Don Diamond leaving priceless legacy passes at 91
Don Diamond, Tucson’s largest local land developer and philanthropist passed away Monday at the age of 91, leaving behind a priceless legacy in Pima County.
Diamond is survived by his eldest daughter Jennifer Diamond, ordained...
Longtime community leader “Len” Perlmutter dies
Leonard Perlmutter, a successful businessman, one-time state economic-development chief, longtime ambassador for National Jewish Health and father of rep. Ed Perlmutter, passed away on July 8.
“He was an innovator, business man, educator, civic leader,...
Jewish groups mourn passing of conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer
American Jewish groups mourned the passing of renowned conservative columnist and commentator Charles Krauthammer, who passed away from small intestine cancer on June 21 at the age of 68.
“The Simon Wiesenthal Center mourns the...
AJC Mourns Shoshana Cardin
AJC mourns the passing of Shoshana Cardin, a trailblazing leader of the American Jewish community. The former AJC Vice President and longtime Board of Governors member was a committed, knowledgeable and proud Jew. She died...
Professor David S. Wyman Z”L, 89, scholar and mensch
Almost every time David S. Wyman delivered a lecture related to his remarkable book, The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945, someone in the audience would ask: Why would you, a Christian,...
Jewish prisoner Miriam Rosenthal gave birth in a Nazi camp
Miriam Rosenthal, who ran a store that was for decades a fixture of Toronto's Jewish community, was also one of the few women who gave birth in a Nazi concentration camp and survived with...
Rabbi Isaiah Zeldin, founder of one of the largest Reform congregations in the country,...
Rabbi Isaiah Zeldin, who founded Los Angeles' Stephen Wise Temple, one of the largest synagogues in the country, has died at age 97.
Zeldin died peacefully Friday night at his home in Palm Desert surrounded...
Generosity and Fortitude. Eugene Applebaum (1936-2017)
Eugene Applebaum, a man known as much for his business acumen and philanthropy as his positive attitude and perpetual smile, died Dec. 15, 2017, at his home in Bloomfield Hills. He was 81.
Born into...
Thousands mourn death of Rabbi Aharon Steinman at 104
Rabbi Aharon Yehuda Leib Steinman, the influential leader of the Lithuanian (non-Hassidic) ultra-Orthodox community, died on Monday at the age of 104.
Steinman was hospitalized several times over the past year with various health issues....
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...