Obituaries

George Segal, vanguard of 1960s wave of young Jewish actors, dies at 87

Segal’s defiance and self-deprecation in refusing to change his Jewish name or get a nose job helped pave the way for a generation of unabashedly Jewish actors.

After losing her father, this NY paramedic went back to work responding to COVID calls

“I heard the cold and a little bit of cough, and I just knew,” Carol Ackerman, a paramedic, recalled about losing her father, Stanley Teich, to COVID-19.

James Levine, cantor’s grandson who led the Metropolitan Opera for 40 years, is dead at 77

He was among the dominant figures in opera and American classical music until being fired in 2018 amid sexual misconduct allegations dating back to the 1980s.