Obituaries

Carmen Weinstein, head of Egypt’s Jewish community, dies

Carmen Weinstein, the head of Egypt’s Jewish community, has died.

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Yaakov Yosef, influential rabbi and son of Shas spiritual leader, dies

Tens of thousands joined the funeral procession of Rabbi Yaakov Yosef, the eldest son of the Shas party’s spiritual leader, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef.

N.Y. Times reporter who uncovered Klansman’s Jewish background dies

John McCandlish Phillips Jr., a longtime New York Times reporter who wrote about a Jewish man who became a senior Ku Klux Klan official, has died.

Former British PM Margaret Thatcher, ‘staunch friend of Israel,’ dies

Former Maariv editor Amnon Dankner dies at 67

Princeton’s Rabbi James Diamond dies in traffic accident

Helen Kutsher, a Borscht Belt matriarch, dies at 89

Zionist leader Jacques Torczyner dies

Newborn son of N.Y. car crash victims dies

Stephane Hessel, Jewish anti-capitalist activist, dies

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