death

Bar Sagi at 14

Bar Sagi: The late Israeli teen poet who died of bone cancer

During her last years, Bar Sagi wrote 25 poems documenting her journey, her illness, and her remarkable life force. This collection was published posthumously as See Me Soar and Spread My Wings.

'Our Names Do Not Appear': Struggles with grief without closure

Although this is a memoir, one needs to be prepared for flights of imagination that were part of her hopes that never materialized.

(Courtesy Steve North)

Rabbi Albert Thaler, founding director of Ramah Nyack day camp, dies at 91

Rabbi Thaler, who ran the camp until 1997 and also served for 37 years as rabbi of Temple Gates of Prayer in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens, died April 18. He was 91.

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA
23/04/2024

'Kaddish Around the World': Stories of Jewish mourners struggling to pray

The book describes the supreme efforts of mourners to find a minyan, a prayer quorum of 10 men, in many countries and in the most unlikely places for the recitation of the Mourner’s Kaddish

By ATARA BECK
14/04/2024

How do you say farewell to a scientific giant like Daniel Kahneman?

Thanks to Kahneman, hospital systems and HMOs now offer generic drugs to physicians as the first choice, knowing how powerful the status quo bias is.

By TALYA MIRON-SHATZ
04/04/2024

Soldier from Modi’in killed in RPG attack in southern Gaza

A Gazan terrorist fired an RPG toward a floor in the building where Kudriashov and the rest of the Egoz force were staying, in the al-Amal neighborhood in western Khan Yunis.

Hostage Uriel Baruch killed, body held captive in Gaza

Baruch leaves behind his wife and two children, as well as his parents and siblings. He was kidnapped from the area near the Nova music festival on October 7.

Ben Stern, Holocaust survivor who stood up to neo-Nazis in Skokie, dies at 102

Stern's life story featured in the documentary film “Near Normal Man” and in his 2022 memoir, “Near Normal Man: Survival with Courage, Kindness and Hope.”

By ALIX WALL/JTA
06/03/2024

Jewish, British banker Jacob Rothschild dies aged 87

The Rothschild banking family traces its roots back to 18th century Frankfurt, from where different family members moved to cities across Europe to build out banking businesses.

26/02/2024

Death and life in the Land of Israel

Is it not cruel that even the greatest of people are destined to die, that we only exist for the tiniest slice of history?

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