With great sorrow: Sheldon Adelson, 1933-2021
It is with unbearable pain that I announce the death of my husband, Sheldon, of complications from a long illness.
Sheldon was the love of my life. He was my partner in romance, philanthropy, political...
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...
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,...
Rabbi who founded Chabad in the Netherlands dies at age 85
Rabbi Moshe Yitzchak (Ies) Vorst, founder of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in the Netherlands, died on Sept. 14 at the age of 85.
Vorst was born in 1938, the son of the chief rabbi of Rotterdam....
Remembering Rabbi Neil Gillman, A JTS Giant
He stood at the intersection of the ancient and the modern, a kind of theological crossing guard gently guiding several generations of Jews through the crosswalk, a foot on both sides of the divide.
In...
Los Angeles Theater Critic, San Diego Jewish World Contributor Cynthia Citron Dies at 89
Cynthia Wynn Taylor Citron, born September 16, 1934, in Boston, died November 11, 2023, in New York, of pneumonia and old age.
For nearly 20 years she was a well known theater critic in Los...
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...
Soviet Jewish activist and refusenik Ida Nudel dies in Israel at age 90
Ida Nudel, a leading activist and Zionist who sought permission for 16 years to leave the former Soviet Union and move to Israel, died on Tuesday at the age of 90.
Nudel was born in the former...
Fellow comedians recall Bob Saget, quintessentially Jewish funnyman, who died at age 65
Robert (“Bob”) Saget was best known as the understanding and loving father Danny Tanner in the ABC hit sitcom “Full House.” As a recently widowed father of DJ, Stephanie and Michelle (Candice Cameron Bure,...
Last surviving Nuremberg trial prosecutor dies at 103
Benjamin (“Ben”) Ferencz, the last surviving prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials, passed away on April 7 at the age of 103.
According to The New York Times, he died at an assisted-living facility in Boynton Beach,...