who rose from child prodigy status to become among America’s most significant figures in competitive chess, died Monday at 29, the Associated Press reported.
The Charlotte Chess Center in North Carolina, where Naroditsky...
Aron Bielski: The Last of the Holocaust Hero Brothers
Aron Bielski passed away just before Rosh Hashanah. With his death, the last of the heroic Bielski brothers — who led the partisans, rescued Jews, and fought the Nazis — is gone. He was...
Rabbi Berel Wein: Recalling his Zionist opposition to the two-state nightmare
“The more I read and study Jewish history, the clearer it becomes that there is an Author and Planner, Who guides Israel to its destiny.”
— Rabbi Berel Wein (October 1990)
Rabbi Berel Wein, a Chicago-born pulpit...
Former Bank of Israel governor Stanley Fischer dies at 81
Renowned economist and former Bank of Israel governor Stanley Fischer has died at age 81, according to Hebrew media reports. Fischer's career spanned the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the International Monetary Fund and the...
Jewish filmmaker Marcel Ophuls dies at 97
Marcel Ophuls, an award-winning Jewish documentary maker, died peacefully at his home in southwest France on May 24 at the age of 97, his grandson Andreas-Benjamin Seyfert confirmed to The Associated Press on Monday.
A...
David Horowitz, 86, ‘red diaper baby’ turned conservative writer
David Horowitz, the Jewish conservative writer and founder of FrontPage magazine, in addition to an eponymous freedom center, died on April 29. He was 86 years old.
Known for his 1998 memoir Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey, about his...
‘Dry Bones’ cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen dies at 87
Israeli cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen, whose iconic daily cartoons were published by JNS for the last several years, died at Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba on Monday after a lengthy illness, aged 87.
After making...
Netanyahu eulogizes Stef Wertheimer as ‘a man of industry, vision and the Land of...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu eulogized billionaire and former Knesset lawmaker Stef Wertheimer, who died at age 98 on Wednesday, as "a man of industry, vision and the Land of Israel."
"My wife Sara and...
OU marks 125 years of building a religiously vibrant community
From its beginnings as a kosher certification agency to its ongoing enrichment of Jewish life, advancement of community-driven solutions, and building a growing, religiously vibrant, and caring community, the OU’s remarkable achievements were showcased...
Slain Israeli captive Oded Lifshitz buried in Kibbutz Nir Oz
The funeral of Israeli hostage Oded Lifshitz got underway in his hometown of Kibbutz Nir Oz on Tuesday afternoon, five days after his remains were returned from the Gaza Strip for burial by the...