Obituaries

Martin Indyk, pictured in 2015. (Brookings Institution Press)

Martin Indyk, blunt diplomat who longed for Arab-Israeli peace, dies at 73

Indyk may be the only diplomat to have the distinction of publicly enduring anti-Jewish slurs from both Israeli and Arab officials.

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Alex Dancyg.

Jewish Life Stories: Hostage Alex Dancyg, a Holocaust educator, is confirmed dead in Gaza

Other notable deaths include a Swedish Yiddish poet, and attorney who helped assure a person’s right to legal counsel.

Peter Buxtun, whistleblower who compared Tuskegee syphilis study to Nazi atrocities, dies at 86

Born in Czechoslovakia to a Jewish father and Catholic mother, he sounded the alarm on an unethical study of Black men.

Kobe Bryant’s father Joe, who once coached a Jewish girls basketball team, dies at 69

David Liederman.

Jewish Life Stories: David Liederman, the father of ‘David’s Cookies,’ dies at 75

Ruth Westheimer, Holocaust survivor who offered grandmotherly sex advice as ‘Dr. Ruth,’ dies at 96

Mordechai Rosenstein, calligrapher whose art illuminates Jewish homes and synagogues, dies at 90

Yakir Shmuel Tatelbaum.

Jewish Life Stories: An Israeli-American soldier falls in battle

Jewish Life Stories: The Jewish refugee who wrote the book on human rights

Rabbi Burt Jacobson, social activist and founder of Bay Area Renewal synagogue, dies at 87

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