Obituaries

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...

BY MARCY OSTER (JTA) — The remains of a Jewish serviceman killed in the bombing of Pearl Harbor have been identified. Charles M. Stern Jr. of Albany, New York, was an ensign...

(JPost) Israeli-American Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein died at the age of 67 from sudden heart failure on Wednesday. Eckstein was well-known as the president of the International Fellowship of Christians...

(JTA) — Leonard Dinnerstein, a historian who specialized in the study anti-Semitism in the United States, died at the age of 84. Dinnerstein died at his home in Tucson, Arizona...

A 20-year-old man was charged on Saturday with the murder of Israeli student Aiia Maasarwe in Melbourne amidst an outrage over violence against women in Australia’s second-largest city. Maasarwe, 21,...

  By Ariel All my brothers and I attended Yeshiva of South Shore where Rabbi Herzberg, zt’l, was the menahel for over 38 years. My oldest brother was valedictorian, and as...

BY RON KAMPEAS (JTA) — Jason Spindler, a Jewish American whose life was changed when he survived the 9/11 attack in New York, was killed in a terrorist attack in...