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.
Izzy Young, who produced Bob Dylan’s first major concert, dies at 90 His Folklore Center in New York’s Greenwich Village was a center of the era’s folk revival.
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, interfaith activist who raised millions in Christian donations for Israel, dies at 67 The founder of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews died of heart failure in Israel.
Hector Timerman, Jewish Argentine foreign minister investigated for cutting deal with Iran, dies at 65