Israeli academic Zeev Sternhell, fascism expert and critic of the settler movement, dies at 85 He was injured in 2008 by a pipe bomb planted at his Jerusalem home by a right-wing settler. By Marcy Oster June 22, 2020 11:58 am
Prominent AIDS activist Larry Kramer dies at 84 “In a way, like a lot of Jewish men of Larry’s generation, the Holocaust is a defining historical moment, and what happened in the early 1980s with AIDS felt, and was in fact, holocaustal to Larry,” Tony Kushner once said. May 27, 2020 1:11 pm
Jackie Jakubowski, editor of Swedish Jewish magazine, dies at 68 Jakubowski served as editor-in-chief of the cultural magazine Judisk Krönika, or “Jewish Chronicle,” between 1980 and 2015. May 25, 2020 4:32 pm
Jerry Stiller, longtime comic who won fame on ‘Seinfeld,’ dies at 92 By Marcy Oster May 11, 2020 10:20 am
Daniel Azulay, renowned Brazilian artist and educator, dies of coronavirus at 72 By Marcus M. Gilban March 29, 2020 9:17 am
Rabbi Romi Cohn, a Holocaust rescuer who delivered prayer in Congress, dies of coronavirus at 92 By Marcy Oster March 24, 2020 3:06 pm
James Lipton, longtime host of ‘Inside the Actor’s Studio,’ dies at 93 By Marcy Oster March 3, 2020 2:27 pm
Sculptor Beverly Pepper, famed for monumental iron and steel works, dies at 97 By JTA Staff February 6, 2020 3:03 pm
Gladys Bourdain, who helped launch her chef son’s celebrated career, dies at 85 By Marcy Oster January 15, 2020 4:14 pm
Victorian scholar Gertrude Himmelfarb, mother of anti-Trump conservative Bill Kristol, dies at 97 By Cnaan Liphshiz January 3, 2020 1:42 pm