Obituaries

David Weiss Halivni, pioneering and sometimes controversial Talmudist, dies at 94

Halivni was a Holocaust survivor who regarded Jewish tradition as a living thing, not a closed canon.

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Jozef Walaszczyk, who saved more than 50 Jews during the Holocaust, tells his story at a restaurant in Warsaw, Poland on Jan. 28, 2020. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Jozef Walaszczyk, Poland’s oldest rescuer of Jews, dies at 102

His story of rescuing up to 50 people is relatively unknown in Poland.

Andrée Geulen, Belgian woman who rescued hundreds of Jewish children, dies at 100

“I loved you then so much,” Andree Geulen told the children she rescued, decades later. “I still love you as much today.”

Novelist A.B. Yehoshua, dissector and lover of Israel and the Jews, dies at 85

Fred Manasse

Fred Manasse, physicist, sculptor and voice for fellow Holocaust survivors, dies at 86

Isaac Berger on the Olympic podium

Jewish Olympic gold medalist weightlifter Isaac ‘Ike’ Berger dead at 85

Phil Ritzenberg, former editor and publisher of the New York Jewish Week, dies at 90

Remembering the Orthodox rabbi who dared to ordain me, an Orthodox woman

Pinchas Stolper, Orthodox Union leader who retired after rabbi abuse scandal, dies at 90

Remembering Rabbi Steven Sager, a ‘leader, mentor, poet’ in North Carolina and beyond

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