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Filmmaker Stanley Donen, director of ‘Singin’ in the Rain,’ dies at 94

Stanley Donen never received an Academy Award nomination but in 1998 was awarded an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement.

Al Vorspan, social justice leader for the Reform movement, dies at 95

Vorspan helped organize the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism and served as the longtime director of the Commission on Social Action.

Transgender rights activist Barbra Siperstein dies at 76

She told her wife she was transgender in the late 1980s, but did not become a public advocate for gender equality and transgender rights until after her wife’s death in 2001.

Obituaries

Izzy Young, who produced Bob Dylan’s first major concert, dies at 90

Obituaries

Rela Mintz Geffen, former Baltimore Hebrew University president, dies at 75

United States

Leonard Dinnerstein, an expert on anti-Semitism in America, dies at 84

Israel

Meshulam Riklis, Israeli-American corporate ‘takeover artist,’ dies at 95

Obituaries

Urban sociologist Nathan Glazer, a founder of neo-conservatism, dies at 95

Obituaries

Carol Channing, the original star of ‘Hello Dolly!,’ dies at 97

Israel

Moshe Arens, Israeli defense minister under 3 prime ministers, dies at 93

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