Screenwriter of ‘The Graduate’ and ‘Get Smart’ Dies at 89
(JTA) — Buck Henry, the screenwriter and director who earned an Oscar-nomination for his script for the 1967 film “The Graduate,” has died at 89.
Henry, born Henry Zuckerman in...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies at 87
BY SARAH WILDMAN
WASHINGTON (JTA) – Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the first Jewish woman to serve on the Supreme Court and a tireless advocate for gender equality, has died at 87.
A fierce...
Colin Powell, who brokered the Middle East ‘road map’ to peace, dies at 84
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...
Rabbi Gedalia Dov Schwartz Dies at 95
(JTA) — Rabbi Gedalia Dov Schwartz, a longtime judge in Orthodox rabbinical courts and a leading authority in Jewish law, died Thursday. He was 95.
Schwartz served as the lead...
Longtime NBA Commissioner David Stern Dies at 77
(JTA) — David Stern, who in three decades as NBA commissioner guided the league from financial distress to become a multibillion-dollar global enterprise, died Wednesday. He was 77.
His philanthropy...
Noah Klieger: Holocaust Survivor, Journalist, Dies
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Editor’s Note: Journalist Noah Klieger died at age 92 on December 13, 2018.
(JTA) — As a prisoner in Auschwitz, Noah Klieger narrowly escaped death through sheer audacity: Selected for the...
Israeli Author, Intellectual Amos Oz Dies at Age 79
Israeli author, journalist and intellectual Amos Oz died on Friday at the age of 79.
“My beloved father, Amos Oz, a wonderful family man, an author, a man of peace...
Historic Statesman, who Advised Presidents, Henry Kissinger Dead at 100
DAVID SWINDLE
(November 30, 2023 / JNS)
Alan Dershowitz first met Henry Kissinger in the mid-1960s. “We were both professors at Harvard, and his son and my son were elementary school...
Jewish-American Among 21 Victims of Nairobi Terrorist Attack
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...
French Pilot on Flight Hijacked to Entebbe Dies at 95
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...