Obituaries

Ella Adler.

Jewish Life Stories: Florida mourns a Jewish teen killed in a boating accident

Ella Adler was “cherished and adored by more people than anyone her age would normally be.”

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Ivan Boesky, financier whose downfall led to a Jewish communal reckoning, dies at 87

The Wall Street mogul inspired the character of Gordon Gekko and came to epitomize the excesses of the go-go 1980s.

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Yael Dayan, Israeli writer, politician, peace activist and general’s daughter, dies at 85

The daughter of Moshe Dayan served three terms in the Knesset and was one of the leaders of Peace Now.

Daniel Kramer.

Jewish Life Stories: Bob Dylan’s house photographer, and the TV reporter who got under Mel Gibson’s skin

Ilon Specht.

Jewish Life Stories: A voice for women in an age of ‘Mad Men,’ and a legend in the world of crossword puzzles

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Jewish novelist Paul Auster, bard of Brooklyn, dies at 77

Jerome Rothenberg, Bronx-born poet whose ‘ethnopoetics’ inspired scholars and rock stars, dies at 92

Jewish Life Stories: A pioneering woman comic book artist, a British children’s book author who raised three Israeli sons

Rabbi Albert Thaler, founding director of Ramah Nyack day camp, dies at 91

The Upper West Side mourns Tom Weiss, a congressman’s son and ‘master of chesed’

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