First Person Hillel Silverman, longtime rabbi whose congregant killed JFK’s assassin, is dead at 99 A journalist recalls the career and brush with notoriety of Silverman, the founding rabbi of a Dallas congregation. By Steve North April 12, 2023 11:00 am
Al Jaffee, iconic Mad Magazine cartoonist who also inked Chabad comic, dies at 102 The New Yorker’s outlook and work were influenced by his childhood spent partly in a shtetl in Lithuania. April 11, 2023 9:20 am
Mimi Sheraton, pioneering food critic and scholar of the bialy, dies at 97 The Brooklyn-born maven’s books include “Is Salami and Eggs Better Than Sex?” and “The New York Times Jewish Cookbook.” April 9, 2023 8:00 pm
Ben Ferencz, Nuremberg prosecutor who devoted his life to preventing genocide, dies at 103 By Andrew Silow-Carroll April 9, 2023 9:24 am
Seymour Stein, Jewish music mogul who discovered Madonna and The Ramones, dies at 80 By Gabe Friedman April 3, 2023 12:50 pm
Margot Stern Strom, who founded pioneering Holocaust education program Facing History, dies at 81 By Andrew Silow-Carroll March 29, 2023 4:01 pm
Nathan Chavin, Jewish ad exec who wrote a raunchy country western hit, dies at 78 By Jon Kalish March 27, 2023 4:44 pm
Abraham Zarem, one of the last surviving Manhattan Project scientists, dies at 106 By Andrew Silow-Carroll March 16, 2023 5:19 pm
Raphael Mechoulam, Israel’s ‘father of cannabis research,’ dies at 92 By Andrew Silow-Carroll March 10, 2023 3:22 pm
Ideas How the late actor Topol turned Tevye into a Zionist By Andrew Silow-Carroll March 9, 2023 3:11 pm