Obituaries

Joseph Wapner, retired judge who starred on ‘The People’s Court,’ dies at 97

Wapner heard thousands of cases during his 12 years on the first television reality show,

Physicist Mildred Dresselhaus, ‘Queen of Carbon,’ dies at 86

Pioneering research by the daughter of impoverished Jewish immigrants was foundational to the field called nanoscience.

Leah Adler, mother of Steven Spielberg and popular restaurateur, dies at 97

Although invariably linked to her famous son, Adler also earned renown as proprietor of The Milky Way restaurant in Los Angeles popular with Orthodox rabbis, show biz luminaries and tourists.

Edgar Krasa, a Holocaust survivor who sang in the Theresienstadt chorus, dies at 95

Chaim Ferster, survivor of 8 Nazi concentration camps, dies at 94

Mayer Abramowitz, rabbi to Miami’s Cuban exiles, dies at 97

Jules Sauer, Brazilian ‘Gemstone Hunter,’ dies at 95

Rabbi Herman Schaalman, the oldest living Reform rabbi, dies at 100

Brunhilde Pomsel, Joseph Goebbels’ former personal secretary, dies at 106

Stephen P. Cohen, Middle East intermediary, dies at 71

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