Susan Wojcicki, who helped turn Google from a start-up in her garage into an Internet juggernaut, and who became one of Silicon Valley’s  most prominent female executives with her leadership of YouTube, died on August 9. She was 56. Ms. Wojcicki’s more than two decades with Google began in 1998 in her house in Menlo Park, CA, part of which she rented to her friends Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the company’s founders. For $1,700 [...]

Queenie Hallegua, the last of the Paradesi (foreign) Jewish women in Kochi, India, died on August 11. She was 89. Her funeral was held at the Jewish cemetery near the 456-year-old Paradesi Synagogue. Her death leaves her nephew, Keith Hallegua, as the last surviving Jew in Kochi. Queenie was the daughter of Satto Koder. She married into the Hallegua family of what is known as Jew Town. Her grandfather, Shabdai Samuel Koder, was an [...]

Jay Kanter, whose long career as an agent to the stars — including Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe and Grace Kelly — and later as a studio executive made him one of the last of the generation of power brokers who dominated Hollywood in the late 20th century, died on August 6 at his home in Beverly Hills, CA. He was 97. Among Mr. Kanter’s close friends was Mel Brooks. He joined Mr. Brooks, the director [...]

Rabbi Shmuel Butman, who was the public face of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic sect during the antisemitic riots in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, in 1991, and who every Hanukkah for decades saw that possibly the world’s largest menorah was illuminated in Central Park, died on July 22 in Manhattan. He was 81. The announcement of his death on the Chabad community website recalled that Rabbi Butman had written The Rebbe in Paris, a book about Rabbi Menachem [...]

Charlie Moss, the visionary advertising executive who produced the stunningly successful “I ❤ NY” tourism campaign in the mid-1970s, died on August 5 at his home in Wainscott, NY. He was 85. By 1983, the New York Times said that $3 billion in spending by tourists was directly attributed to the campaign. Mr. Moss also conceived Alka-Seltzer’s popular “Plop, plop, fizz, fizz” jingle and the “Flick your Bic” slogan for Bic lighters. He helped Braniff International Airways [...]