Obituaries

Mary Ann Stein, philanthropist who supported social justice in US and Israel, dies at 80

The founding president of The Moriah Fund was inspired by her time in the South during the height of the civil rights movement.

Leni Reiss, longtime editor of Arizona Jewish weekly, dies at 84

An award-winning journalist, she also helped direct education and seminar programs that originated at the New York Jewish Week.

Violet Spevack, weekly chronicler of Cleveland Jewry for 50 years, dies at 107

Her society column for the Cleveland Jewish News, launched on March 5, 1965, made her one of the of the longest continuously published columnists in the country.

Jewish sailor Bill Pinkney, first Black person to circle the globe solo, dies at 87

Claire Golomb, Holocaust survivor and scholar of children’s art and dreams, dies at 95

Andrea Pancur, singer who bridged German and Yiddish song traditions, dies at 54

Cantor Philip Sherman, the ‘busiest mohel in New York,’ dies at 67

Nechama Tec, survivor whose book about the Bielski partisans inspired the Daniel Craig film ‘Defiance,’ dies at 92

Florence Berger, 83, Cornell professor and practitioner of the art of Jewish matchmaking

Harvey ‘Bud’ Meyerhoff, chair of US Holocaust Memorial Museum at its founding, dies at 96

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