Daniel J. Edelman, founder of the huge public relations that bears his name, has died. He was 92. Edelman, who retired in 1996, passed away from heart failure on Tuesday morning, according to the Chicago Tribune. A graduate of Columbia College and the Columbia Journalism School, Edelman was a newspaper editor and reporter before being…
Pulitzer-Prize winning correspondent and author Richard Ben Cramer, best known for his chronicle of the 1988 U.S. presidential election, died on Monday in Baltimore. The cause of death was lung cancer, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer, where Cramer worked for seven years. He was 62. Cramer won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize in international reporting for…
Rabbi Irwin Groner, a former president of the Conservative movement’s Rabbinical Assembly, has died. Groner, who led Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Detroit for more than four decades, died Dec. 30 at a hospital in that city. He was 81 and suffered from Parkinson’s disease. He guided the Rabbinical Assembly, the international association of Conservative rabbis,…
I’ve always loved “The Lives They Lived,” the year-end issue of The New York Times Magazine profiling famous and not-so-famous people who made an impact on the world and died during the previous 12 months. No, let me correct that. I should say that I’ve loved the issue until now. This difference is not attributable…
Beate Sirota Gordon, who at age 22 was responsible for enshrining equal rights for women in the post-World War II Japanese constitution, and then went on to found the award-winning performing arts programs of both the Japan Society and The Asia Society, died peacefully in her sleep in her home in New York, surrounded by…
Emmy-winning actor Jack Klugman, a versatile, raspy-voiced mainstay of U.S. television during the 1970s and early ’80s through his starring roles in “The Odd Couple” and “Quincy, M.E.,” died on Monday at the age of 90. Klugman, whose pairing with Tony Randall on “The Odd Couple” created one of television’s most memorable duos, died at…
Israel lost one of its best friends ever to serve in the U.S. Congress with the passing of Sen. Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaii. The nine-term senator, who sold Israel Bonds and once considered converting to Judaism, died Monday at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center from respiratory complications. He was 88. His final word…
Indian musician and composer Ravi Shankar, who helped introduce the sitar to the Western world through his collaborations with The Beatles, died in Southern California on Tuesday, his family said. He was 92. Shankar, a three-time Grammy winner with legendary appearances at the 1967 Monterey Festival and at Woodstock, had been in fragile health for…
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