Obituaries

Reuven Bulka, Ottawa rabbi behind a Canadian week dedicated to kindness, dies at 77

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called Bulka “Canada’s rabbi,” saying he “inspired Jewish Canadians and people across the country.”

By Ron Kampeas June 29, 2021 4:28 pm

Janet Malcolm, famed New Yorker writer whose family fled the Nazis, dies at 86

“Many years later, I came to acknowledge and treasure my Jewishness. But during childhood and adolescence I hated and resented and hid it,” she wrote in a 2018 essay.

June 17, 2021 5:12 pm

Herb Sturz, driver of criminal justice reform in New York City and beyond, dies at 90

Sturz was an early advocate of bail reform whose efforts have been influential for decades.

June 11, 2021 12:05 pm

Jaime Lerner, renowned Brazilian-Jewish urban planner and politician, dies at 83

By Marcus M. Gilban May 27, 2021 4:44 pm

Roman Kent, Holocaust survivor who negotiated billions in restitution, dies at 92

By Andrew Silow-Carroll May 21, 2021 4:56 pm

Charles Grodin, Jewish comic actor known for ‘The Heartbreak Kid’ and ‘Beethoven,’ dies at 86

By Gabe Friedman May 19, 2021 12:33 pm

Former congressman Lester Wolff, known for surviving assassination threats and supporting Israel, dies at 102

By Asaf Shalev May 12, 2021 5:46 pm

Faye Schulman, Holocaust survivor whose photographs documented the partisan resistance, dies at 101

By Shira Hanau May 10, 2021 12:04 am

Marcel Keinan, a jobs ‘guru’ in Israel for his native Brazilians, dies at 68

By Marcus M. Gilban May 4, 2021 3:23 pm

Yosef Kleinman, the youngest survivor to testify at Eichmann trial, dies at 91

By Ron Kampeas May 4, 2021 2:30 pm

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