Obituaries

Marvin Kreithen, a Philadelphia engineer whose work helped pioneer computerized control systems in the machine tool industry and who later devoted much of his...

In the days after her death, stories about Vivi Sadel began to surface — former students who said she shaped their lives, community members...

Ellen Braunstein Jeffrey Charles Trocki (Yechiel Chaim), a Margate man born with Down syndrome who was known for his warmth, humor and deep Jewish identity,...

Ellen Braunstein Rhona Katz, a Philadelphia native who pursued Jewish learning as an adult, became active in the Soviet Jewry movement and opened her home...

Ellen Braunstein Helen Cherry, a Philadelphia-born illustrator whose work in children’s books spanned decades and reflected a deep sensitivity to childhood experience, died on Jan....

Grace Gilson Isaiah Zagar, the famed Jewish mosaic artist whose shimmering, kaleidoscopic installations transformed streets and buildings across Philadelphia and founded the city’s Magic Gardens,...

Barbara Morgen Wertheimer first encountered Pegasus Therapeutic Riding Academy not as a nonprofit executive, but as a mother searching for opportunity for her daughter...

Jack F. Adler Jr., a Philadelphia business executive and longtime civic and Jewish nonprofit leader whose work shaped health care, education and the arts...

Natan Nemirovsky, a Philadelphia psychiatrist who spent more than three decades in private practice and who helped bring his extended family from the former...

Sofya Fishman of Philadelphia believed in forward motion — in learning, adapting and refusing to be defined by circumstance. That outlook carried her across continents...