Marc Lewitinn, who spend 850 days on a ventilator, struggling with long COVID, died of a heart attack on July 23 at Palisades Medical Center in North Bergen, NJ. He was 76.

Mr. Lewitinn was an ardent supporter of Israel and Jewish causes. He raised money for Ethiopian Jews fleeing their country as refugees, and won praise from the Nazi hunters Simon Wiesenthal and Charles Kremer for helping to persuade the U.S. government to deport Archbishop Valerian Trifa, a Romanian; cleric and fascist collaborator who had moved to the United States after WWII.

In 1995, Mr. Lewitinn sued the Egyptian government to win the release of several Torah scrolls, prayer books and other religious items seized from the country’s Jewish community in the late 1950s.