Famous jews

Actors, leaders, Holocaust survivors among 18 notable Jews who died in 2025

Despite its grief, the Jewish world also took time to celebrate the lives lived by a constellation of figures who made lasting contributions to film, architecture, politics, and Jewish scholarship.

18 notable Jews who died in 2025.
Odessa A'zion at A24's "Marty Supreme" New York Premiere on Dec. 16, 2025 in New York, New York.

Jewish actress Odessa A’zion pushes back after IDF T-shirt controversy: ‘Not a zio!’

PAUL SIMON performs onstage at the 2021 Global Citizen Live concert at Central Park in New York. ‘I find it hard to believe that your father, a professor of education, would have approved of your recent stance,’ the writer asserts.

Paul Simon shattered my dreams: Support for Barghouti is profoundly dissapointing - opinion

 (Illustrative) TURNING POINT USA executive director Charlie Kirk speaks at US President Donald Trump’s Inauguration Day ceremony at the Capital One Arena in Washington on January 20, 2025.

'A shining light for the American Jewish community': US Jewish leaders, groups grieve Charlie Kirk


Jewish porn star James Deen accused of raping ex-girlfriend, sexually assaulting 2 others

Deen says claims against him are “false and defamatory.”

Actor James Deen poses during a photocall during the 70th Venice Film Festival in Venice August 30, 2013.

Nonstop Zionist

WZO’s Avraham Duvdevani talks to ‘Post’ ahead of 37th World Zionist Congress.

WORLD ZIONIST ORGANIZATION head Avraham Duvdevani speaks in his office

Media comment: The late Moti Kirschenbaum

Like most leaders, Kirschenbaum made important contributions to the Israeli media, yet his failures were no less spectacular.

Moti Kirschenbaum

A celebration of ‘sickness’

Director Judd Apatow gets inside the minds of comedians to see what makes them tick

Judd Apatow

Prominent Jewish neurologist and author Oliver Sacks dies at 82

Dr. Sacks was a prominent neurologist, professor and best selling author.

Dr. Oliver Sacks

Samsung pulls allegedly anti-Semitic cartoons from its website

The subsidiaries at the heart of the debate issued a joint statement in which they asserted that they “condemn anti-Semitism in all its forms.”

Samsung cartoon

A double standard

The Jewish community in America is shrinking and many Jews have unfortunately assimilated.

A demonstrator wears a shirt reading 'Boycott Israel' [File]

The Fantastic Four Cups of Wine

The Jerusalem Post

Remembering Leonard Nimoy: Behind those pointy ears, a ‘nice, earnest Jewish boy’

This article was originally published in The Jerusalem Post in 1991. In the wake of Leonard Nimoy’s February 27 death, the piece is being republished with the permission of the author.

Leonard Nimoy

Rethinking Judaism: Great leaders take great risks

When the Jewish people have great leadership, times of great uncertainty have become times of opportunity and transformation.

Theodore Herzl 300