‘Pioneer’ anesthesiologist Rebecca Twersky dies at 67
Dr. Rebecca Twersky, former chief of anesthesia at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s Josie Robertson Surgery Center, died in mid-May at 67.
“In addition to her many professional accomplishments, Dr. Twersky was well known...
‘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...
Scholars seek to promote the universal legacy of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
More than two-dozen Jewish scholars from around the world have gathered in Jerusalem to honor the legacy of the late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, as the next generation of educators works to merge Judaism...
James Crown, major donor to Jewish causes, dies in car crash at age 70
A Jewish leader in philanthropy, business and politics died while participating in a race at a motorsports park in Aspen, Colo.
James “Jim” Crown, 70, had led his family’s investment firm as CEO and inherited $10.32 billion...
‘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...
‘He was an ardent, farbrente Zionist,’ Mort Klein says of Ed Ames
Some 15 or 20 years ago, Mort Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America, saw a man who looked a lot like entertainer Ed Ames at an American Israel Public Affairs Committee...
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...
Kyiv honors Jewish Federations of North America for war-relief support
The Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) is among groups and countries recognized in Kyiv and honored by the planting of seven Japanese cherry trees in the Ukrainian capital.
The countries include the United States,...
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...
Montenegro Jewish community to inaugurate Torah scroll on Lag B’Omer
During Lag B’Omer last year in Montenegro, which is roughly east of Rome across the Adriatic Sea, the Jewish community was eager to gather around a bonfire and put the pandemic behind it. This...