Obituaries

Leader of Lebanon’s tiny Jewish community dies at 80

Isaac Arazi oversaw the restoration of Beirut’s Magen Avraham synagogue.

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Ruth Seymour

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

The Bronx-born broadcasting executive grew L.A.’s KCRW into a public radio powerhouse.

20 Jewish celebrities who died in 2023

From movie stars to politicians to Nobel Prize winners.

The klezmer world will remember the ‘youngest of the old guys’

A German Jewish man who escaped the Holocaust returns to German Parliament as a guest speaker

Guy Stern, WWII ‘Ritchie Boy’ who became renowned Holocaust scholar, dies at 101

Neil Drossman, ad writer famous for his wit and wordplay, dies at 83

Rabbi Martin Rozenberg, scholar who helped found Reform’s Camp Harlam, is dead at 95

David Ellenson was my rabbi. I can’t believe we won’t learn from him anymore.

Rabbi David Ellenson dies; former president of Reform seminary and widely admired mentor was 76

Norman Lear, Jewish creator of pioneering TV comedies including ‘All in the Family,’ dies at 101

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