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...
Australian Jewish leader Jeremy Jones dies at age 64
Jeremy Jones, one of the most influential figures in Australia’s Jewish community, passed away on Sept. 6 after losing a battle with cancer.
The 64-year-old was the director of international and community affairs at the Australia/Israel &...
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...
Joe Woolf, 94, helped connect fellow veterans of Israel’s 1948 War of Independence
Joe Woolf, a South African Jewish volunteer in the foreign-fighters unit Machal who conducted research that helped preserve that group’s legacy for 75 years after Israel’s War of Independence, died on Feb. 28 at...
David Mermelstein, Holocaust survivor who fought Nazi-era insurance companies, dies at 92
David Mermelstein, a survivor of Auschwitz who devoted much of his life to helping fellow survivors and educating children about the Holocaust, died July 6 in Miami at the age of 92.
Mermelstein regularly spoke...
Remembering Bob Saget, Millennials’ embarrassing, bawdy, beloved Jewish dad
Children of the ‘90s discovered Bob Saget in phases – he was one of the rare comedy acts that aged with you, while never quite maturing.
The comedian, who was found dead in a Florida...
Actress Anabela Yaakov, Who Played in Shimon Dzigan’s Skits, Has Died
דאָנערשטיק, דעם 21סטן נאָוועמבער, איז די טאַלאַנטירטע אַקטריסע אַנאַבעלאַ יעקבֿ, אַוועק אין דער אייביקייט אין תּל־אָבֿיבֿ. זי איז געווען 78 יאָר אַלט.
אַנאַבעלאַ, וואָס האָט אָפֿט אויפֿגעטראָטן מיט דער ייִדישער טעאַטער־טרופּע „ייִדישפּיל‟, האָט אַ מאָל...