Obituaries

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.

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.

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

Born in Brazil to Jewish parents who fled Poland in the early 1930s, Lerner became internationally known for his innovative Bus Rapid Transportation system.