Obituaries

(December 26, 2022 / JNS) Rabbi Haim Drukman, the spiritual leader of the religious Zionism movement, passed away at age 90 in Jerusalem on Sunday. He had been struggling with COVID-19 for...

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman The entire Five Towns and Queens community was in a state of shock over the sudden passing of a remarkable woman, Mrs. Alice Marks, of Cedarhurst....

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman Tuesday night, the Five Towns/Far Rockaway community lost someone very special—18-year-old Immanuel Warshawsky, son of Dr. and Mrs. Mendel and Faigie Warshawsky. So many institutions in...

By Larry Gordon When you drive down Rockaway Turnpike, either on the way home or to visit friends or family, most of the time you will come to a stop...

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Dr. Steven Krauss,63, of blessed memory, was one of the genuine Tzaddikim of the Five Towns and a personal friend.  Dr. Krauss leaves a...

Devoted herself to Jewish children for eight decades By Mendel Super In 1944, as a 17-year-old student at Thomas Jefferson High School in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, N.Y., Chave Lasker...

(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...