Ian Black, Middle East editor of the Guardian, author and academic who embodied the journalist’s duty to show fairness to all sides, died Jan. 25, in Jerusalem. He was 69. Jews and Palestinians alike have expressed affection and admiration for a journalist who spent much of his career covering perhaps the most vexing conflict in the world. A presence in the Guardian newsroom, where he held the posts of diplomatic editor, Europe editor, and Middle [...]

Moishe Smith, a past president of B’nai B’rith  and longtime Jewish community leader, died Jan. 18 in Ottawa. He was 72. A stalwart Jewish leader and advocate, he was the youngest-ever president of B’nai B’rith Canada (1989-1991) and the first non-U.S. citizen to be elected president of B’nai B’rith (2007-2009). He also served on the boards of the World Zionist Organization, United Jewish Appeal, the Ottawa Food Bank, Ottawa Tourism, and Restaurants Canada.

James G. Lowenstein, who as one half of a globe-trotting investigative team with Richard M. Moose wrote a series of reports for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the early 1970s that undermined President Richard M. Nixon’s assessment in Viet Nam, died on Jan. 3 at his home in Washington, age 95. President Nixon had won the White House in 1968 with the promise of a “secret plan” to end the war in Vietnam — [...]

Solomon Perel, a German Jew who posed as a member of the Hitler Youth to survive WWII, died at age 97. His story was dramatized in the 1990 film, Europa Europa. Shevah Weiss, who served in the Knesset and as an Israeli ambassador to Poland, died at age 87 in the Holy Land. Fred Terna, an artist who tried to exorcize the psychological trauma of his imprisonment in four Nazi concentration and labor camps with [...]

George Zimbel, a photographer who championed ordinary people, but whose two best-known subjects — Marilyn Monroe and John F. Kennedy — died on Jan. 9 in Montreal. He was 93. Mr. Zimbel captured people living their lives — a sailor reading in his lower bunk on a submarine, a small boy dwarfed by a Great Dane, a little girl playing hopscotch in the street, a baby pulling on a doctor’s stethoscope. In a more famous [...]

Carin Goldberg, a celebrated graphic designer who brought an inventive sensibility to book and album covers, died on Jan. 19 at her home in Stanfordville, NY, in Dutchess County. She was 69. Ms. Goldberg was trained as a painter, but was a scholar of designs and typefaces, which she reimagined in elegant and witty combinations on the covers of thousands of albums and books. She designed for CBS television, also Atlantic Records before starting her [...]

Mira Lehr, a versatile Florida artist who helped found an early cooperative for women artists, and whose paintings, sculptures and installations often reflected her concerns about environmental degradation, died on Jan. 24 in Miami Beach. She was 88. She was adventurous in her artistic explorations. Some of her work used Japanese rice paper. She created mangrove labyrinths out of rope and steel that exhibition visitors could walk through. Some of her more recent works involved [...]

Burt Bacharach, the pop composer, arranger, conductor, record producer, and occasional singer, whose hit songs spoke of romantic optimism, died on Feb.8 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 94. Mr. Bacharach’s collaborated most frequently with the lyricist Hal David. Together they created songs like “The Look of Love,” “This Guy’s in Love With You,” “Close to You,” and the ever-popular “What the World Needs Now Is Love.” In 1962, the team met Dionne [...]