Obituaries

British historian Sir Martin Gilbert, official Churchill biographer, dies

Gilbert, the author of 80 books, wrote on the subjects of the Holocaust, World War I and World War II, and Jewish history, as well as Winston Churchill.

Rabbi Dovid Winiarz, popular N.Y. outreach rabbi, killed in car accident

The self-proclaimed “Facebuker Rebbe” for his efforts over Facebook was a passenger in a vehicle that lost control on an icy road in Maryland and struck another car.

Jack Polak, survivor who founded Anne Frank Center USA, dies at 102

The Amsterdam native and later New Yorker released a book based on his correspondence in concentration camps with the woman who would become his second wife.

Bess Myerson, only Jewish Miss America, dead at 90

Ruth Popkin, former national president of Hadassah and JNF, dies

Mario Cuomo married strident liberalism and sensitivity to the Orthodox

Los Angeles philanthropist Guilford Glazer dies

Rabbi Leonard Beerman, known for political activism, dies

Remembering Robert Wolfe, guardian of Nazi-era archives

Rabbi Harold Schulweis, pathbreaking thinker and activist, dies at 89

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