Obituaries

Jeff Brotman, Costco founder, is dead at 74

The grandson of Romanian Jewish immigrants built America's third-largest retail chain.

Disney lieutenant and chief ‘Imagineer’ Marty Sklar dies at 83

Sklar distilled a list of “Mickey’s Commandments” that guided the company's theme parks, attractions and resorts.

Jewish athlete barred from 1936 Berlin Olympics dies at 103

Margaret Bergmann Lambert was forced by the Nazis to try out for the games to deflect accusations of racism, only to be unjustly disqualified from participating.

Martin Landau, Oscar winner and ‘Mission: Impossible’ star, dies at 89

Bill Goldman, 38, historian, philanthropist and Levi Strauss heir, killed in plane crash

Sheila Michaels, iconic feminist who popularized ‘Ms.,’ dies at 78

Jonathan Woocher, leading Jewish educational theorist, dies at 70

Simone Veil, French feminist and politician who survived the Holocaust, dies at 89

Valentin Pimstein, pioneer of Mexican telenovelas, dies at 91

Rabbi Meir Zlotowitz, founder of ArtScroll Publications, dies at 73

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