Obituaries

Larry King, legendary Jewish TV interviewer, dies at 87

The talk show host born Lawrence Zeiger was known for his decades of friendly interviews and trademark suspenders. He had been hospitalized with COVID-19.

Jewish Harvard Medical School professor dies while climbing in Pakistan’s mountains

Alex Goldfarb was an immigrant from the former Soviet Union, a “devout Jew” and the loving father of two sons.

Norman Golb, pioneering Dead Sea Scrolls and Jewish history scholar, dies at 92

In a career full of discoveries about ancient Jewish history, Golb upended and broadened study of the celebrated Jewish texts.

Phil Spector, rock legend and convicted murderer, dies at 81

Sylvain Sylvain, Jewish guitarist for the influential band New York Dolls, has died at 69

Sheldon Adelson, megadonor to Israel and Republicans, is dead at 87

George Blake, a former MI6 officer, enters a car in Moscow, Russia on June 28, 2001.(Yuri Martianov/Kommersant Photo/AFP via Getty Images)

George Blake, British spy for Soviet Union, dies in Moscow at 98

Those we lost in 2020: Remembering the rabbis, pioneers, innovators and family members

Rabbi Yehuda Herzl Henkin, pioneer of women’s leadership in Orthodoxy, dies

Jack Steinberger, pioneering Jewish physicist and Nobel Prize winner, dies at 99

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