Dick Moss, a labor lawyer who, with Marvin Miller, the powerful leader of the union that represents baseball players, set the stage for the sport’s free agency revolution and the multi-million-dollar salaries to come.

In 1977, he stepped down from the union to become a sports agent; his clients included the pitcher Nolan Ryan, for whom he negotiated baseball’s first $1 million annual salary, with the Houston Astros,

in 1979 (the equivalent of $4.35 million today).

[Note: The highest paid baseball player today is Shohei Ohtani, who signed a 10-year $700 contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers to be a pitcher and designated hitter.]

Naftali Herstik, whose resonant tenor and elegant interpretations of Jewish liturgical music made him one of the most influential cantors of his time, died on Sept. 1 at his home in Ra’anana, Israel. He was 77.

Known for his silken-voiced tenor, Mr. Herstik had an extraordinary range of three octaves, comfortable in deep bass, the high-C register or falsetto. Equally important was his gift for conveying the emotions of solemn prayers. They were often appeals to the Lord for mercy and sustenance — a sensibility infused by his upbringing as the son of Holocaust survivors — or joyous expressions of gratitude for the biblical miracles.

Starting in his late teens, he served as the cantor at a succession of Israeli synagogues and then worked for seven years at the prestigious Finchley United Synagogue in London. He returned to Israel in 1979 to take a position as the cantor of the Heichal Shlomo Synagogue in Jerusalem. When a new sanctuary, which became the Great Synagogue, was built next door in 1982, he was appointed its cantor.

After retiring from the Great Synagogue in Jerusalem in 2012, Mr. Herstik traveled nine times to Russia to lead prayers for the High Holy Days at the Chorale Synagogue in Moscow.

Joel Fleishman, whose prominence as an expert on philanthropy was only the most public side of a man whose wide network of friends in high places, immense fundraising talents, and deep knowledge of subjects like classical music and fine wine made him an influencer among the nation’s wealthy and powerful, died on Sept. 30 in Chapel Hill, NC. He was 90

Having grown up in a tight-knit Jewish community in Fayetteville, he remained deeply religious and raised money for Jewish student life at Duke. In 2021, the university’s Chabad chapter purchased a building for its new home, which it renamed Fleishman House.

He taught his final class in 2023, bringing a five-decade teaching career to an end — but not, he insisted, his career as a whole. “I’m not retiring now,” he said in an interview after his last lecture. “I’m just downsizing.”

Eugene Gold, a former tough-on-crime Brooklyn district attorney who in the late 1970s spearheaded the successful prosecution of David Berkowitz, the so-called Son of Sam serial killer, died on Aug. 5 at his home in Woodstock, NY. He was 100.

After a 13-year tenure, Mr. Gold stepped down as DA in 1981, having gained further prominence as a leading voice in an international campaign to win emigration rights for Jews in what was then the Soviet Union.

Lore Segal, author of autobiographical novels of her life as a young Jewish Viennese refugee in England and as an émigré in America, died on Oct. 7 at her home in Manhattan. She was 96.

Ms. Segal was one of 500 children who boarded a train in Vienna as part of the British-organized Kindertransport that delivered them from Nazi-occupied territory to foster families in England. Ms. Segal, age 10, was registered as No. 152, the only child of middle-class parents. Her parents followed in 1939.

She ultimately settled in New York and began to tell tales of her exile. “Other People’s Houses,” Ms. Segal’s memoir-disguised as a novel, first appeared in serial form in The New Yorker before it was published as a book in 1964. She became a regular contributor to the magazine. Her 2007 novel, Shakespeare’s Kitchen, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction.

Lily Ebert, a Holocaust survivor and author, died Oct. 9, at her home in London. She was 100. In July 1944, when she was 20 years old, she and most of her family were packed onto a train and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp where, on arrival, she watched as her mother and two of her siblings were led to a gas chamber. She vowed that if she survived, she would tell the world what had happened to them, and to those who had no one to tell their stories.

She survived, and she spent the rest of her life fulfilling that vow. She spoke publicly about her experience, wrote a memoir, Lily’s Promise, which became a New York Times bestseller, and educated millions of young followers about the horrors of the Holocaust on TikTok, through an account she shared with her great-grandson Dov Forman.

Joseph H. Reich, a financier and philanthropist who with his wife created one of New York City’s first independently-run public schools, proving that impoverished students could outperform expectations in such a setting, and which helped to kick-start the city’s charter-school movement died ongtyt Sept. 29 at his home in Sheffield, MA. He was 89.

Convinced that city-run schools were failing to educate students in high-poverty neighborhoods, Mr. Reich and his wife, Carol Friedman Reich, raised $1 million and secured a building, opening the Beginning With Children school in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn in 1992. Six years later, New York State passed the Charter Schools Act, codifying rules for such experiments. Today, 15 percent of New York City schoolchildren are enrolled in one of the city’s 281 charter schools.