Richard Stone, 79, attorney, educator and consensus-builder of American Jewry
At a time when the State of Israel needed someone to speak up for it, Richard Stone’s legal and courtroom skills were indispensable for constructing arguments to answer its critics.
“No one could articulate a...
Oldest concentration-camp survivor dies at age 108
The oldest known survivor of a Nazi concentration camp, Boris Pahor, died on Monday in the Italian city of Trieste at the age of 108, reported Deutsche Welle.
Pahor was born on Aug. 26, 1913, in...
Holocaust survivor, 91, perishes in store basement in Mariupol
As she lay dying in a Mariupol basement, freezing and pleading for water, Holocaust survivor Vanda Semyonovna Obiedkova wanted to know only one thing: “Why is this happening?”
Ill and emaciated during the last two...
Legendary Jewish comedian Gilbert Gottfried remembered for his edgy humor
The first joke Gilbert Gottfried remembers making is when he was on his couch at about 4 years old. “When does the roller coaster start?” he recounts himself saying in his memoir Rubber Balls and...
Mimi Reinhard, who typed out Schindler’s list, dies at 107
Mimi Reinhard, a secretary in Oskar Schindler’s office who typed up the list of Jewish men, women and children to be saved from death by Nazi Germany, died in Israel on Friday at the...
Holocaust survivor, subject of Oscar and Emmy-winning film, dies at 97
Holocaust survivor and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Gerda Weissmann Klein died on Sunday at age 97.
Born in 1924 in Poland, she survived three Nazi concentration camps, where she almost died from exhaustion, overwork...
Harold “Smoky” Simon, one of the IAF’s founders, dies at 101
Three days after he passed away at the age of 101, close to his 102nd birthday, tributes continue to pour in for Harold “Smoky” Simon on Thursday, one of the legendary founders of the Israeli...
Ivan Reitman, ‘Ghostbusters’ director and son of Holocaust survivors, dies at age 75
Jewish producer and director Ivan Reitman died in his sleep on Saturday night at his home in Montecito, Calif., at the age of 75, his family told The Associated Press.
“Our family is grieving the unexpected...
Morris Casuto, 79, Defender of the Jewish People
Morris Casuto, the Anti-Defamation League regional director who defended San Diego County’s Jewish community against antisemites while forging good relations with other ethnic and religious groups within the county, died from leukemia Friday night,...
In memory of Esther Pollard
This is being written in memory of Esther Pollard, who passed away on Jan. 31.
Esther was the wife of Jonathan Pollard, the former U.S. intelligence analyst who in 1987 pleaded guilty to spying for...