Former Congressman and three-term Mayor of New York Ed Koch passed away today. Koch was quite a character, and lots has been written about the man who rose from his modest beginnings as the son of...
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ShivaWatch: David Rakoff and Marvin Hamlisch
On Thursday night, as midnight approached, the essayist and author David Rakoff passed away in his Manhattan apartment. He had been battling a recurrence of cancer – a pain he thought had been...
Shiva Watch
In order of height, we lost some notable Jewish leaders: Yitzhak Shamir, former four-term Prime Minister of Israel died at age 96. In his 1994 autobiography, he wrote that his epitaph could be:...
Liz Taylor z”l
What? Yeah. Actress Liz Taylor, who recently passed away at age 79, was a yid. She was born a Christian Scientist but converted to Judaism after marrying Jewish film producer Michael Todd (nee Avrom...
Debbie Friedman Passed Away z”l
Debbie Friedman, considered one of the most important figures in contemporary Jewish music, passed away at 5:49 am PST after being hospitalized for Pneumonia. The Orange County Register, reporting...
R.I.P. Max Palevsky
Computer technology pioneer and venture capitalist Max Palevsky, perhaps best-known for funding then-startup chipmaker Intel Corp., has died. He was 85. Read more at the San Francisco Chronicle