Obituaries

New York rabbi drowns after jumping in lake to save his child

Rabbi David Traub, 38, was not able to make it back to a pontoon boat and was pulled under the water.

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Rabbi Reuven Hammer, a pioneer of Conservative Judaism in Israel, dies at 86

He served as the first Israeli president of the International Rabbinical Assembly and was a leading scholar.

Morton Bahr

Morton Bahr, who led Communications Workers of America, is dead at 93

He led telecommunications workers after the industry was thrown into turmoil by the breakup of the AT&T Bell System.

Hal Prince

Harold Prince, who brought ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ to the stage, dies at 91

German historian who faked family Holocaust story dies at 31

Richard Stone, Florida’s first Jewish senator since Civil War, dies at 90

Mark Talisman, champion of key law in fight for Soviet Jewry, is dead at 78

Lucette Lagnado

Lucette Lagnado, whose prize-winning memoir recalled her family’s Egyptian-Jewish past, dies at 63

Artur Brauner, German-Jewish producer of ‘Europa Europa’ and other major films, dies at 100

Brazilian veteran Jewish journalist Salomao Schvartzman dies at 85

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