Actress Arleen Sorkin of daytime TV fame dies at 67
After fighting multiple sclerosis for a decade, the disease took the life of 67-year-old Jewish film and television actress Arleen Sorkin on Aug. 24.
Playing Calliope Jones Bradford in the daytime soap opera “Days of Our Lives,” Sorkin served...
Celebrated character actor Mark Margolis dies at 83
Most recently bringing to life the unforgettable crime boss Hector Salamanga in 22 episodes of “Better Call Saul” and eight episodes of its predecessor “Breaking Bad,” Jewish actor Mark Margolis has died at the age of...
‘Pee-wee’s Playhouse’ star Paul Reubens dies at age 70
“Please accept my apology for not going public with what I’ve been facing for the last six years,” a post on Paul Reubens’s Instagram account noted on Monday. “I have always felt a huge amount of...
‘Pioneer’ anesthesiologist Rebecca Twersky dies at 67
Dr. Rebecca Twersky, former chief of anesthesia at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s Josie Robertson Surgery Center, died in mid-May at 67.
“In addition to her many professional accomplishments, Dr. Twersky was well known...
‘A powerful advocate for the Land of Israel’: Rabbi Gold dead at 88
Rabbi Shalom Gold, the Brooklyn-born founder of Congregation Zichron Yosef in Jerusalem's Har Nof neighborhood, was buried at the capital's Har Hamenuchot cemetery on Sunday afternoon.
Rabbi Gold was hospitalized on Friday after contracting an...
James Crown, major donor to Jewish causes, dies in car crash at age 70
A Jewish leader in philanthropy, business and politics died while participating in a race at a motorsports park in Aspen, Colo.
James “Jim” Crown, 70, had led his family’s investment firm as CEO and inherited $10.32 billion...
‘Fiddler on the Roof’ lyricist Sheldon Harnick Z”L dies at 99
The Songwriters Hall of Fame was saddened to learn of the passing of 1972 inductee and 1990 Johnny Mercer Awardee, Sheldon Harnick.
Born and raised in Chicago, Sheldon Harnick began studying the violin while in grammar school. After serving...
‘He was an ardent, farbrente Zionist,’ Mort Klein says of Ed Ames
Some 15 or 20 years ago, Mort Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America, saw a man who looked a lot like entertainer Ed Ames at an American Israel Public Affairs Committee...
Former Israeli Supreme Court Justice Jacob Turkel dies
Former Israeli Supreme Court Justice Jacob Turkel died on Monday at the age of 88.
Born in 1935 in Tel Aviv to Austrian immigrants. He graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s law school in...
Defense Minister Gallant’s mother, a Holocaust survivor, dies at 88
Fruma Gallant, the mother of Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, died on May 11 at the age of 88.
Fruma, née Segal, was born in Poland and survived World War II and the Holocaust. She...