Obituaries

Elaine Grossinger Etess, third-generation owner of legendary Catskills resort, dies at 98

“My plan was to be a typical doctor’s wife and join the garden club while staying home with our children,” Etess once recalled. “The problem was that I was bored.”

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Remembrance Ideas

Jerry Lippman was a Jewish newspaperman who refused to play by the rules

The longtime publisher of the Long Island Jewish World, who died in September, proved that community papers could do real journalism.

A photo of baby Taft on the cover of a magazine.

A Jewish baby became the face of Nazi Aryan propaganda. Her life story outlasted the lie.

“I feel a sense of revenge,” said Hessy Levinsons Taft, who died Jan. 1 at 91.

Josef Veselsky, Holocaust survivor and table tennis master who was Ireland’s oldest man, dies at 107

The Duchess Of Cornwall Marks The 75th Anniversary Of The Diary of Anne Frank

Eva Schloss, Holocaust survivor who promoted the story of her friend and posthumous stepsister Anne Frank, dies at 96

Julius Berman, Orthodox rabbi whose influence spanned secular and observant Jewish institutions, dies at 90

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Norman Podhoretz, Commentary editor and archetypal Jewish neoconservative, dies at 95

Rob Reiner, iconic Jewish director and actor, found dead with wife Michele in their home

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