Obituaries

18 notable Jewish New Yorkers who died in 2024

Writers, rabbis, comedians and a master tailor are some of the people we lost in 2024.

Yuval Shoham, 22, soldier who searched for his captive friend Hersh Goldberg-Polin, dies in Gaza

Shoham is at least the ninth graduate of his Jerusalem high school to die in the war.

Jimmy Carter, former president who brokered first Arab-Israeli peace accord, is dead at 100

The president who secured the Egyptian-Israeli peace accord in 1978 went on to become the target of vitriol for his warnings that Israel was headed toward apartheid.

Arlene Agus, New Yorker who popularized Rosh Chodesh rituals for Jewish women, dies at 75

Jewish Life Stories: One of the last ‘Ritchie Boys’ dies at 101

18 notable Jews who died in 2024

Jewish Life Stories: Jim Abrahams, the filmmaker who co-piloted ‘Airplane!’ into comedy history, dies at 80

Family of hostage Keith Siegel buries its matriarch, 424 days into his captivity in Gaza

Ursula Haverbeck, infamous German Holocaust denier known as ‘Nazi grandma,’ dies at 96

Arthur Frommer, ‘wandering Jew’ who launched a travel guide empire, dies at 95

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