Israel lost its most honored senior statesman, the last active member of its founding generation, with the death today of Shimon Peres, the former ceremonial state president and ex-prime minister. Peres, who was 93, was rushed to Tel Hashomer Hospital September 13 after suffering a stroke and died the morning of Wednesday September 28, two…
LOS ANGELES — Stanley Sheinbaum, who dedicated his life to the promotion and defense of liberal causes in the United States and the world, has died. Sheinbaum, an activist for nearly 70 years, died Monday at his Los Angeles home. He was 96. “Like a modern-day Forrest Gump – albeit one with a Phi Beta Kappa…
JERUSALEM — Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, a former Labor Party leader and defense minister who served in the Knesset for 30 years, has died. Ben Eliezer, who withdrew from the country’s presidential election in 2014 over corruption charges, died Sunday in a Tel Aviv hospital. He was 80. Known by the nickname “Fouad,” Ben-Eliezer served in the Knesset…
— Esther Jungreis, a pioneer in the Jewish outreach movement and founder of the organization Hineni, died Tuesday. She was 80, according to the Vos Iz Neias blog. An announcement published in October on the site Only Simchas indicated Jungreis was “in serious condition” and fighting an infection, but did not specify her ailment. Jungreis was born in Szeged,…
For the 85th birthday of Professor Wiesel, I was asked to write a small essay to present my first encounter with Elie Wiesel. This article was published in the book “Take a Teacher, Make a Friend,” special edition for the 85th anniversary of Elie Wiesel, published by Boston University in 2014. Today, after his death,…
Sir Arnold Wesker, a prominent British-Jewish playwright whose work touched on many Jewish issues, has died at 83. Wesker, who wrote more than 40 plays that were translated into 18 languages, died Tuesday evening of Parkinson’s disease, the Washington Post reported. Wesker first drew attention in 1957 for his play “Chicken Soup with Barley,” part…
(JTA) — Garry Shandling, the award-winning American Jewish comedian who at 66, will have a Buddhist funeral. The service, which Shandling had arranged secretly, will take place next month, TMZ reported. The cause of his March 24 death is still unknown. According to the celebrity gossip site, “He was never very vocal about it, but…
A Holocaust survivor who became a New Orleans tailor with such celebrity clients as Fats Domino and Elvis Presley, is dead at 100. Joseph Sher died Thursday at Lambeth House, a New Orleans retirement community and assisted-living facility, The Times-Picayune reported. He was the oldest Holocaust survivor in New Orleans and the leader of the…
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