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Sami Rohr, a Jewish philanthropist living in Florida, has died at the age of 86. Rohr was active with Chabad-Lubavitch and has donated more than $250 million to global Jewish causes. A $100,000 annual prize for Jewish literature given by the Jewish Book Council is named in his honor. Rohr was born in Berlin, fleeing […]

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Marvin Hamlisch, the acclaimed composer and arranger of dozens of Broadway plays and films, has died at 68. Hamlisch died Monday in Los Angeles following a brief illness. He was best known for the long-running Broadway musical “A Chorus Line,” which won several Tony Awards and for which Hamlisch won the Pulitzer Prize. Along with […]

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