Isaac Berger, known as Ike, who won three Olympic medals, six World Championships (twice winning gold), and eight U.S. national championships in weightlifting during the 1950s and ‘60s, died June 4.

Berger is remembered for his feats of strength, performing massive lifts while competing in the featherweight class. He was the first featherweight in history to lift more than 800 pounds in the snatch and clean and jerk events. Also, he was the first American featherweight to press double his bodyweight.

At the 1957 Maccabiah Games, Berger was the first athlete to break a world record in any sport in Israel. His gold medal was presented by Israeli Prime Minister David Bens Gurion, who called Berger the “gibor Yehudi” or “mighty Jew.” He was inducted into the U.S. Weightlifting Hall of Fame in 1965 and the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1980.

A.B. Yehoshua, the acclaimed Israeli novelist whose storytelling offered human portraits that captured the conditions in a land fraught with political strife, died on June 14 in Tel Aviv. He was 85.

In an oeuvre of 11 novels, three short-story collections, and four plays, he tackled as variety of narrative forms — from surrealist to historical — and delved into uncommon subjects. “Critics praised him for his nuanced understanding of the contradictory impulses that bedevil people and his capacity to find tender humor amid sorrow and despair,” The New York Times said.

Mr. Yehoshua won the National Jewish Book Award for fiction for Mr. Mani in 1992. He also won the Israel Prize, awarded annually by the state for important cultural contributions, and in 2005, he was shortlisted for the first Man Booker International Prize, then given for an entire body of work.

Lennie Rosenbluth, the All-America forward who led a North Carolina team to an unbeaten season and a thrilling victory over Wilt Chamberlain’s Kansas squad in the 1957 NCAA basketball tournament championship game, died on June 18. He was 89.

Rosenbluth, at 6 feet 5 inches, averaged 28 points per game in the 1956-57 season and beat out Chamberlain for the Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year award. His Tar Heels went 32-0 and capped their season with a 54-53 triple-overtime victory over Kansas, with Rosenbluth scoring 20 points before fouling out late in regulation. Chamberlain was held to 23 points after averaging 30 during the regular season.

After graduating from North Carolina and playing for the Philadelphia Warriors, Rosenbluth taught American history and coached basketball at a high school in Wilson, NC.

He was inducted into the International Jewish sports Hall of Fame in Israel, and the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame and Museum in Commack, NY.

The Shofar joins the membership is extending deepest condolences to the family of Diana (Dede) Whitsit, a long-time shul member who died on May 12 at her home in Orient. May family, friends and colleagues be comforted by many happy occasions spent together with her.

Following her death, family and friends visited Dede’s favorite viewing spot over the water in Orient. To them, this remarkable photo, captured by Sally Heitel barely a moment before the sun disappeared below the horizon, seemed an acknowledgment of togetherness from Dede.

Richard C. Wald, who was the last managing editor of The New York Herald Tribune, ran NBC News in the 1970s, and helped turn ABC News into a powerhouse, died May 13 in New Rochelle, NY. He was 92.

In 1980, Mr. Wald also gave ABC’s celebrated late-night news program, Nightline, its name. At the time, it was called America Held Hostage, a nightly report about the hostage crisis in Iran. Ted Koppel, the program’s former host, recalled a meeting with Roone Arledge, ABC’s president; Mr. Wald, and David Burke, Mr. Arledge’s other top lieutenant, at which they tossed out new names for the program. “Dick said, ‘You know, in horse racing, they’ve got this thing called the morning line. Why don’t we call it Nightline?’” Mr. Koppel said in a phone interview. “And the three of us said that’s a really terrible idea, and Dick said, ‘I haven’t heard anything better.’” Nightline has aired since 1980.

Geraldine Weiss, who, after being told by a succession of stockbrokers that she was best qualified for the secretarial pool, devised an unconventional moneymaking strategy that she used in becoming the first woman to launch a successful investment newsletter, died on April 25 at her home in the La Jolla area of San Diego. She was 96.

For more than a decade, Ms. Weiss wrote, edited and published her stock market newsletter, Investment Quality Trends, as G. Weiss to conceal her identity as a woman. It wasn’t until 1977 that she disclosed her full identity in an appearance on the PBS show “Wall Street Week With Louis Rukeyser.”

Ms. Weiss grounded her twice-a-month advisories in company dividends instead of the intense analysis of corporate earnings, which has long been the dominant focus of Wall Street. She argued that dividends were the best gauge of performance, because they represented here-and-now cash not subject to subterfuge. She explained that earnings can be “hidden or disguised behind vague bookkeeping terms such as cash flow, depreciation or inventory reserves and distorted by taxes.” She became known as the grand dame of dividends.

Sid Mark, a longtime disc jockey in Philadelphia who made Frank Sinatra’s songs the center of his wide-reaching musical universe for more than six decades, died on April 18 in Bryn Mawr, Pa. He was 88.

He hosted three shows on various Philadelphia radio stations: “Friday With Frank,” “Sunday With Sinatra,” and the syndicated “The Sounds of Sinatra,” which has run for 43 years and at its height was heard on 100 stations. He also hosted a fourth, “Saturday With Sinatra,” on stations in New York.

His admiration for Sinatra’s music swelled when he listened to his records on the radio at night in 1953 in the Army barracks at Camp Polk in Louisiana. “Somehow his voice got to me, and I realized he knew exactly what he was singing about,” he said. “If he was singing about lonely, he knew what lonely was. If he was singing about love, he knew what love was about.”

Mr. Mark hosted “Friday With Frank” for 54 years, “Saturday With Sinatra” for about 17, and “Sunday With Sinatra” for more than 40. “The Sounds of Sinatra” will remain on the air and present archival shows, said his son Brian Mark, the executive producer.