Rabbi Haim Druckman, a prominent spiritual leader of Israel’s Religious Zionist movement, lifelong educator, founder of the Jewish settlement project, and politician, died here in Jerusalem on Dec. 25. He was 90. In awarding him the Israel Prize in 2012, the country’s most prestigious civilian honor, the judges cited the significant contribution he had made in bringing together disparate factions of the Jewish people. He recounted that his life had been saved three times: Once [...]

Ronald Feldman, who for nearly 50 years oversaw one of New York’s most consistently political, forward-looking art galleries, died on Dec. 20 at his home in Chappaqua, NY. He was 84. Trained as a lawyer and deeply interested in politics, Mr. Feldman, at his Ronald Feldman Gallery in SoHo, exhibited artists who pushed boundaries with work that almost always had a political slant, including themes focused on women’s rights, the environment, totalitarianism, identity and war. [...]

Henry Grossman, a photographer who was best known for his formal portraits of celebrities and public figures, and who also immortalized the Beatles in thousands of unscripted antics, died on Nov. 27 in Englewood, NY. He was 86. Mr. Grossman produced portraits of Eleanor Roosevelt, Richard M. Nixon, Elizabeth Taylor, Martha Graham, Leontyne Price, Leonard Bernstein and Nelson Mandela. His archive of Beatles photos, includes intimate moments at home, at private parties, and during overnight [...]

Dick Savitt, the tennis Hall of Famer, who won the men’s singles championships at the 1951 Australian and Wimbledon Grand Slam tournaments, died on Jan. 6 at his home in Manhattan. He was 93. Savitt became the second American to win both the Australian and Wimbledon’s men’s major titles in a calendar year. Don Budge had accomplished the feat in 1938. Only Jimmy Connors (1974) and Pete Sampras (1994 and 1997) have matched them. Savitt [...]

Orthodox Jews attend the funeral of Rabbi Shimon Baadani at a cemetery in Bnei Brak, Israel, on Jan. 11. Rabbi Baadani, who was 94, was the president of the Shas party’s “Council of Torah Sages,” a group of rabbis that provides spiritual guidance and sets policies for the ultra-Orthodox party’s political leadership.       AP/Oded Balilty

Owen Roizman, a cinematographer who shot many of the premier films of a generation, has died. He was 86. [No further details of his death are available at this time.] He was nominated for an Oscar five times — for “The French Connection,” “The Exorcist,” “Network,” “Tootsie,” and “Wyatt Earp.” In 2017, he was honored with an honorary Academy Award for his contributions to the medium. In addition to his Oscar nominations, Roizman was nominated [...]

Naomi Replansky, a self-taught American poet, whose work portrayed a world of labor, oppression and struggle, died on Jan. 7 at her home in Manhattan. She was 104. She wrote of subjects seemingly unfit for poetry, in plainspoken language and songlike cadences. “Poetry for me,” she told the Jewish feminist journal Bridges in 2002, “is a way of mastering the world.”

Adolfo Kaminsky’s talent for forging realistic documents helped children, their parents and others escape deportation to concentration camps during WWII. His expertise enabled him to erase Jewish-sounding names like Abraham or Isaac from ID and food ration cards, and substitute gentile-sounding names. He died Jan. 9 at his home in Paris. He was 97. He continued to forge documents for three decades after the war, aiding insurgents in British-mandate Palestine, French Algeria, South Africa and [...]

Bernard Kalb, a veteran correspondent for CBS, NBC and The New York Times, died on Jan. 8 at his home in North Bethesda, MD. He was 100. He reported for The Times from 1946 to 1962, for CBS during the next 18 years, and as NBC’s State Department correspondent from 1980 to 1985. Then, for nearly two years, he served in the Reagan administration’s State Department. Mr. Kalb accompanied President Richard M. Nixon on the [...]

Norm Fruchter, a civil rights activist, documentarian and novelist who devoted his career to seeing that all students receive a sound basic education regardless of their race, ethnicity, class or income, died on Jan. 4 in Brooklyn. He was 85. Mr. Fruchter, as lifelong educator, helped secure approval to start Independence High School in Newark in 1970.. The school, intended for struggling students, became a prototype for alternative secondary schools across the country.