Obituaries

Dr. Morton Mower, Jewish co-inventor of a revolutionary defibrillator, dies at 89

An implantable device controls the heart rhythms of hundreds of thousands of patients every year.

Jewish cyclist killed in Brooklyn hit-and-run was an architect who studied multifaith spaces

Eric Salitsky, 35, was struck by a sanitation truck whose driver fled the scene.

Remembering Neal Adams, a comic book legend who championed Holocaust awareness

Adams was not Jewish but had a strong interest in the Holocaust, both because of childhood memories from Germany and because his mother-in-law was a Jewish refugee from Nazi-occupied Poland.

David Sharif, a ‘bright light’ among advocates for those with disabilities, dies at 24

Orrin Hatch wrote a Hanukkah song and wore a mezuzah around his neck for 4 decades

Marvin Chomsky, director of the influential TV miniseries ‘Holocaust,’ dies at 92

Beloved Bay Area Jewish educator Rachel Brodie dies at 55

Gilbert Gottfried, whose foul-mouthed comic persona concealed a content Jewish dad, dies at 67

Andor Stern, recognized as the only Brazilian-born Holocaust survivor, dies at 94

Mimi Reinhard, Jewish secretary who typed up Schindler’s list saving herself and other Jews, has died at 107

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