Obituaries

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

Joe Bryant, a former NBA player who died Monday, was remembered as a gentle giant by people who knew him at the former Akiba Hebrew Academy in Philadelphia.

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

Recent deaths include the ‘Jewish grandma’ who helped write the rules on biotechnology research, and an astronomer who mapped the Solar System.

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

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

Remembering Rabbi Andrew Sacks, 70, a ‘rabble-rouser’ who fought for religious pluralism in Israel

Kinky Friedman, singer and novelist who fronted The Texas Jewboys, dies at 79

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