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Inspiring Jews who died in 5779 JTA Staff
October 28
(JTA)—The close of every year brings with it bittersweet reminders of the incredible figures we lost in the year that was. This year the task of remembering the departed is particularly fraught as 12 people on the list were lost to acts of anti-Jewish violence in U.S. synagogues. Along with the shooting victims in Pittsburgh and Poway, California, are artists, activists, and ordinary folks who heroically answered the call of history. Here are some whose stories inspired us the most. Pittsburgh victims n Oct. 27, 2018, a gunman entered the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and opened fire while shouting Dmitry Brant a n t i - S e m i t i c Memorials for the victims of the Tree of Life synagogue slogans. The shooting in Pittsburgh, Pa., October 31, 2018. shooting would become the deadliest act of terrorism against American Jews in the country’s history. Eleven worshippers were killed that morning, ranging in age from 54 to 97. Among the dead were a married couple, Bernice and Sylvan Simon, and two brothers, David and Cecil Rosenthal, along with Daniel Stein, Jerry Rabinowitz, Richard Gottfried, Joyce Fienberg, Rose Mallinger, Melvin Wax, and Irving Younger.
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Herman Wouk When Time put Herman Wouk on its cover in 1955, it found the Orthodox novelist’s blend of literary achievement and religious practice to be paradoxical. But over the course of his nearly seven-decade career, Wouk would help usher Judaism into the American mainstream through more than two dozen novels and works of nonfiction, several of which were adapted for the screen. He died on May 17 at the age of 103.
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Peggy Lipton ctress Peggy Lipton was descended from Russian-Jewish immigrants and raised in a heavily Jewish enclave on Long Island, New York, but she became the quintessential American flower child as the star of the crime drama The Mod Squad. In 1974, she married the legendary music producer Quincy Jones, with whom she had two daughters. She died of cancer in May at 72.
Herman Wouk, Palm Springs 2014.
Amos Oz, 2005.
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Publicity photo of Peggy Lipton from the television program The Mod Squad, c. 1971.
Lori Gilbert-Kaye hen a gunman burst into the Chabad of Poway synagogue in April, Lori Gilbert-Kaye reportedly leapt in front of the rabbi to shield him from the bullets. Gilbert-Kaye, 60, was the only fatality in the attack on the San Diego-area congregation. Remembered as a pillar of the community and a regular hostess of Shabbat meals filled with guests, Gilbert-Kaye was survived by her husband, Dr. Howard Kaye, and their daughter, Hannah.
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Yechiel Eckstein istory will remember Yechiel Eckstein as the man who raised hundreds of millions of dollars, mostly from Christians, to benefit needy Jews in Israel and beyond. But to thousands of Jews in conflict zones who he helped FellowshipCam bring to Israel, Eckstein was someRabbi Yechiel Eckstein, thing of a guardian angel. Eckstein September 2008 founded the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews in 1983, and through a combination of pluck, charisma, and tireless legwork made unprecedented progress in raising money for Jewish causes from evangelicals. In February, he died of heart failure in Jerusalem at 67.
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Amos Oz mos Oz won virtually every literary prize short of the Nobel and was perhaps Israel’s most widely translated
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author. He was also among its most vocal peace activists, calling Israel’s withdrawal from the Palestinian territories a “moral imperative” and helping to found Peace Now in 1978. In novels like My Michael, Black Box, Where the Jackals Howl, and his 2002 autobiographical A Tale of Love and Darkness—later made into a film by and starring Natalie Portman—Oz chronicled the emotional development of his young country. He died of cancer in December at the age of 79.