Obituaries

Al Jaffee, iconic Mad Magazine cartoonist who also inked Chabad comic, dies at 102

The New Yorker’s outlook and work were influenced by his childhood spent partly in a shtetl in Lithuania.

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Mimi Sheraton, pioneering food critic and scholar of the bialy, dies at 97

The Brooklyn-born maven’s books include “Is Salami and Eggs Better Than Sex?” and “The New York Times Jewish Cookbook.”

Ben Ferencz, Nuremberg prosecutor who devoted his life to preventing genocide, dies at 103

The son of Jewish immigrants and City College of New York grad also played a key role in securing German reparations for the Holocaust.

Seymour Stein with David Byrne and Madonna

Seymour Stein, Jewish music mogul who discovered Madonna and The Ramones, dies at 80

Margot Stern Strom, who founded pioneering Holocaust education program Facing History, dies at 81

Nathan Chavin, Jewish ad exec who wrote a raunchy country western hit, dies at 78

Abraham Zarem, one of the last surviving Manhattan Project scientists, dies at 106

Raphael Mechoulam, Israel’s ‘father of cannabis research,’ dies at 92

How the late actor Topol turned Tevye into a Zionist

Chaim Topol, Israeli actor who played Tevye in 1971 ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ film, dies at 87

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