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Posted inObituaries

Journalism pioneer Joan Bieder, 83, a mentor and champion for students

Alix Wall by Alix Wall November 3, 2025November 3, 2025

Athens-based journalist Phoebe Fronista has trouble putting into words just how much she learned from Joan Bieder as a student a dozen years ago at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of […]

Leonard Cohen performs
Posted inThe Matzo Chronicles

I am suddenly obsessing over ages in obituaries

Karen Galatz by Karen Galatz August 20, 2025August 20, 2025
Barbara Rosenberg with President Ronald Reagan. (Photo/Courtesy Michael Rosenberg)
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Philanthropist Barbara Rosenberg, a ‘force of nature,’ dies at 91 

by Sue Fishkoff May 9, 2024May 9, 2024
Amy Ettinger, shown with her husband Dan White, wrote about ice cream, mah-jongg and her mother's kugel recipe. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Dan White via X)
Posted inObituaries

Amy Ettinger, Santa Cruz writer who penned life-affirming essays on dying, succumbs to cancer at 49

by Andrew Silow-Carroll April 9, 2024
Former Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT) speaks at a panel hosted by the National Council of Resistance of Iran – U.S. Representative Office, August 17, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Photo/JTA-Anna Moneymaker-Getty Images)
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Joseph Lieberman, centrist senator and first Jew on a major presidential ticket, dies at 82

by Ron Kampeas March 27, 2024March 27, 2024
Singer and actor Harry Belafonte in a recording studio, circa 1957. (Photo/JTA-Hulton Archive-Getty Images)
Posted inObituaries

Harry Belafonte, singer and civil rights activist who popularized ‘Hava Nagila’ in the US, dies at 96

by Lisa Keys and JTA April 26, 2023April 26, 2023
Bill Goldman
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Popular professor Bill Goldman, grandson of Bay Area philanthropists, dies in plane crash

by Rob Gloster July 16, 2017July 16, 2017
Gerson Bakar
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Gerson Bakar, philanthropist and developer, dies at 89

by Dan Pine June 13, 2017June 14, 2017
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Posted inJewish Life

Deaths for the week of Feb. 24, 2017

by J. Staff February 22, 2017February 27, 2018
lit yahrzeit candles
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Deaths for the week of Feb. 17, 2017

by J. Staff February 15, 2017February 27, 2018

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