Obituaries

Judy Heumann, Jewish disability advocate who spurred a movement, dies at 75

Heumann changed New York City policies, influenced federal laws and was featured in 2020’s “Crip Camp,” about her formative camp experience.

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Elan Ganeles. (Consulate General of Israel in New York/Twitter)

Elan Ganeles, American killed in West Bank attack, remembered for his wit and friendship

Ganeles, who was raised in West Hartford, Connecticut, and graduated from Columbia University, was 26.

Richard Belzer Jewish comedian

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Richard Belzer was a Jewish comedian. Why didn’t his obituaries say so?

Media that ignore celebrities’ religious identity lose an opportunity to explore their lives in full, writes the exhibition curator at YIVO.

Richard Belzer, eminently recognizable Jewish comedian and character actor, dies at 78

Moses Elisaf

Moses Elisaf, first Jewish mayor of a city in Greece, dies at 68

Ted Lerner, real estate developer who brought baseball back to Washington, dies at 97

Burt Bacharach, sophisticated Jewish hitmaker of the ’60s and ’70s, dies at 94

Bob Born, Jewish maker of Peeps marshmallow candies, dies at 98

Grigory Kanovich, award-winning author who chronicled Lithuanian Jewry, dies at 93

Dick Savitt

Legendary Jewish tennis champion Dick Savitt dies at 95

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