The fuzzy, neurotic, unmistakably Jewish legacy of cartoonist Ed Koren The late New Yorker contributor was once called the “poet laureate of the Upper West Side.” By Andrew Silow-Carroll April 23, 2023 6:45 am
Hedda Kleinfeld Schachter, Holocaust survivor and bridal empire builder, dies at 99 A granddaughter says her grandmother never saw an episode of the show that brought her namesake store into millions of homes. April 14, 2023 4:08 pm
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. April 12, 2023 11:00 am
Al Jaffee, iconic Mad Magazine cartoonist who also inked Chabad comic, dies at 102 By Philissa Cramer April 11, 2023 9:20 am
Mimi Sheraton, pioneering food critic and scholar of the bialy, dies at 97 By Andrew Silow-Carroll 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