Richard Simmons' goal was "to really make this world a better place to live in," he once told fellow icon Dr. Ruth as the two sat across from each other, talking animatedly in a conversation that was ...

FILE - Dr. Ruth Westheimer signs a copy of her book "Sexually Speaking" in New York on April 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File) The first time I heard Dr. Ruth Westheimer I was in the back seat ...

I will always remember when I first met Dr. Ruth. It was a few months before her 75th birthday – so, a little more than 21 years ago. I was at a Jewish charity event, and was walking by a few of the ...

Tonight the Museum of Jewish Heritage will present a livestreamed memorial, while on June 25 the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute will explore her final book and screen her 2019 documentary.

Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the trailblazing sex therapist who was named New York’s Honorary Ambassador to Loneliness last year, died on Friday at the age of 96. That history-making appointment — one that Dr ...