Obituaries

Jenessa Schwartz, Bay Area day school teacher and cancer ‘thriver,’ dies at 41

“I get to choose how things end, and that sounds like winning to me,” she wrote in a blog about her cancer.

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Ady Barkan attends the Los Angeles Supports a Dream Act Now! protest at the office of California Senator Dianne Feinstein on January 3, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Gabriel Olsen/Getty Images)

Ady Barkan, healthcare activist who fought Lou Gehrig’s disease, dies at 39

The Israeli-American lawyer threw his body, quite purposely, into the fight for single-payer health coverage.

Gershon Hundert, renowned scholar of Polish Jewry, dies at 77

The McGill University professor was the editor in chief of the YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe.

A Harry Potter fan’s murder reverberates from Israel to Boston

My Israel Scouts leader died defending our country. I won’t let him be a statistic.

Israeli-American reservist killed by Hezbollah rocket just days after being called back to Israel

Samantha Woll

Samantha Woll, Detroit synagogue president, found stabbed to death outside her home

Actress and teacher Joanna Merlin, original Tzeitel in Broadway’s ‘Fiddler,’ dies at 92

Louise Gluck

Jewish poet Louise Glück, who won Nobel literature prize, dies at 80

Faces of Israel’s fallen: Soldiers, peace activists, families and too many more

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