Obituaries

The Eulogizer celebrates life

The Eulogizer apologizes for being irregular and minimalist in filing items in recent weeks. We have been preparing for and then celebrating our son’s bar mitzvah, and the joys of celebrating life have made filing items for this blog a challenge. The celebrations and post-event activities are nearly done, and the Eulogizer expects to rev […]

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Philanthropist Newton Becker dies

Newton Becker, a philanthropist who mentored and funded dozens of pro-Israel organizations, has died.

Jerzy Kluger, lifelong friend of Pope John Paul, dies at 90

Jerzy Kluger, a childhood friend of Karol Wojtyla, the Polish priest who improved Vatican relations with Jews when he became Pope John Paul II, died in Rome on Dec. 31, 2011 at 90. “The young Karol Wojtyla learned a lot about Judaism from Kluger,” said author Gianfranco Svidercoschi, an aide to the late pope and […]

Jerzy Kluger, childhood friend of Pope John Paul II, dies

Designer Eva Zeisel, who survived Stalin to create beauty, dies at 105

Israel’s ‘War Singer’ Yaffa Yarkoni dies

Judge who ruled Holocaust a fact dies

Billionaire businessman, bluegrass musician Warren Hellman dies at 77

Media full of commentary, cheeky and loving, about Christopher Hitchens, who died Dec. 15

Rocket scientist Boris Chertok update: He wanted to go into space

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