Dr. Judith L. Rapoport, a child psychiatrist who brought public awareness to obsessive-compulsive disorder, died on March 7 in Washington D.C. She was 92. The disorder had long remained in the shadows because of the shame that surrounded its symptoms, which could include habits like checking and rechecking that appliances were off, performing counting rituals before doing something as simple as walking through a doorway, or scrubbing hands with soap and water until the [...]
Pedro Friedeberg, a Mexican Jewish artist who was often called “The last Surrealist,” known for his hallucinatory paintings of imaginary cities and for his absurdist furniture designs died on March 5 in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. He was 90. Born in Italy to German Jewish parents, Mr. Friedeberg moved to Mexico with his family as a child and was later hailed as an artistic force in his adopted country. He worked in various mediums, [...]
Nathan Farb, a photographer whose career took him from downtown Manhattan to a city in Siberia and then to the Adirondack Mountains of New York, died on March 26 at his home in Jay, a town in Adirondack Park. He was 85. Mr. Farb did not pick up a camera in a serious way until he was 25, but when he did, he felt an immediate desire to be a photographer. “The camera [...]
Sid Krofft, who with his brother Marty made zany children’s programming, gaining a following among both the young and adult members of the counterculture, died on April 10 in Los Angeles. He was 96. According to The New York Times, Mr. Krofft was “an eccentric visionary, a kids’ show P.T. Barnum who created improbable programming with a combination of creativity and chutzpah.” What tied the shows together was a madcap feel of fantastical creatures, [...]
Mark Mobius, a money manager who made billions as one of the first investors focused on finding financial opportunities in emerging markets, died on April 15 in Singapore. He was 89. In 1987, Mr. Mobius joined the investment banking firm Franklin Templeton, where he soon started one of the first investment funds anywhere dedicated to emerging markets — countries in Asia Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe. Gaining a reputation as the brilliant, [...]
Adriano Goldschmied, the Italian businessman known as “the godfather of denim” for his role in developing versions of the world’s most popular fabric, died on April 5 in Castelfranco Veneto, a town near his home in Asolo, Italy. He was 82. On any given day, marketers say, nearly half the world’s population is wearing jeans. Last year, more than $98 billion worth of jeans were sold worldwide, and if you wear jeans, you own [...]
Jack Schlossberg, grandson of former President John F. Kennedy, is a leading Democratic contender for an open US. House seat, representing part of New York City.
Eli Savit, a progressive county prosecutor, won the Michigan Democratic Party’s nomination for attorney general at a recent convention.
Jewish Cemetery Preserved by Christians and Jews Newport, Rhode Island, had once been home to a thriving Colonial Jewish community — also the home of Touro Synagogue, the nation’s oldest surviving Jewish house of worship. But after the Revolutionary War and the city’s economic decline, that community largely faded. Yet the cemetery and the synagogue building remained. The Jewish burial ground dated to 1677. In 1822, Abraham Touro left money for the upkeep of [...]
The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück, Lynne Olson The true story of how an intrepid band of Frenchwomen resisted the Nazis in Hitler’s all-female concentration camp. They risked death for any infraction, but that did not stop them from defying the SS at every turn. A Fool’s Kabbalah, Steve Stern In the ruins of postwar Europe, the world’s leading expert on the Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism goes on a hair-raising journey to recover sacred books stolen [...]
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