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Pioneering journalist Cokie Roberts, who with her husband wrote about their interfaith marriage, dies

The couple’s book “From This Day Forward” candidly tells the story of their marriage, and they also wrote an interfaith Haggadah.

Robert Frank, influential photographer best known for his book ‘The Americans,’ dies at 94

The groundbreaking photos for “The Americans,” some purposely out of focus and grainy and in poor lighting, were taken during road trips across the United States in the mid-1950s funded by a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Peter Sheft, financial adviser and 70 Faces Media board member, dies at 63

The New Yorker helped broker the merger between My Jewish Learning and the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

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Morton Bahr, who led Communications Workers of America, is dead at 93

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Harold Prince, who brought ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ to the stage, dies at 91

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German historian who faked family Holocaust story dies at 31

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Mark Talisman, champion of key law in fight for Soviet Jewry, is dead at 78

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Lucette Lagnado, whose prize-winning memoir recalled her family’s Egyptian-Jewish past, dies at 63

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Artur Brauner, German-Jewish producer of ‘Europa Europa’ and other major films, dies at 100

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Brazilian veteran Jewish journalist Salomao Schvartzman dies at 85

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