Our Hebrew Bible teaches us that God has placed before us life and death, but commands us: Choose Life!  For Frances Gersten, who died Aug. 10 at 92, choosing life was more than a maxim. She and her late husband, Abraham (Abe), who died in 2016 at 93,...

A. E. Hotchner, a highly successful biographer of Ernest Hemingway and friend and business partner of Paul Newman, died Saturday, Feb. 15, at his home in Westport, Conn., it was announced by his wife, Virginia Kiser.Mr. Hotchner, who grew up in Depression-era...

When a Jewish Light food writer was looking for tips on matzah ball soup before Passover in 2008, she turned to someone who, to the unfamiliar, might have seemed an unlikely source: a Palestinian Muslim man.But Akram Ali-Hassan had been a chef at Kohn’s...

Sanford “Sandy” Jaffe, a beloved and admired business leader and volunteer for numerous philanthropic causes, died Thursday, Sept. 12, of complications from heart disease at his home in Chesterfield. He was 80 years old. Family members described him...