• Sep 26, 2020
Thousands of mourners paid their respects to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg during the two days her casket rested at the top of the Supreme Court steps, including former President Bill Clinton, who nominated her to the high court in 1993, and President Trump.
On Friday, Ginsburg lay in state at the U.S. Capitol, the first woman and the first Jewish person to be given that honor in the nation s history.
Ginsburg, who died at the age of 87 from pancreatic cancer, was only the second woman to be nominated to the Supreme Court.
Final goodbyes: Notable people the world lost in 2020
By Bernard McGhee - Associated Press
From left, Ruth Bader Ginsburg served 27 years on the U.S. Supreme Court; John Lewis was an icon of the civil rights movement.
AP
(AP) In a year defined by a devastating pandemic, the world lost iconic defenders of civil rights, great athletes and entertainers who helped define their genres.
Many of their names hold a prominent place in the collective consciousness RBG, Kobe, Maradona, Eddie Van Halen, Little Richard, Sean Connery, Alex Trebek but pandemic restrictions often limited the public’s ability to mourn their loss in a year that saw more than a million people die from the coronavirus.
In 2020, the nation faced two existential threats: an out-of-control coronavirus pandemic that killed more than 300,000 people in the United States in less than 12 months, and an erratic, self-obsessed Republican president whose administration withheld support from states with Democratic governors and held campaign rallies where hundreds of people gathered closely together without wearing masks.
The threats blended as President Donald Trump allowed the pandemic to spread and openly denied the results of the November election that he lost by seven million popular votes and 74 Electoral College votes. And while both of these threats dominated the news throughout 2020, there were some LGBTQ-specific events that stood out for the history books. Here are our candidates for 2020 s Top 10 LGBTQ news stories.
The top Jewish stories of 2020
As for all the world, COVID-19 dominated Jewish life in 2020, but not all the news in the Jewish world was about the virus and even some events driven by the pandemic were not without a silver lining. A Jewish man wears a face mask to curb the spread of the coronavirus as he reads from a Torah scroll at the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray in Jerusalem’s Old City, on April 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
December 30, 2020
(RNS) In a year dominated by the miseries of COVID-19, not all the news in the Jewish world was about the virus and even some events driven by the pandemic were not without a silver lining. Herewith, a subjective look at the most important news stories of the year:
From Kobe to RBG: Remembering those we lost in 2020
Rick Bowmer/AP
FILE - Los Angeles Lakers forward Kobe Bryant (24) waves as he walks off the court during the second half of an NBA basketball game, Monday, March 28, 2016, in Salt Lake City. Bryant is the gameâs fourth-leading scorer. He spent 20 years with the Los Angeles Lakers, 18 as an All-Star, and won five titles. Then came the helicopter crash in the fog-shrouded California hills that reverberated across sports and across continents. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
and last updated 2020-12-30 12:13:36-05
2020 was a year filled with tremendous loss as the world mourned the passing of some polarizing figures this year. Before the coronavirus brought devastation and claimed the lives of so many, the year seemed to have started on a tragic note with the shocking helicopter crash that took the life of NBA great Kobe Bryant in January.