Obituaries

(January 31, 2022 / Jerusalem / JNS) Esther Pollard, 68, the wife of convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, died on Monday at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem. She...

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Colin Powell will be remembered in history as the first Black U.S. national security advisor, the first Black military chief of staff and the first Black...

New York Jewish Week via JTA) — The longtime and pioneering leader of Brooklyn’s Yeshivah of Flatbush, Rabbi David Eliach, died Thursday. Eliach, who was 99, supervised the education of...

(JTA) — Jackie Mason, who died Saturday at 93, didn’t always set out to be a comedian. In fact, it wasn’t until he was 30 that he left behind...

BOSTON (JTA) – Carl J. Shapiro, one of Boston’s most significant philanthropists and Brandeis University’s most generous donor, died March 7 at his home in Boston. He was 108. Shapiro...

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman This morning, Klal Yisroel lost one of its most eminent Poskim, Dayan Yechezkel Roth zt”l.  Dayan Roth was an extraordinary talmid chochom, a tzaddik, and had...

This morning, early Sunday, the shocking news came that Rav Yechezkel Roth collapsed at home. His holy Neshamah ascended on high a short time later. He had been unwell for a...

By Rabbi Benzion Scheinfeld Educator and Director of Camp Kanfei Nesharim Throughout my life, since high school, I had almost idolized Rabbi Dr. Twerski, zt’l. Here was a man who had...

On Thursday evening, February 11, 2021, 29 Shevat 5781, Rosh Chodesh Adar, the Rabbinical Alliance of America/Igud HaRabbonim gathered with family and friends to observe the fifth yahrzeit of...

Rush Limbaugh, an American radio personality, conservative political commentator, author, and television show host, best known as the host of his radio show The Rush Limbaugh Show, died at...