Obituaries

Innovative philanthropist and businessman Edward B. Robin, whose impact on Jewish life stretched from Los Angeles to New York and on to Israel and Russia, died on Oct. 8 after a long illness at Cedars Sinai Hospital, surrounded by his family.

My father, Albert Farkas, whom many called a “Munkacser Yid,” passed away on the second day of Rosh Hashanah at age 102.

Edward Mosberg, a Holocaust survivor whose passion for sharing his story inspired people everywhere, died on Sept. 21. He was 96.

In her short life, Alison taught us so much about knowing what is important in life, and staying focused. 

Nikbakht spent the last four decades of his life as one of only a handful of Iranian Jewish activists publicly speaking out against the Iranian regime’s policy of abuse against Jews and other religious minorities living in Iran.