Obituaries

Tziporah Feige Kaplan, the daughter of the late Rabbi and MK Meir Kahane, founder of The Jewish Defense League and the Kach party who was assassinated in New York by an Arab gunman, passed away over Shabbat at the age…

Remembering the indefatigable Jewish leader whose life embodied the saga of the Jewish state. Few people ever embodied Israel like Shimon Peres, who has died at the age of 93. Born in Belorussia in 1923, Shimon Peres’ life closely mirrored…

While walking through my Jerusalem hotel dining room thinking about the news from the states that a U.S. court has tossed out a $655 million terrorism judgment, a young woman came up and gave me a big “Hi!” Seeing that…

A regular visitor of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, who advised him on a public career spanning 60 years By the age of 12 he had become a Nazarite, just like his father, foregoing haircuts and eschewing meat, wine and leather shoes….

To the world she was a survivor and trailblazing visionary. To me and my siblings she was our mother who was always there for us. These are most difficult words for me to write. Today I got up from sitting…

I write these words about one hour after the passing of Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis. My wife and I met Rebbetzin Jungreis in Newburgh, New York in the spring of 1974. As I walked into the synagogue, I put on a…

A. Alfred Taubman, the self-made billionaire and philanthropist, has died at home in Bloomfield, Michigan, at the age of 91. Taubman, born January 31, 1924 in Pontiac, Michigan to poor Jewish immigrant parents from Białystok, Poland, got his first start…

Rabbi Lichtenstein was one of the religious-Zionist world’s most recognizable faces, and considered one of the world’s leading halakhic authorities. He also received the illustrious Israel Prize in Torah Literature. His funeral will start on Tuesday at 10 a.m., and…

One of the greatest philanthropists of the century passes away. Mr. Paul Reichmann passed away recently at the age of 83 in Toronto. Mr. Reichmann was a Canadian businessman who built Olympia and York Developments into a multi-billion dollar empire…

Bill Mazer, the sports-talk radio pioneer who also was a fixture in New York television during a 60-year career, died this past Wednesday. He was 92. Mazer’s son, actor Arnie Mazer, said his father died at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut….

On Monday, the entire Jewish world mourned the passing of Sephardic Torah giant Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, who died at the age of 93. His passing was not only covered by Israeli and Jewish media but was noted in the worldwide…

Renowned son of leading Sephardic Torah authority, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Shlita On Friday, April 12, thousands mourned profusely upon hearing the news that Sephardic Torah authority Rabbi Yaakov Chai Yosef, the son of Shas’s spiritual leader, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Shlita,…

Bonnie Franklin, star of the long-running CBS sitcom One Day at a Time, died March 1 at her home in Los Angeles. The cause was complications of pancreatic cancer, which she had been diagnosed with back in September. Bonnie Gail…

The town of Deal, New Jersey was dealt a most painful blow, as their highly esteemed mayor, Harry I. Franco passed away on January 30, following an illness. He was 79. His career as a tireless advocate for the community…

David Hartman, director of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem and author of numerous works on modern Jewish philosophy, passed away on Sunday, February 10. He was 81. Hartman, ordained as an Orthodox rabbi, was considered a leading light of…