The 5 Towns Jewish Times
December 28, 2020
(JTA) There’s no way to tally all whom we lost in 2020, a year when we mourned even our ability to carry out time-tested rituals of grief.
Among those who died this year were some of the Jewish world’s most famous and influential pillars in a range of industries, realms of thought and areas of activism from pioneer jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg to moral thought leader Rabbi Jonathan Sacks to Orthodox rabbi Norman Lamm to influential LGBTQ activist Larry Kramer.
But many of the people whose deaths tell the story of 2020 were not widely known, except among the people who loved them and the communities they enriched.
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SALT LAKE CITY In many ways, 2020 was a year unlike any other.
If there was one headline in the news that could possibly sum it up, it was a CNN guest column with the headline 1918 + 1929 + 1968 = 2020, published back in the thick of protests over police brutality during a pandemic that also resulted in economic calamity.
Of course, 2020 didn t produce something as quite as deadly as the 1918 pandemic or as financially devastating as Black Thursday, or even as violent as 1968. Having those moments in one year, however, was unique. And 2020 produced hardships that those other years didn t, like some of the worst wildfires ever recorded.
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