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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 342

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James Earl Jones accepts the special Tony award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre at the 71st annual Tony Awards, June 11, 2017, in New York. (Michael Zorn/Invision/AP, File)
September 10, 2024, 8:53 am
Award-winning actor James Earl Jones, voice of Darth Vader, Mufasa, dies at 93
Jones won two Emmys, a Golden Globe, two Tony Awards, a Grammy, the National Medal of Arts and the Kennedy Center Honors as well as an honorary Oscar
By Mark Kennedy
Screenshot of Eliyahu Rips speaking to a Czechoslovakian news channel on January 19, 2019. (Ivysilani, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 31, 2024, 11:29 am
Eliyahu Rips, mathematician who claimed to find hidden code in Bible, dies at 75
Born in Latvia to Holocaust survivors in 1948, Rips moved to Israel in 1972; his research led to Michael Drosnin’s debunked bestseller ‘The Bible Code’
By ToI Staff
Democratic Rep. Bill Pascrell of New Jersey stumps for then-US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (not pictured) at the at Passaic County Community College in Paterson, New Jersey, on May 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
August 22, 2024, 9:05 am
Bill Pascrell, NJ congressman who played balancing act on Israel, dies at 87
Democrat, whose district included ‘Little Ramallah,’ had weathered pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian primary challengers in his 14 terms: ‘I’ve tried to get the communities together’
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Brazilian television magnate and TV host Silvio Santos waves on 30 August, 2001, after being held hostage for seven hours in his home in Sao Paulo. (MAURICIO LIMA / AFP)
August 19, 2024, 4:10 pm
Brazilian Jewish entertainment legend Silvio Santos dies at 93
Santos owned the television network SBT and created several variety shows, becoming an icon in Brazil with a decades-long career
By DÉBORA ÁLVARES
Martin Indyk, former US ambassador to Israel, pictured in 2009. (Photo: Ariel Jerozolimski)
July 26, 2024, 3:50 am
Martin Indyk, blunt diplomat who kept trying for Israeli-Palestinian peace
Tireless two-time envoy to Israel was still excoriating Netanyahu last month; may be only US diplomat to have endured public anti-Jewish slurs from both Israeli and Arab officials
By Ron Kampeas
Former US ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk on June 16, 2009 (Ariel Jerozolimski)
July 25, 2024, 11:00 pm
Former US ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk dies at age 73
Israeli and American leaders eulogize veteran diplomat who dedicated his life to Middle East policy, serving as key figure in Oslo Accords, Obama’s effort to revive peace process
By ToI Staff
Los Angeles Sparks head coach Joe Bryant smiles at a referee during the second half of a WNBA basketball game against the Chicago Sky in Los Angeles, September 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Lori Shepler)
July 19, 2024, 2:45 am
Kobe Bryant’s late father Joe once coached a Jewish day school’s girls basketball team
Philadelphia legend ‘Jellybean’ Bryant, who died Monday at 69, is famous for his sporting achievements and fathering an NBA great, but Akiba students knew him as a beloved coach
By Rob Charry
Peter Buxtun, a former employee of the US Public Health Service, who became known as the whistleblower responsible for ending the Tuskegee syphilis experiment. (Courtesy Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics)
July 18, 2024, 10:34 am
Peter Buxtun, who blew whistle on cruel US medical study on Black men, dies at 86
Born to a Jewish father, Buxtun was reminded of Nazi medical experiments when he heard US health officials withheld treatment from hundreds of syphilis patients to study effects
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Richard Simmons speaks to the audience before the start of a summer salad fashion show at Grand Central Terminal in New York on June 2, 2006. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg, File)
July 14, 2024, 5:26 pm
Fitness and weight loss icon Richard Simmons dies at 76
Born to a Russian-Jewish mother, Simmons helped people lose weight through his silly public persona and exercise videos after having struggled with being overweight earlier in life
By Mark Kennedy
A still of Dr. Ruth Westheimer speaking with WNYC from the film 'Ask Dr. Ruth.' (Courtesy of Sundance Institute/David Paul Jacobson)
July 13, 2024, 6:19 pm
World famous Jewish sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer dies at 96
Talk show host, who became a cultural icon decades after surviving Holocaust and fighting for Israel’s independence, was fond of citing her grandkids to say ‘Hitler lost and I won’
By Amy Spiro
Actor Donald Sutherland appears at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Oct. 13, 2017. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
June 21, 2024, 6:40 am
Donald Sutherland, towering actor from ‘M.A.S.H.’ and ‘Hunger Games,’ dies at 88
Tall and gaunt Sutherland was known for offbeat characters like Hawkeye Pierce in ‘M.A.S.H.,’ the hippie tank commander in ‘Kelly’s Heroes,’ and stoned professor in ‘Animal House’
By Jake Coyle
Heather Conn Hendel in a video published March 27, 2017, for an annual dinner of the Manhattan Jewish Experience Synagogue in which she was honored for her volunteer work. (Screen capture: Youtube/Mark Wildes MJE, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
June 15, 2024, 1:03 pm
Heather Conn Hendel, pillar of Toronto, NYC Jewish communities, dies at 48
Beloved teacher, matchmaker, and ‘Bikur Holim’ volunteer passes away months into marriage, shortly after giving birth to daughter
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Morrie Markoff in 2023. (Courtesy The Brain Donor Project via JTA)
June 12, 2024, 7:57 am
Morrie Markoff, Jewish supercentenarian and oldest man in US, dies at 110
Markoff became an avid blogger and author after turning 100; leaves exceptionally lucid brain to science; wife Betty died in 2019 after 81 years of marriage
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Former prime minister Yitzhak Shamir (L) with fellow members of the Likud party David Levy (C) and Ariel Sharon at a Likud party meeting in 1986. (Moshe Shai/ FLASH90)
June 2, 2024, 8:09 pm
David Levy, who mainstreamed Mizrahi involvement in politics, dies at 86
Likud politician was for decades Israel’s leading Mizrahi political figure, rising to deputy PM and three-time foreign minister, but faded after primary loss to Netanyahu in 1993
By Charlie Summers
Richard Sherman speaks at the ceremony honoring the Sherman Brothers with the rename of Disney Studios Soundstage A at the World Premiere of Disney's "Christopher Robin" at the Walt Disney Studios, July 30, 2018, in Burbank, California. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP)
May 26, 2024, 5:31 am
Richard Sherman, composer of Disney’s ‘Mary Poppins,’ ‘It’s a Small World,’ dies at 95
Along with his brother Robert, pair breathed life into decades of children’s classics such as ‘The Jungle Book’ and ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’ with catchy, award-winning tunes
By Mark Kennedy
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