Obituaries

Lesley Gore, singer of ‘It’s My Party’ fame, dies

Gore, a teen sensation in the ’60s who also had hits with “Judy’s Turn to Cry” and “You Don’t Own Me,” died of cancer at 68.

Israeli government minister Uri Orbach dies at 54

The pensioner affairs minister and Jewish Home lawmaker died a month after announcing that he was taking a break from politics to be treated for an unspecified blood illness.

CBS News reporter Bob Simon killed in N.Y. car crash

Simon, who covered nearly every major overseas conflict and news story since the late 1960s, earned 27 Emmy Awards and wrote a book about being held captive in Iraq.

Polish survivor Roman Frister, a former Haaretz editor, dies

British historian Sir Martin Gilbert, official Churchill biographer, dies

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

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

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

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