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....
In JewishWebsite.com we are deeply consterned by the irreparable loss of our friend Haïm...
An outstanding defender of Judeo-Espanyol and Sephardic culture, Haim graduated from the Sorbonne University and served as Director emeritus of the "Rincón Sefaradí" in DiarioJudio.com among many other achievements.
An Auschwitz survivor, Haïm Vidal Sephiha...
Sidney Brenner, the Nobel laureate who read the code of life has passed away
After working alongside Francis Crick at the University of Cambridge to reveal the “central dogma” of molecular biology—that our DNA code guides the building of proteins that sustain life in cells—Sydney Brenner sought to...
‘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...
Isaac Arazi Z’L, 80, head of ‘tiny’ Jewish community in Lebanon
The octogenarian former president of the about 30-strong Jewish community in Lebanon, who had sought to conserve the abandoned Magen Avraham synagogue in central Beirut, died on Dec. 27 and was buried the same...
‘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...
Jewish actor Yaphet Kotto, star of ‘Alien,’ Bond villain, dies at age 81
Actor Yaphet Kotto, who starred in the film “Alien” and played the first black James Bond villain, died on March 14 at the age of 81, his wife announced on Facebook.
Kotto’s wife of 24...
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...
Former two-time US national security advisor Brent Scowcroft dies at 95
Former two-time U.S. National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft died of natural causes on Aug. 6, his 95th birthday, according to a statement from the Scowcroft Group.
“Brent Scowcroft was an American patriot and public servant...