Longest-serving head of US basketball league, a lawyer by training, is credited with transforming the sport's fortunes into a $5 billion a year industry

The loss of these great Jewish figures this year underlines their many contributions to the community worldwide

Disc jockey survived controversy and addiction to achieve radio stardom, fell from grace following 2007 racial slur; remembered for off-air philanthropy

Italian President Sergio Mattarella hails him as a 'tireless witness to the memory of the Holocaust,' Jewish leaders lament his passing as Italy sees renewed surge of anti-Semitism

Law scholar fled Poland during Holocaust, lived in US as an undocumented migrant for years, and went on to pioneered practice of suing foreign governments

Born Rachel Mitrani in New York to Jewish parents from Spain, Morrison played a Latina maid on long-running series as well as in movies with Hollywood stars of several eras

75-year-old was outspoken critic of military regime's human rights abuses during 1970s

Maryland lawmaker founded Israel project to bring Jewish and black communities closer; led probes into Trump, who responded with remark about his district slammed as racist

Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation supported Jewish education at Brandeis University and Holocaust studies at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Yale professor and author of 20 books, including his breakthrough 'The Anxiety of Influence,' was son of immigrants from Russia, neither of whom ever learned to read English