Obituaries

IDF recovers remains of Gadi and Judith Weinstein Haggai, American-Israelis killed on Oct. 7

The couple was on their morning walk on Kibbutz Nir Oz when terrorists attacked.

Helena Weinrauch, Holocaust survivor and ‘dancing angel,’ dies at 100

The beloved Upper West Sider was known for her late-in-life passion for ballroom dancing, as well as for wearing the same hand-knit sweater at Passover every year.

Marcel Ophuls, French Jewish director of ‘The Sorrow and the Pity,’ dies at 97

He spent the last years of his life trying to make a documentary about Israel.

Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim identified as victims in Capital Jewish Museum shooting

Margot Friedlander, German Holocaust survivor who landed a Vogue cover, dies at 103

Remembering ‘Dry Bones’ cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen, who sketched Israeli feats and foibles for 50 years

Sholom Lipskar, influential Chabad rabbi who reshaped Florida community, dies at 78

Jill Sobule, pop star who also composed songs for a new ‘Yentl,’ dies at 66

David Horowitz, ’60s radical turned right-wing firebrand and critic of Islam, dies at 86

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