Obituary

How Matti Caspi’s music became a treasured national soundtrack - comment

Israelis of every age can sing Caspi's tunes, and his talent was such that he worked in many different styles.

Matti Caspi working on audio engineering for the IDF entertainment team on March 17, 1972.
ELAINE GROSSINGER Etess (second from right) with son Mitchell Grossinger Etess (left) and great-grandchildren Ashley and Mark Etess, grandchildren of the late Mark Etess.

Jewish proprietor of Grossinger’s Catskill Resort Hotel dies at 98

DESIGNER VALENTINO Garavani poses as he arrives for the gala screening of the film 'Nocturnal Animals' during the 60th British Film Institute (BFI) London Film Festival at Leicester Square in London, Britain October 14, 2016.

Italian fashion designer Valentino dead at 93

Ambassador Eitan Na'eh at his first day in the Manama, Bahrain embassy, November 30, 2021.

Eitan Na'eh, Israel's first ambassador to Bahrain, dies at 62


Mary Ann Stein, philanthropist who supported social justice in US and Israel, dies at 80

A supporter of Palestinian as well as Israeli Jewish rights, she served as co-president of Americans for Peace Now and supported then-President Bill Clinton’s criticism of Israeli settlement policy.

Mary Ann Stein was the founding president of The Moriah Fund, and a past president of New Israel Fund.

Robert M. Beren: Remembering a Jewish philanthropic giant - opinion

Mr. Beren’s impact on the Jewish community, and especially on Jewish education, has been of global magnitude. He spent his life supporting countless major Jewish institutions.

 PROMINENT JEWISH philanthropist Robert M. Beren, who passed away last month, attends the dedication of Ohr Torah Stone’s Beren Academic Center in Migdal Oz, in 2012.

Andrea Pancur, singer who bridged German and Yiddish song traditions, dies at 54

Although raised Catholic, Pancur felt an affinity with the Yiddish musical culture that thrived for centuries across Europe before its devastation by the Holocaust.

 A German daily called Andrea Pancur "the most important representative of Yiddish culture in Germany."

Huwara terror victim's widow: 'He raised my children as his own'

Silas Nigerker's partner told Maariv that he had been going to Huwara for errands all the time.

 Shai Nigerker (Z"l) and his partner Rina.

Nechama Tec, survivor whose book about the Bielski partisans inspired film ‘Defiance,’ dies at 92

When Tec set out to write a book about the Bielski brothers, she sought to fill in omissions and correct distortions created by their almost-total excision from historical accounts of the Holocaust.

 University of Connecticut sociologist and historian Nechama Tec's 1993 book “Defiance: The Bielski Partisans” was adapted for a 2008 film directed by Edward Zwick.

Robbie Robertson, songwriting force in rock group The Band, dies at 80

Robertson is of Jewish descent, coming from his father's side of the family.

 Robbie Robertson, songwriting force in rock group The Band, dies at 80

Florence Berger, 83, Cornell professor, practitioner of the art of Jewish matchmaking

As an amateur matchmaker, she reportedly arranged more than two dozen matches that resulted in successful marriages.

 Florence Berger, second from right, with her husband Toby and their children on a trip to Europe in the 1980s.

Beloved Jewish children's writer Mary Ann Hoberman dies at age 92

She co-founded and performed with “The Pocket People,” a children’s theater group, and “Women’s Voices,” a group giving dramatized poetry readings.

 Mary Ann Hoberman was the author of dozens of children books, including "Strawberry Hill" and “All Kinds of Families!”

Legendary American singer Tony Bennett dies at age 96

Legendary American singer Tony Bennett has died at the age of 96, the Associated Press reported Friday.

 Singer and artist Tony Bennett poses for a portrait before an opening of his art exhibition in the Manhattan borough of New York, US, May 3, 2017.

Professor Amnon Shapiro: A holy rebel - obituary

All who knew Shapiro knew that to him, the values of tolerance, equality, and justice were crucial religious values not only personally, but also underpinning our national identity.

 LL WHO knew Amnon Shapiro knew that the values of tolerance, equality, and justice were crucial religious values not only personally, but also underpinning our national identity, says the writer.