Famous jews

Actors, leaders, Holocaust survivors among 18 notable Jews who died in 2025

Despite its grief, the Jewish world also took time to celebrate the lives lived by a constellation of figures who made lasting contributions to film, architecture, politics, and Jewish scholarship.

18 notable Jews who died in 2025.
Odessa A'zion at A24's "Marty Supreme" New York Premiere on Dec. 16, 2025 in New York, New York.

Jewish actress Odessa A’zion pushes back after IDF T-shirt controversy: ‘Not a zio!’

PAUL SIMON performs onstage at the 2021 Global Citizen Live concert at Central Park in New York. ‘I find it hard to believe that your father, a professor of education, would have approved of your recent stance,’ the writer asserts.

Paul Simon shattered my dreams: Support for Barghouti is profoundly dissapointing - opinion

 (Illustrative) TURNING POINT USA executive director Charlie Kirk speaks at US President Donald Trump’s Inauguration Day ceremony at the Capital One Arena in Washington on January 20, 2025.

'A shining light for the American Jewish community': US Jewish leaders, groups grieve Charlie Kirk


How Jews change the world

It comes as no surprise that two Jews, Bourla and Zaks, are spearheading two COVID-19 vaccines to which many may one day soon owe their lives.

British author Norman Lebrecht faces the media holding his Whitbread Book of the Year Award entry, ‘The Song of Names,’ in London in 2003.

Honoring Kurt Rothschild at 100

The president of the World Mizrachi movement is one of the most indefatigable and loyal soldiers the Jewish People has been blessed with over the past century.

KURT ROTHSCHILD

Noa Kirel, Israeli singer and IDF soldier, signs historic deal

The contract signed by the Israeli singer and the American record company is historic in terms of the Israeli music industry.

WATCH: Israeli singer Noa Kirel acts as US soldier in Yes+ promotional video

Idina Menzel, Ilana Glazer and more to lead charity ‘Saturday Night Seder’

The full list includes names such as Idina Menzel, Mayim Bialik, Ben Platt, Ilana Glazer, Josh Groban, Debra Messing, Henry Winkler, Billy Eichner, Andy Cohen, Harvey Fierstein and Michael Solomonov.

Idina Menzel

Orthodox mother of 5 asks Olympic Committee to keep marathon off Shabbat

The marathon is usually scheduled for a Sunday, but was changed for this summer to a Saturday when a venue outside of Tokyo was chosen for the race.

Beatie Deutsch

Former Israel Super League Coach of the Year moves to NY Knicks

David Blatt will take up a role as basketball operations coach with the New York team.

Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv coach David Blatt looks on during the match against Real Madrid in their Euroleague Final Four final basketball game in Milan May 18, 2014.

A famous Jerusalem grandfather: Reb Aryeh Levin

Fifty years after the famed ‘Tzadik of Jerusalem’ passed away, his grandson continues in his ways and perpetuates his ideals.

RABBI BINYAMIN BEINISH LEVENE: Legend in his own right.

Letters to the editor

On the legacy of Isaac Ochberg.

Letters

Why did Larry King don tefillin?

The veteran broadcaster sent a special message to a Chabad rabbi with ALS.

Larry David in tefillin

110 of Albert Einstein's documents newly unveiled for 140th birthday

In honor of the scientist's 140th birthday, Hebrew University revealed newly-acquired pages of equations and private letters.

Einstein's notes on the physics of the atomic bomb and nuclear reactor