Obituaries

Nikos Stavroulakis, activist promoting Jewish life and heritage in Greece, dies

Stavroulakis was the driving force behind the restoration of the centuries-old Etz Hayyim synagogue in Crete destroyed during World War II.

Rabbi Benny Elon, former Knesset member and champion of settlement movement, is dead at 62

Elon was removed from the Cabinet of then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in 2004 when he refused to vote for Sharon's plan to evacuate some 8,000 Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip.

Ruth Sulzberger Holmberg, newspaper publisher and civil right stalwart, dies at 96

Growing up in a newspaper family who owns the New York Times, Holmberg was regarded as an outsider and interloper for her liberal positions as head of The Chattanooga Times and her Jewish roots.

Jesse Lurie, longtime Hadassah Magazine editor, dies at 103

Rabbi Saul Leeman, who marched with Martin Luther King to Montgomery, is dead at 100

Dr. Mark Wainberg, renowned AIDS researcher, drowns while vacationing in Florida for Passover

Don Rickles, insult comedian and actor, is dead at 90

Masha Leon, Forward society columnist for 30 years, dies at 86

Ted Cutler, Boston philanthropist, businessman and arts patron, dies

Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, whose ‘Babi Yar’ exposed anti-Semitism, dies at 84

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