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Bert Pogrebin.

Bert Pogrebin, attorney and partner to leading feminist Letty Cottin Pogrebin, dies at 89

“We need people like Bert more than ever,” Hillary Clinton said in a eulogy.

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Martin Greenfield.

Martin Greenfield, Auschwitz survivor and master tailor to American presidents, dies at 95

“Receiving your first tailoring lesson inside a Nazi concentration camp was hardly the ideal apprenticeship,” Greenfield once recalled.

Jewish Life Stories: Hasidic filmmaker Menachem Daum, pioneering publisher Carol Hupping Fisher

Remembering those who made an outsize impact in the Jewish world — or just left their community a better or more interesting place.

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Rabbi Laurie Phillips, founder of a Manhattan ‘synagogue without walls,’ dies at 55

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Jenessa Schwartz, Bay Area day school teacher and cancer ‘thriver,’ dies at 41

Pee Wee Herman

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Paul Reubens, Pee-wee Herman creator and son of a pilot in Israel’s war of independence, is dead at 70

New York

The fuzzy, neurotic, unmistakably Jewish legacy of cartoonist Ed Koren

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David Gottesman, scion of Jewish philanthropic dynasty and Warren Buffett partner, dies at 96

pauline bart

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Pauline Bart, sociologist whose Jewish identity infused her research, is dead at 91

Aurel Vainer with children

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Romanian Jews bid ‘goodbye to an era’ with death of their longtime leader, Aurel Vainer, at 89

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