Obituaries

Bonds of Life: We’re memorializing those we lose to the coronavirus

This project is a partnership among JTA, the Forward and local Jewish newspapers around the world.

By JTA Staff March 26, 2020 5:05 pm

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Mayer Rispler, Satmar leader who called for following health rules, dies of COVID-19 at 70

Rispler had been placed on a ventilator in late September, as infections rose in New York City’s Orthodox communities.

October 16, 2020 3:49 pm

Bernard Cohen, who brought Loving v. Virginia to the Supreme Court, dies at 86

Cohen won a landmark victory when the court unanimously ruled in 1967 that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Constitution.

October 14, 2020 9:45 am

Richard Schifter, Holocaust survivor who later served as a US diplomat, dies at 97

By Marcy Oster October 5, 2020 10:04 am

Helen Reddy, who sang the feminist anthem ‘I Am Woman,’ dies at 78

By Marcy Oster September 30, 2020 2:21 pm

Marilee Shapiro Asher, artist who survived global pandemics a century apart, dies at 107

By Ben Harris September 30, 2020 2:07 pm

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, first Jewish woman to serve on Supreme Court, dies at 87

By Sarah Wildman September 18, 2020 8:04 pm

Massachusetts court chief Ralph Gants remembered as a giant of justice

By Penny Schwartz September 18, 2020 11:57 am

Jorge Kirszenbaum, human rights activist and former head of of Argentina’s Jewish community, dies at 72

By JTA Staff September 10, 2020 2:51 pm

Ronald Harwood, Oscar-winning screenwriter of ‘The Pianist,’ dies at 85

By Marcy Oster September 10, 2020 11:35 am

Gabor Hirsch visits the former Auschwitz I concentration camp in Poland on January 26, 2015 (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Gabor Hirsch, prominent Swiss activist for Holocaust education, dies at 90

By Cnaan Liphshiz August 30, 2020 7:00 am

Arnold Spielberg, who helped son Steven make his first movie, dies at 103

By Marcy Oster August 26, 2020 3:07 pm

Angela Buxton, Jewish tennis star who won Wimbledon doubles title, dies at 85

By Marcy Oster August 18, 2020 12:06 pm

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