Brigitte Bardot, 1960s French sex symbol turned militant animal rights activist, dies at 91
Brigitte Bardot, the French 1960s sex symbol who became one of the greatest screen sirens...
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Norman Podhoretz, contentious and influential neo-conservative, has died
Norman Podhoretz, 95, was among the last of the so-called “New York intellectuals” of the...
Rabbi Eliezer Diamond, beloved Jewish Theological Seminary professor and author, dies at 73
As news of his death spread on Dec. 12, many of Diamond’s former students and...
Helen Nash, kosher cookbook author and NYC philanthropist, dies at 89
Her first cookbook “Kosher Cuisine,” was published in 1984 by Random House, and adapted a...
‘General Hospital’ star Anthony Geary of Luke and Laura fame dies at 78
Anthony Geary, who rose to fame in the 1970s and ’80s as half the daytime...
Rob Reiner, son of a comedy giant who became one in turn, dies at 78
Rob Reiner, the son of a comedy giant who went on to become one himself,...
Sophie Kinsella, author of the millions-selling ‘Shopaholic’ novels, dies at 55
Sophie Kinsella, the author of “Confessions of a Shopaholic” and a series of millions-selling rom-com...
Iain Douglas-Hamilton, British zoologist and Save the Elephants founder, dies at 83
Iain Douglas-Hamilton, a British-born zoologist and conservationist who dedicated much of his life to protecting...
Raul Malo, the soulful tenor and frontman of The Mavericks, has died at age 60
Raul Malo, the soulful tenor and frontman of the Grammy-winning band The Mavericks, had disclosed...
Carrie Soloway, inspiration for trailblazing trans Jewish protagonist of ‘Transparent,’ dies at 88
“Transparent” followed the lives of the Pfeffermans, a Jewish family in Los Angeles, whose world...
Mark Mellman, pollster who championed Democrats and Israel, dies at 70
Mellman made himself accessible to Jewish groups, frequently appearing at events organized by the Jewish...
Longtime Sun Sentinel photographer ‘Lauderdale Lou’ Toman dies at 90
For more than 50 years, Lou Toman took pictures of "everything," from Muhammad Ali and...
Rabbi Alvin Kass, longest-serving NYPD chaplain famed for 9/11 response, dies at 89
He was the longest-serving chaplain in the New York Police Department, with a career that...
Florida historian Jim Clark, UCF lecturer and Orlando journalist, has died
Writer who concentrated on Florida history books and UCF courses was also political commentator and...
Jackie Ferrara, artist who brought mystery to minimalism, dies at 95
Born Jacqueline Hirschhorn to Jewish parents in Detroit, Ferrara had an unconventional entrance into art.
Susan Stamberg, iconic Jewish ‘founding mother’ of NPR, dies at 87
As one of NPR’s “founding mothers” in the 1970s, she helped shape the network’s personality:...
Zabar’s devoted fans mourn Saul Zabar, who transformed his family’s Jewish grocery into an NYC institution
Saul Zabar led his family’s famed grocery store for over seven decades and helped make...
Aron Bell, Palm Beach Holocaust survivor whose famed brigade saved 1,200 Jews, dies at 98
A decades-long resident of Palm Beach, Florida, Bell also frequently spoke to schoolchildren about his...
George Hardy, Tuskegee Airman who fought in three wars, dies at 100
George Hardy, 100, was one of the last surviving combat veterans of the Tuskegee Airmen,...
Robert Jay Lifton, pioneering scholar of Nazi doctors and Jewish memory, dies at 99
Lifton’s writings bridged psychiatry, history and Jewish thought. He investigated how survivors of Hiroshima, Vietnam...
Polly Holliday, theater star famous as the tart waitress Flo on sitcom ‘Alice,’ dies at 88
Polly Holliday, who turned the catchphrase “Kiss my grits!” into a national retort as Flo...
David Schaecter, Holocaust survivor who founded Miami Beach memorial and led survivors’ advocacy group, dies at 96
His foundation, created in 2000, often took a more aggressive stance than other Jewish organizations...
Bruce Slovin, who unified Jewish archives in New York, dies at 89
He was a corporate executive who united five organizations devoted to various aspects of the...
Terence Stamp, British actor who portrayed General Zod in early Superman films, dies at 87
Stamp’s six decades in the business were peppered with highlights, including his touching portrayal of...
Leonard Tow, Cable TV Magnate and a Major Philanthropist, Dies at 97
Tow, a veteran of the Wild West years in cable TV, who went on to...
Tom Lehrer, satirist who sang about ‘Hanukkah in Santa Monica,’ dies at 97
“(I’m Spending) Hanukkah in Santa Monica” debuted in 1990, well after Lehrer’s peak as a...
Birmingham gives an emotional farewell to Ozzy Osbourne as tearful family lead tributes
Thousands of Black Sabbath fans will pay their respects Wednesday to frontman Ozzy Osbourne as...
Alan Bergman, Oscar-winning lyricist and ‘father figure’ to Barbra Streisand, dies at 99
Oscar-winning lyricist Alan Bergman, who with his wife Marilyn wrote the words for some of...
Rabbi Neil Danzig, scholar who unlocked mysteries of the Talmud, dies at 74
Rabbi Neil Danzig, a longtime professor of rabbinics at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New...
Tom Lehrer, song satirist and mathematician, dies at 97
Tom Lehrer, the popular song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War,...
Jazz legend Chuck Mangione, known for ‘Feels So Good,’ dies at 84
Two-time Grammy Award-winning musician Chuck Mangione, who achieved international success in 1977 with his jazz-flavored...
Hulk Hogan, icon in professional wrestling, dies at age 71
Hulk Hogan, the mustachioed, headscarf-wearing icon in the world of professional wrestling, has died at...
Florida police and WWE say pro wrestling icon Hulk Hogan has died at 71
CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — Florida police and WWE say pro wrestling icon Hulk Hogan has...
Connie Francis, a Parkland resident, recorded an album of Jewish songs in 1960
Francis was among the first people honored with a star on the Fort Lauderdale Walk...
Prominent Miami defense attorney Roy Black dies, won acquittal for William Kennedy Smith in rape trial
Roy Black, a New York native who moved to South Florida for his studies as...
Don Soffer, who sketched an idea for Aventura on a napkin, dies at 92
Real estate mogul Don Soffer, developer of Aventura Mall and the city’s “godfather,” died Sunday...
D-Day veteran and TikTok star ‘Papa Jake’ Larson dies at 102
D-Day veteran ″Papa Jake″ Larson, who survived German gunfire on Normandy’s bluffs in 1944 and...
‘An amazing human being’: Fort Lauderdale icon, unlikely TikTok star Connie Francis remembered
The singer who helped put Fort Lauderdale on the map with Spring Break film 'Where...
Connie Francis, whose film ‘Where the Boys Are’ launched Fort Lauderdale’s Spring Break golden era, dies at 87
Connie Francis, the wholesome pop star of the Fort Lauderdale-based Spring Break movie sensation "Where...
S. Daniel Abraham, Slim-Fast creator and founder of Palm Beach synagogue, dies at 100
“The obituaries will call him ‘billionaire founder of SlimFast.’ But we, first congregants of the...