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


New photos emerge of Jewish convert Jenna Jameson's baby

Batel Lu Bitton was born on April 8, her name means "daughter of god" in Hebrew.

Jenna Jameson poses at movie premier

Last words with God: Leonard Cohen’s paradox

A mourner sits by the steps of the home owned by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen in Montreal on November 11

Esther Herlitz, who broke the glass ceiling many times over, dies at 94

Israel’s first female ambassador also served as MK, adviser to Golda Meir, fighter in the Hagana and chairwoman of the International Harp Contest.

Esther Herlitz

'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' Rachel Bloom talks Hollywood fame and Jewish humor

JTA spoke to Bloom about that memorable song, becoming a critical darling, Jewish identity and more.

'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' star Rachel Bloom

Shultz to Post: The lesson of the Soviet Jewry struggle is ‘never give up’

Limmud FSU founder presents former secretary of state with historic photograph

CHAIM CHESLER, the founder and chairman of Limmud FSU, and ‘Jerusalem Post’ editor-in-chief Steve Linde present George Shultz on Monday with a historic photograph of a 1987 meeting he had in Jerusalem as secretary of state with former Soviet refuseniks organized by Chesler, then the secretary-genera

Tu Bishvat 2016: Happy New Year... if you’re a tree!

No religion has closer ties to agriculture and ecology than Judaism.

Tu Bishvat in Tzova.

George Weidenfeld, publishing giant, dead at 96

Weidenfeld was actively engaged in many charitable activities in England, Israel and other parts of the world, and did not limit his goodwill and largesse to Jewish causes alone.

GEORGE WEIDENFELD

Facebook official Sheryl Sandberg donates $31 million of company stock

The majority of the money will go to women’s empowerment groups and Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg’s nonprofit supporting women in the workplace.

Sheryl Sandberg

European Jewish Congress to hold election almost a year early

“I am not aware of any discontent with Moshe Kantor, and do not feel any myself, as he has been a strong leader.”

MOSHE KANTOR (right) is presented with the National Order of the Legion of Honor by France’s President François Hollande.

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