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

Kirszenbaum, an attorney, was influential in Argentina’s transition from military dictatorship to democracy.

September 10, 2020 2:51 pm

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

Harwood was nominated for two other Oscars and wrote a novel and several plays.

September 10, 2020 11:35 am

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

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

Ruth Gavison, influential Israeli legal scholar and civil rights activist, dies at 75

By Marcy Oster August 16, 2020 4:03 pm

Luiz Filipe Barbosa, leading Brazilian Israeli folk dance choreographer, dies at 52

By Marcus M. Gilban August 12, 2020 12:48 pm

Rabbi Adin Even-Israel (Steinsaltz) inspects at his Jerusalem home an English-language translation of the Talmud based on his annotations on June 4, 2018. (Wikimedia Commons/SoInkleined)

Adin Steinsaltz, acclaimed scholar who made the Talmud more accessible, dies at 83

By Ben Harris August 7, 2020 7:44 am

William Wolff, rabbi who served Germany’s Jews after fall of the Berlin Wall, dies at 93

By Toby Axelrod July 13, 2020 9:43 am

James Leek, 75, contributed to progressive Jewish causes in London

By Liam Hoare June 30, 2020 3:58 pm

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