Jewish Life Stories: A lone soldier, the voice of the Shangri-Las, two giants of American health care Mary Weiss was barely a teenager when she formed the Shangri-Las with her sister Betty and two other Jewish teens from the Cambria Heights section of Queens, New York. By Andrew Silow-Carroll January 25, 2024 2:07 pm
Norman Jewison, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ director and lifelong friend of the Jews, dies at 97 Though not Jewish himself, the filmmaker crafted one of the most beloved Jewish movies ever. January 22, 2024 4:58 pm
Rabbi Zevulun Charlop, dean who led Yeshiva U seminary through period of growth, dies at 94 Charlop once said that his ideal Y.U. would be “a yeshiva like Volozhin,” a legendary seminary in what is now Belarus, and a university like Columbia. January 18, 2024 3:13 pm
Jewish Life Stories: John Lennon’s lawyer, Michael Oren’s mom By Andrew Silow-Carroll January 17, 2024 10:57 am
Bernie Steinberg, a Harvard Hillel director who promoted pluralism, dies at 78 By Andrew Silow-Carroll January 16, 2024 3:26 pm
Jewish Life Stories: Hasidic filmmaker Menachem Daum, pioneering publisher Carol Hupping Fisher By Andrew Silow-Carroll January 10, 2024 11:37 am
Boston writer Norm Finkelstein, whose YA books championed Jewish heroes, dies at 82 By Penny Schwartz January 9, 2024 12:49 pm
Holocaust survivor who became a bat mitzvah at 91 dies in Buenos Aires By Juan Melamed January 4, 2024 4:59 pm
Israeli soldier Amichai Oster, son of former JTA writer and editor, is killed in Gaza By Andrew Silow-Carroll January 2, 2024 1:42 pm
Remembering Misha Avramoff, a champion of Jewish education and New York’s poor By Lizzie Leiman Kraiem January 1, 2024 11:00 am