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Sumner Redstone, originally Sumner Murray Rothstein, (born May 27, 1923, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.—died August 11, 2020, Los Angeles, California), American media executive whose company, National Amusements, Inc. (NAI), acquired leading film, television, and entertainment properties, notably Viacom and CBS. Redstone’s father, Michael (Mickey), was a liquor wholesaler, nightclub owner, and drive-in movie operator. As a boy, Redstone studied at the Boston Latin School and went on to attend Harvard College (B.A., 1944) and Harvard Law School (L.L.B., 1947). After practicing law in Washingt...

Those we lost in 2020: Remembering the rabbis, pioneers and innovators   Merlijn Doomernik Meijer and Tedje van der Sluis during the filming of a 2018 documentary film about their marriage. Tedje died April 11, 2020, of the coronavirus. (JTA) - There's no way to tally all those 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 the pioneer jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the m...

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 w...

Those we lost in 2020: Remembering the rabbis, pioneers, innovators and family members December 28, 2020 11:46 am Clockwise from top left: Rabbi Dovid Feinstein, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Kirk Douglas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Catie Lazarus. (Getty Images; photo design by Grace Yagel) Advertisement (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, realm...