Obituaries

Ruth Fein, ‘absolute giant of the Boston Jewish community,’ dies at 96

The first woman chair of the local federation’s board of directors was “a passionate advocate for social justice and Jewish life and Israel.”

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Charlie Biton, co-founder of Israeli Black Panthers and first Israeli to meet Arafat, dies at 76

Biton was a member of parliament for 15 years, serving as a symbol of persistent Mizrahi claims against Israel’s Ashkenazi-dominated ruling class.

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Shelly Weiss, Brooklyn ‘queer icon’ and progressive Jewish activist, dies at 77

The “first out lesbian in Park Slope” founded an agency that booked LGBTQ acts on college campuses.

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Chaya Chana Twersky, who helped her husband build a suburban haven for Skverer Hasidim, dies at 81

Robie Harris.

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Rabbi Jules Harlow.

Rabbi Jules Harlow, editor of the prayer book used in Conservative synagogues for a quarter century, dies at 92

Robert Chazan, 87, NYU scholar of medieval Jewry who helped build field of Jewish studies

Nina Gottlieb.

Nina Gottlieb, Holocaust survivor who told her story in an award-winning documentary, dies at 91

Hannah Deutch.

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