Martin Greenfield, Auschwitz survivor and master tailor to American presidents, dies at 95 “Receiving your first tailoring lesson inside a Nazi concentration camp was hardly the ideal apprenticeship,” Greenfield once recalled. By Andrew Silow-Carroll March 21, 2024 6:01 pm
Jewish Life Stories: The inventor of the poodle skirt, Time Warner’s ‘Jewish, frumpy intellectual’ Juli Lynne Charlot was married to a viscount when she developed designs worn by the future Queen Elizabeth and a bevy of teenagers. March 20, 2024 11:51 am
Jewish Hall-of-Fame jockey Walter Blum, who rode to victory in Belmont Stakes, dies at 89 Blum won more than 4,000 races in a 22-year career, but his most famous ride was the 1971 Belmont Stakes, when he rode 34-1 long shot Pass Catcher to an upset victory. March 15, 2024 10:00 am
Jewish Life Stories: The 19-year-old son of a tech legend, and the French Jew who helped abolish the guillotine By Andrew Silow-Carroll March 13, 2024 11:44 am
Kathy Goldman, NYC’s ‘most important food activist,’ dies at 92 By Andrew Silow-Carroll March 11, 2024 5:35 pm
Singer Steve Lawrence, son of a cantor and half of ‘Steve and Eydie,’ dies at 88 By Andrew Silow-Carroll March 11, 2024 1:05 pm
Jewish Life Stories: The eternally fashionable Iris Apfel, and the son of a klezmer great By Andrew Silow-Carroll March 6, 2024 10:30 am
Ben Stern, Holocaust survivor who stood up to neo-Nazis in Skokie, dies at 102 By Alix Wall March 5, 2024 9:35 am
Ideas Remembering Ellen Bernstein, 70, the ‘birthmother’ of Jewish environmentalism By Shira Dicker February 29, 2024 4:05 pm
Comedian Richard Lewis, dark prince of Jewish neurosis, dies at 76 By Andrew Silow-Carroll February 28, 2024 5:47 pm