(RNS) — For the past 26 years, I have been cataloging the most important stories of the year. As a rabbi, I’m particularly interested in stories that impact the world Jewish community. Here are my top 10 Jewish news stories in 2017 in reverse order:
10. Notable deaths: 2017 saw the deaths of Edith (“Edie”) Windsor, the lead plaintiff in the Supreme Court case that helped legalize same-sex marriages; Holocaust survivor Yisrael Kristal, who at his death at age 113 was the world’s oldest man; Otto Warmbier, an Ohio college student who died shortly after his return to the U.S. from a North Korean prison; Jonathan Woocher, an influential scholar and author on Jewish education, and comedian Jerry Lewis.
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