Obituaries
National News
- For Madoff’s Victims, Here’s a Guide to the Complex World of Legal Restitution
- In the Courtroom: Torment and Dante’s Hell
- Once Labeled An AIPAC Spy, Larry Franklin Tells His Story
Community News
- A ‘Jewish Missionary’ Takes On Hunger
- Judge: Kosher Company Illegally Coerced Workers Before Union Election
- Survivors’ Hopes Dashed as NY Assembly Adjourns Without Sex Abuse Vote
International News
- Franz Molnar’s Heirs Fight Over His Bank Account, And Their Identity
- Harmony Silenced at Egyptian Music Fest
- Prague Conference May Be Last Chance To Settle Holocaust Property Claims
Israel News
- Growing Gulf Between U.S. And Israeli Jews on Obama
- Some See Extended Olive Branch For Israel In Ross Appointment to NSC
- Why Defining ‘Natural Growth’ Is So Confusing, On Purpose
Arts & Culture
- From the Kol Israel Orchestra to a Pygmy Choir
- A Climb, a Crime and a Debut Novel
- Allowing the Yetzer Tov To Win
- Man’s (Comedic) Search for Meaning
- What do the Egg, the Swan and the Ant Have in Common?
- ‘Settling’ the Score
Fast Forward
- Forget the Game... How’s the Grub?
- Art Pop Indie Rock Meets Midrash
- Pioneer Songs, Revisited
- Camp in the Catskills: A Summer Tradition
- Moroccan Tradition
- Swine of the Times
The Shmooze
- Not ‘Far’ From Her Roots
- Historic Breakaway
- Disney Channel Goes Hebrew
- Shimon Peres, Songwriter?
- Surf’s Up
- Urban Kibbutz Puts Down Roots
Forward Forum
- In Iran Elections, Hezbollah Loses — Will Israel Too?
- Gilad Shalit’s Plight, and Israel’s Dilemma
- A Fourth of Jew-ly Celebration
- Sharansky Inherits a House Divided
- Actions Speak Louder Than (Even Ugly) Words
- Jewish Peoplehood Denied, While Israel’s Foes Applaud
Editorial
Si Frumkin, 78, Soviet Jewry Activist
By JTA
Leading Soviet Jewry and human rights activist Si Frumkin has died. Frumkin, who founded the Southern California Council for Soviet Jews in 1968 and helped make it a mainstream American cause, died May 15 after battling cancer. He was 78.Read More
Wolpe’s Greatest Lessons as a Rabbi and Teacher Were Meant To Be Heard
By Stephen Fried
Joseph Sherman, 65, Yiddish Scholar and Translator
By Lana Gersten
Joseph Sherman, a scholar and translator of Yiddish literature who is best known for Translating Isaac Bashevis Singer’s novel “Shadows on the Hudson,” died March 20. He was 65. The cause of death was complications from pancreatitis.Read More
William Davidson, 86, Philanthropist and Pistons Owner
By Lana Gersten
William Davidson, a businessman and Jewish philanthropist for whom the Jewish Theological Seminary’s graduate school of education is named, died Friday, March 13.Read More
William Davidson, 86, Philanthropist and Owner of Detroit Pistons, Dies
By Lana Gersten
William Davidson, a businessman and Jewish philanthropist for whom the Jewish Theological Seminary’s graduate school of education is named, died on Friday, March 13.Read More
- Henry Tylbor, 79, Child Survivor of Ghetto Uprising
- Ralph Kaplowitz, 89, Original Member of the Knicks
- Helen Suzman's Fight To 'Put Things Right'
- Helen Suzman: Jew to the World, Not Always at Home
- Rabbi Arnold Wolf, 84, Was Progressive Leader
- Cool and Dashing, Paul Newman Was a New Kind of Jewish Star
- Writer-Editor Ted Solotaroff, Literary Democrat
- June Walker, 74, Chaired Presidents Conference
- Bruce Adler, 63, Star of Broadway and Second Avenue
- Goodbye to ‘Little Miss Sparkle’
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