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Joe Lieberman, longtime senator and first Jewish-American VP candidate, dies at 82

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Former Sen. Joe Lieberman died on Wednesday afternoon at the age of 82 after complications from a fall, according to a statement from his family. “Senator Lieberman’s love of God, his family and America endured...
Former Mossad Director Zvi Zamir speaks at a memorial service marking 21 years since the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, held at the Mount Herzl Cemetery in Jerusalem. Nov. 4, 2016. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Former Mossad chief Zvi Zamir dies at 98

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Zvi Zamir, the fourth director of Israel's Mossad national intelligence agency, died in Tel Aviv on Jan. 2. He was 98 years old. Born Zvicka Zarzevsky in 1925 in Lodz, Poland, Zamir immigrated to Israel...
Bhamdoun Synagogue in Lebanon. Credit: Alex9330/Shutterstock.

Isaac Arazi Z’L, 80, head of ‘tiny’ Jewish community in Lebanon

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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...
Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger attends the Israeli Presidential Conference in Jerusalem on May 14, 2008. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Biden’s statement on Kissinger’s passing appears to be his tersest official condolences yet

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On June 19, 2021, U.S. President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, released a 199-word statement on “the Passing of their beloved German shepherd Champ.” The statement Biden issued on Nov. 30—hours after U.S. Secretary of...