Obituaries

Bernie Steinberg, a Harvard Hillel director who promoted pluralism, dies at 78

An admired educator whose last public act was a controversial essay on anti-Israel protests at the Ivy League school

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Jewish Life Stories: Hasidic filmmaker Menachem Daum, pioneering publisher Carol Hupping Fisher

Remembering those who made an outsize impact in the Jewish world — or just left their community a better or more interesting place.

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Boston writer Norm Finkelstein, whose YA books championed Jewish heroes, dies at 82

The Boston educator and author would joke about sharing a name with one of the most vociferous critics of Israel.

Holocaust survivor who became a bat mitzvah at 91 dies in Buenos Aires

Israeli soldier Amichai Oster, son of former JTA writer and editor, is killed in Gaza

Remembering Misha Avramoff, a champion of Jewish education and New York’s poor

Lives Lived: Notable New Yorkers who died in 2023

Herb Kohl, former Jewish senator from Wisconsin and Milwaukee Bucks owner, dies at 88

Leader of Lebanon’s tiny Jewish community dies at 80

Ruth Seymour

Ruth Seymour, public radio pioneer devoted to Jewish culture, dies at 88

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