You can either thank or blame Daniel Thompson for creating the bagel machine. Thompson, who died this week at age 94, helped take the bagel mainstream with a contraption that could manufacture hundreds of bagels an hour. British-born, Thompson was himself the son of a Jewish baker. But in 1963, his invention fell into the…
Robert Wistrich, a leading scholar of anti-Semitism and its history, has died. Wistrich, the Neuburger Professor of European and Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the head of the University’s Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism, died of a heart attack on Tuesday evening in Rome at the age…
Gene Sosin, a former director of broadcasting for Radio Liberty, has died. Sosin died earlier this month at his home in White Plains, New York. He was 93. He spent 33 years at Radio Liberty serving in various posts. Sosin also was a writer, lecturer and specialist in Soviet affairs. Sosin earned an undergraduate degree…
Rabbi Moshe Levinger, a founder of the settlement movement and the spiritual leader of the Jewish community of Hebron, has died. Levinger, who was convicted of killing a Palestinian when he fired into a crowd in 1988, died on Saturday at the age of 80, after recent health problems and complications from a stroke seven…
Josh Ozersky in 2013 in an episode of Ozersky.tv. (Reuters) – Josh Ozersky, an award-winning food critic who preached the wonders of eating meat and founded the Meatopia outdoor food festival, has died in Chicago at age 47. Ozersky was found dead on Monday in a room in Chicago’s Conrad Hotel, the Cook County Medical…
Many people forget their English professors as soon as the last exam has been passed, but Meyer Howard Abrams, who died on April 21st at the age of 102, was an exception to this and other general rules. Abrams, who signed his books M. H. and was known to friends and colleagues at Cornell as…
Benjamin Harshav, a translator, poet and scholar of Hebrew and Yiddish literature, died April 23 in New Haven, Connecticut. He was 86. Harshav was a mentor to generations of students and, together with his wife Barbara Harshav, a prolific translator of Yiddish and Hebrew poetry. Harshav also translated Yiddish and German literature into Hebrew, and…
I remember Rav Aharon Lichtenstein often retelling the passage from the Talmud of Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakai’s death. The sage’s students surrounded him on his deathbed and asked for a blessing. Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakai’s odd response is this: May you fear God as much as you fear man. Shouldn’t we fear God much more?…
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