JERUSALEM — The Eulogizer highlights the life accomplishments of famous and not-so-famous Jews who have passed away recently.

Randy Savage, 57, pro wrestler and entertainer

Randy Mario Poffo, better known as Randy “Macho Man” Savage, a professional wrestling legend and media celebrity for more than 20 years, died at 57 on May 20 in a one-car accident in Florida. Savage, whose father and brother were pro wrestlers, was a top star in the wrestling world in the 1980s and 1990s, and built on that fame with product endorsements, videos, action figures, television and movie appearances, and even a rap recording.

As Randy Poffo, before wrestling, Savage played minor league baseball for five years in the St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds and Chicago White Sox farm systems. He had a career batting average of .254 with 16 home runs in 289 games.

Arieh Handler, 95, British Zionist leader

    Arieh Handler, a longtime British Zionist leader, a founder of the Bnei Akiva movement in Britain, an activist on behalf of Ethiopian Jews and the man believed to have been the last living attendee at the signing of Israel’s Declaration of Independence in 1948, died May 19 in Israel at 95. Handler made aliyah at age 90 after a lifetime of activities focused on saving Jewish lives.

Joseph Wershba, 90, journalist

    Joseph Wershba, a pioneering TV journalist whose work helped discredit Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s witch hunt for U.S. communists in the mid-1950s, died at 90 on May 14. Wershba produced several 1953 and 1954 reports on McCarthy for Edward R. Murrow’s groundbreaking CBS news program “See It Now.” McCarthy had falsely accused celebrities and entertainers, including playwright Arthur Miller and Charlie Chaplin, of having communist ties.

Maurice Goldhaber, 100, atomic physicist

    Maurice Goldhaber, who headed the Brookhaven National Laboratory and contributed to science’s basic understanding of how the universe works with the subatomic particles called neutrinos, died May 11 at 100. Goldhaber officially retired in 1985 but went to Brookhaven regularly until 2008.

Goldhaber “made numerous significant contributions that helped to establish parts of the theory of subatomic physics now known as the standard model,” Brookhaven said in a tribute.

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