Obituaries

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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.

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

Eugenia Unger was a founding member of the Holocaust Museum of Buenos Aires.

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

The 24-year-old reservist rushed back to Israel from the United States after Oct. 7.

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

20 Jewish celebrities who died in 2023

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

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