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Robert Bernstein, Human Rights Watch founder who chided group for anti-Israel bias, dies at 96

As the head of Random House, Bernstein published the works of several Soviet dissidents, including Natan Sharansky.

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Rabbi Lawrence Troster, Jewish environmental activist, dies at 65

He frequently lectured on and wrote about the religious perspective on environmentalism, bioethics, and Judaism and modern science.

Nurit Karlin, Israeli-born cartoonist who broke into a men’s club at The New Yorker, dies at 80

In one wordless cartoon, two doves fight over an olive branch.

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Menachem Mendel Taub, Hasidic dynasty head devoted to Holocaust memory, dies at 96

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David Brion Davis, historian who wrote landmark trilogy on slavery, dies at 92

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Cantor Sherwood Goffin, who served Manhattan’s Lincoln Square Synagogue for 50 years, dies

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Michel Bacos, pilot who refused to abandon Jewish passengers in Entebee hijacking, dies at 95

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Rafi Eitan, spymaster who led capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann and handled Jonathan Pollard, dies at 92

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Alan Krueger, economist who advised Clinton and Obama, dies at 58

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Pianist and composer Leopold Kleinman-Kozłowski dies at 100

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