Obituaries

Martin Greenfield.

Martin Greenfield, Auschwitz survivor and master tailor to American presidents, dies at 95

“Receiving your first tailoring lesson inside a Nazi concentration camp was hardly the ideal apprenticeship,” Greenfield once recalled.

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Juli Lynne Charlot.

Jewish Life Stories: The inventor of the poodle skirt, Time Warner’s ‘Jewish, frumpy intellectual’

Juli Lynne Charlot was married to a viscount when she developed designs worn by the future Queen Elizabeth and a bevy of teenagers.

Horse racing

Jewish Hall-of-Fame jockey Walter Blum, who rode to victory in Belmont Stakes, dies at 89

Blum won more than 4,000 races in a 22-year career, but his most famous ride was the 1971 Belmont Stakes, when he rode 34-1 long shot Pass Catcher to an upset victory.

Marco Troper.

Jewish Life Stories: The 19-year-old son of a tech legend, and the French Jew who helped abolish the guillotine

jewish food activist

Kathy Goldman, NYC’s ‘most important food activist,’ dies at 92

Singer Steve Lawrence, son of a cantor and half of ‘Steve and Eydie,’ dies at 88

Iris Apfel.

Jewish Life Stories: The eternally fashionable Iris Apfel, and the son of a klezmer great

anti-Nazi march

Ben Stern, Holocaust survivor who stood up to neo-Nazis in Skokie, dies at 102

Jewish feminist environmentalist

Remembering Ellen Bernstein, 70, the ‘birthmother’ of Jewish environmentalism

Comedian Richard Lewis, dark prince of Jewish neurosis, dies at 76

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