Obituaries

Israeli government minister David Azoulay dies of cancer at 64

Shortly after becoming the minister for religious services in 2015, he said Reform Jews are not Jewish.

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Brazilian Jewish real estate icon and philanthropist dies of apparent suicide at 58

He supported several Jewish institutions, including an organization for the needy, as well as schools, synagogues and community centers.

Rabbi David Posner, who served 40 years at flagship NYC Reform temple, dies at 70

Following his ordination, he was asked to join the rabbinical staff at Temple Emanu-El and never left.

Ruth Matar, co-founder of Israeli women’s group opposing land concessions after Oslo, dies

Robert Faurisson, a father of the Holocaust denial movement, dies at 89

Stefania Podgorska Burzminski, who hid 13 Jews in her attic in Poland, dies at 97

Yaakov Weinroth, attorney who represented Netanyahu and other politicians, dies at 71

Leon Lederman, Nobel-winning physicist who sold his prize to pay for medical expenses, dies at 96

Walter Laqueur

Walter Laqueur, the Holocaust survivor who reinvented terrorism studies, dies at 97

Marty Balin

Jefferson Airplane co-founder Marty Balin is dead at 76

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