Obituaries

Publisher and Human Rights Watch founder Robert Bernstein died in Manhattan after a brief illness at the age of 96, his son Peter Bernstein confirmed on Tuesday. Bernstein was president of...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Herman Wouk died on just 10 days before his 104th birthday. His literary agent, Amy Rennert, said he died in his sleep at his home in Palm...

  My father passed away last Thursday morning at the age of 91. The following is the eulogy I delivered for my father last Thursday. Parkinson’s is a cruel disease. It...

BY RON KAMPEAS (JTA) — The brother of a kosher supervisor slain last year in Chicago will name a kosher cafe in London after him. Rabbi Yossi Moscowitz told the Jewish Chronicle that...

By Joseph Frager, MD It is an honor and a privilege to write about great individuals, especially those who tremendously impacted my own life and politics. Joe Mermelstein, z’l, was...

By Yochanan Gordon The following is a eulogy I wrote for my dear brother-in-law, Chaim Moshe ben Binyamin Tzvi, the morning of his levayah, just one week ago. Circumstances precluded...

Chief Rabbi of the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak, Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Leib Landau, passed away on March 30 at the age of 84. Landau served in his position for...

With profound sorrow, we regret to inform the community of the passing of Moshe Hirsch A”H, beloved husband of Malkie (Gordon) Hirsch and father of Dovid, Nisson, Yosef, Gavriel...

By Avrumie Kahn In Mishlei, Shlomo HaMelech (30:30) states, “The lion is the mightiest of the beasts, who is undaunted by anyone.” This pasuk, in describing a lion’s might, only...

Michel Bacos, the Air France pilot who, along with his crew, stayed with Israeli and Jewish hostages during the July 1976 hijacking that diverted the plane to Uganda’s Entebbe...