Obituaries
Widawski, a younger brother and an uncle were the only members of the family to survive the Nazi extermination of Jews.
“Gloria was iconic,” Ruth Messinger, a former Manhattan borough president, told JNS. “This is a sad day for women.”
The Nobel laureate transformed understanding of the ribosome, advanced the fight against antibiotic resistance and demonstrated the power of persistence.
US President Donald Trump announced that he would lower the American flag nationwide for one week in honor of the star of sound and stage.
Although he won praise for historic moments, like heralding Likud’s victory in 1977, he drew rebuke for a documentary portraying Israel as a brutal occupying power in Gaza, Judea and Samaria.
Barry Levitt, 80, died when a residential balcony collapsed onto an Angel Bakery store in the city’s Rehavia neighborhood.
She helped turn JINSA into the “very significant face of the American Jewish community to the US military,” the JNS publisher said.
“Friends like Lindsey Graham come along once in a generation,” stated William Daroff, CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
Besides Israel, she wrote on topics that ranged from the mentally ill to global warming, to the persecution of small American farmers by the Legal Services Corporation.
The former state attorney spent more than four decades in Israel’s legal system, saying on her retirement that protecting human dignity was her guiding principle.
Along with a group of intellectual activists, she founded Americans For a Safe Israel.
Agam was awarded the Israel Prize for Visual Arts in April.
