Piper Laurie, a respected actress with three Oscar nominations, an Emmy Award, and eight other Emmy nominations, died on Oct. 14 at a nursing facility in Los Angeles. She was 91.

Moviegoers will recall her performances in “The Hustler,” “Carrie,” and “Children of a Lesser God.” She won an Emmy for “Promise,” a CBS movie about schizophrenia.

When asked in a 2011 interview with the Archive of American Television what acting advice she would offer, Ms. Laurie said that her childhood shyness may have helped her “learn to listen, really, deeply, fully.”

Alice Shalvi, an educator and social activist, died on Oct. 2 at her home in Jerusalem. She was 96.

Dr. Shalvi was best known for her leadership of Pelech, an experimental school in Jerusalem that provides an egalitarian secular and religious education for Orthodox girls, and for her work as the founding director of the Israel Women’s Network. The network lobbies the government to reform Israeli laws treating women differently in the military, marriage, employment and for health care.

In her memoir, Dr. Shalvi wrote with pride about her Pelech students — “my girls,” she called them — who had gone on to become judges, doctors, university lecturers, curators and business executives. “They are bearing out my contention,” she wrote, “that no area in life should be closed to you just because you are female.”

Russell Sherman, a music educator and a pianist admired for his poetic interpretations of Schoenberg, Beethoven, Debussy, Liszt and others, died on Sept. 30 at his home in Lexington, MA. He was 93.

Mr. Sherman began giving public concerts in the 1970s, performing with the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra as well as major European orchestras. His concerts drew devoted fans who admired his dramatic interpretations.

Eva Kollisch, who escaped Nazi-occupied Austria when she was a teenager to become a professor and memoirist who broke new ground in feminist studies, died on Oct. 10 in Manhattan. She was 98.

The author of two memoirs, Ms. Kollisch taught for 30 years at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY, where with Gerda Lerner, Joan Kelly and Sherry Ortner, she helped introduce a foundational women’s studies curriculum.

Raised in a prosperous, secular Jewish family outside Vienna, she recalled facing antisemitism from the age of 6. At times, she said, she was beaten up and called a “dirty Jew.”

When she was 13 and the Nazis annexed Austria, she could no longer continue her education with other Austrian girls and was sent to a boarding school in Vienna for Jewish girls.

In 1939, her parents placed her and her brothers on a Kindertransport train, part of the rescue operation that took about 10,000 Jewish children out of occupied Europe to safety in the Netherlands and England in the months before WWII erupted that September. She was one of the lucky ones who reunited with her parents in New York in 1940.

In an oral history interview in 2004, Ms. Kollisch said that while she remained committed to her fundamental progressive principles, she had to confront additional challenges. “I am a feminist, I am a Marxist, but I am also very worried about the whole world and humanity, and where humanity is.”

 It is with profound sadness that The Shofar announces the death of Philip Goldman, a long-time member of our shul and a stalwart supporter of the mission of our shul to be a beacon of Judaism here on the North Fork. To that end, he served in virtually every capacity necessary to maintain the ideals as well as the smooth operation of this institution. He died on Monday, Sept. 4, 2023, after a long illness. He was 95.

From President, Treasurer, and member of the Board of Directors, to committee chairman, committee member, builder, chef — even a one-time co-editor of this publication with his wife Elaine — and advisor to all who sought his wisdom, Phil Goldman willingly shared his vast knowledge and experience.

His shul came second only to his family — his brothers and sisters, his wife and children, nieces and nephews, and their children. To them, he gave his deep love, and from them he enjoyed their accomplishments, their companionship, and the love and admiration they showered upon him.

We miss your presence, Phil, but you will always be with us in spirit.

Arleen Sorkin, the veteran actor and screenwriter, was best known for portraying Calliope Jones on the NBC daytime serial “Days of Our Lives” from 1984-1990, and for serving as the real-life inspiration and voice for DC Comics villain Harley Quinn, co-created by her friend Paul Dini on “Batman: The Animated Series,” died August 24 in Los Angeles. She was 67.

Her writing included the television series “Tiny Toon Adventures,” and the screenplay “Picture Perfect,” starring Jennifer Aniston.

She also voiced Harley Quinn in videogames and, for the series “Frazier,” she was the voice of several callers to Frazier’s radio show.

Nancy Buirski, an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker, whose eye was honed as a still photographer and picture editor, died on August 30 at her home in Manhattan. She was 78.

Having founded the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in 1998 at Duke University and directing it for a decade, Ms. Buirski made her own first documentary, “The Loving Story,” in 2011. The film explored the case of Mildred and Richard Loving, who faced imprisonment because their interracial marriage in 1968 was illegal in Virginia. The documentary, directed by Ms. Buirski, won an Emmy for outstanding historical programming, long form, and a Peabody Award.

She went on to write and direct other films, but it was a still photograph by Kevin Carter, chosen by her to accompany an article about war and famine in southern Sudan, that secured a first-ever award for the New York Times. The photo showed an emaciated toddler collapsing on the way to a United Nations feeding center as a vulture lurked menacingly in the background. She wanted the image to appear on the front page; she said, “This is going to win the paper’s first-ever Pulitzer Prize for photography.” The photograph ended up appearing on an inside page in the issue of March 26, 1993. It won the Pulitzer in feature photography that year.