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Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA)
Richard Lewis and Larry David in an episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm." (HBO)
February 29, 2024, 10:40 am
Comedian Richard Lewis, dark prince of Jewish neurosis, dies at 76
'He had that rare combination of being the funniest person and also the sweetest. But today he made me sob and for that I’ll never forgive him,' Larry David said following the death of Lewis.
By Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA)
Left: Bill Pinkney and his former wife, Chicago food celebrity Ina Pinkney. (Courtesy of Ina Pinkney). Right: Capt. Bill Pinkney speaking in New Haven, Connecticut. (©2021 Captain Bill Pinkney)
September 7, 2023, 1:02 pm
Jewish sailor Bill Pinkney, first African American to circle the globe solo, dies at 87
The Chicago sailor who converted to Judaism to honour his second wife, embarked on his 22-month, 27,000-mile journey aboard a 47-foot boat in 1990
By Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA)
U.S. President Bill Clinton, center, lights the eternal flame at the dedication of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum with help from Memorial Council chairman Harvey Meyerhoff, left, and founding chairman Elie Wiesel, April 22, 1993. (Renaud Giroux/AFP via Getty Images)
August 8, 2023, 10:08 am
Harvey Meyerhoff, chair of U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum at its founding, dies at 96
Meyerhoff raised the £117 million in private funds that built the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
By Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA)
Louise Levy was born in 1910 and grew up in Cleveland and New York City; Levy often ascribed her longevity to a daily glass of red wine and a low-cholesterol diet. (Photos courtesy Levy family, via Fox Funeral Home, via JTA)
July 29, 2023, 10:00 am
‘Supercentenarian’ subject of longevity study among Ashkenazi Jews, dies at 112
“Throughout her long life, which spanned two global pandemics, she remained a lady in every sense of the word,” her family wrote in an obituary.
By Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA)
Private First Class Richard Barancik joined the "Monuments Men" in 1945; after the war, he became a prolific architect in Chicago. (Monuments Men and Women Foundation; Dignity Memorial)
July 26, 2023, 9:27 am
Richard Barancik, last of the ‘Monuments Men’ who recovered art and treasure looted by the Nazis, dies at 98
Richard and a fellow soldier assisted in moving stolen art treasures to the central repository of the U.S. Property Control Branch and served as guards.
By Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA)
The Nuremberg trials, where the term ‘genocide’ was first heard
April 9, 2023, 3:59 pm
Benjamin Ferencz, the last surviving prosecutor of Nazis at Nuremberg, dies at 103
Ferencz was 27 and a graduate of Harvard Law School when he was named as the chief prosecutor at the Einsatzgruppen Trial at the Nuremberg trials.
By Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA)
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