Obituaries

Jewish Life Stories: The Jewish refugee who wrote the book on human rights

“The continued observance of human rights requires constant vigilance,” Leah Levin wrote.

By Andrew Silow-Carroll July 3, 2024 11:56 am

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Rabbi Burt Jacobson, social activist and founder of Bay Area Renewal synagogue, dies at 87

He created a full-fledged, multi-generational synagogue for a counter-cultural Jewish movement.

July 2, 2024 5:00 pm

Remembering Rabbi Andrew Sacks, 70, a ‘rabble-rouser’ who fought for religious pluralism in Israel

The longtime director of the Rabbinical Assembly in Israel sought to level the playing field for non-Orthodox Jewish expression in the Jewish state.

July 2, 2024 11:47 am

Kinky Friedman, singer and novelist who fronted The Texas Jewboys, dies at 79

By Andrew Silow-Carroll June 27, 2024 3:25 pm

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Jewish Life Stories: Houston mourns a ‘PR Fairy’ killed in a fall

By Andrew Silow-Carroll June 26, 2024 10:01 am

Jewish Life Stories: A refusenik who found literary freedom in America, and a rabbi’s wife who died after giving birth to twins

By Andrew Silow-Carroll June 19, 2024 10:05 am

Heather Conn Hendel, 48, teacher, caregiver, matchmaker and newlywed, dies days after giving birth

By Jackie Hajdenberg June 14, 2024 6:23 pm

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Frieda Johles Forman, ‘fiery’ feminist who rediscovered Yiddish women authors, dies at 87

By Andrew Silow-Carroll June 14, 2024 1:35 pm

Morrie Markoff, Jewish supercentenarian and oldest man in US, dies at 110

By Andrew Silow-Carroll June 11, 2024 5:44 pm

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