Obituaries

Comedian Robin Williams passed away at age 63 in his Northern California home. He was 63. Williams wasn't Jewish, but he was certainly funny enough...

Film director and producer Menachem Golan, of Golan-Globus fame, passed away on Friday, August 8, at age 85.

Rabbi Yaacov Arar, who served as the chief rabbi of Athens for over four decades, has died.

In Israel, leadership is no protection against grief in wartime; Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon is related to fallen Givati officer 2nd Lt. Hadar Goldin.

Major Benaya Sarel was supposed to get married on August 21, his funeral was held on Saturday night.

Shuka Dorfman, head of the Israel Antiquities Authority, has passed away at 64 after a serious illness.

Mrs. Beck took personal interest and was hands-on, sharing with her children, grandchildren, and others the wonderful values that she stood for.

Tommy was the last member of the band that defined, inspired and spearheaded punk rock music in the US and the UK.

Far from missiles and mortar shells, Canadian Israeli Philanthropist David Azrieli has passed away at the age of 92.

Conrad Morris, a philanthropist and businessman, passed away on Saturday night.

Uri Elitzur, the Editor of Makor Rishon and Sololov journalism prize winner, passed away on Thursday at age 68.

The former director of the 92nd Street Y is dead after hanging himself last Friday at his home in Seagate.

Al Feldstein, the former long-time editor of Mad Magazine who turned Alfred E. Neuman into an American icon, died in Montana on Tuesday at...

PM Binyamin Netanyahu blamed Palestinian Authority incitement for the terrorist murder of a police officer on Passover eve.

Jacob Birnbaum mobilized students to call on the Kremlin to stop the oppression of Soviet Jews.

Rivka Haut, a foremost advocate for agunot, Orthodox women who have been refused a religious divorce and also a founder of the Women of...

Iran's Chief Rabbi, Chacham Rabbi Yosef Hamadani Cohen died over Shabbat.

Peretz Sontag, a widely respected Orthodox Jew from Monsey who has been missing for 10 days, was found dead in his car that crashed...

Retired Supreme Court Edmund Levy, who headed a three-man committee that debunked allegations that Israel is an “occupier,” died Tuesday night at the age...

Moscowitz died after not waking up during a routine surgical procedure on Tuesday.

A New Jersey rabbinical student on his way to morning prayers was struck by a garbage truck and killed in Brooklyn. Gedalia Gruntzweig, 25, a...

Alice Herz-Sommer, the 110-year-old Holocaust survivor and concert pianist whose life was the subject of an Oscar-nominated documentary, has died. Herz-Sommer, who was believed to...

One is remembered for his mitzvahs and good deeds, and Rabbi “Heritage House’ Schuster will be remembered forever.

Sid Caeser, one of the Jewish pioneers of comedy on television, is literally irreplaceable.

Gordon Zacks, a founder of the Republican Jewish Coalition and an unofficial adviser to George H.W. Bush, has died. Zacks, a businessman who also was...

Barry Rubin's was a rare voices of clarity in the Israeli academia and in Jewish media. He was one of the good guys.

Legendary folk singer and political activist Pete Seeger, who died on Monday in New York City at the age of 94, left behind a...

The wife of Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein, Tatiana (Tania) Edelstein passed away on Thursday night at age 63. The Edelsteins became religious while still living...

Her name was synonymous with leftist animosity towards Jewish tradition in Israel.

Ariel Sharon, aka Arik, was Israel's 11th Prime Minister and perhaps its most heroic and controversial leader.