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A photo provided by Richard Freeda shows Leonard Tow, an early business leader in cable TV, in 2021. He died on Aug. 10, 2025, at his home in New Canaan, Conn. He was 97. (Richard Freeda via The New York Times/Courtesy)

Leonard Tow, Cable TV Magnate and a Major Philanthropist, Dies at 97

August 18, 2025 at 1:51 p.m.

Tow, a veteran of the Wild West years in cable TV, who went on to make significant philanthropic contributions to higher education, hospitals, the arts and criminal justice reform in...

Anna Brunn in an undated photo provided by Paul & Anna Ornstein, via United States Holocaust Museum. (Paul & Anna Ornstein, via United States Holocaust Museum via The New York Times/Courtesy)

Anna Ornstein, psychoanalyst who survived the Holocaust, dies at 98

July 16, 2025 at 10:30 a.m.

Ornstein, who was born in Hungary and in the 1950s immigrated to the United States, where she became a leading exponent of a school known as self-psychology, died July 2...

From left: actress Carol Channing, lyricist and playwright Adolph Green, and Robert Abrams, the Manhattan borough president, during a rally on behalf of soviet dancer Valery Panov in New York, March 12, 1973. Valery Panov, a star of the renowned Kirov Ballet, who was fired when he sought to leave the Soviet Union in 1972 and whose two-year harassment by Soviet officials made him an international cause célèbre before he and his wife, a ballerina, finally won exit visas to Israel, died on June 3, 2025. He was 87. (Paul Hosefros/The New York Times/Courtesy)

Valery Panov, ballet star who fought to leave the USSR, dies at 87

July 7, 2025 at 2:41 p.m.

The struggle of Panov, who was half Jewish, to leave the Soviet Union was taken up by Western political leaders and arts celebrities, and it served to dramatize the plight...

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