Obituaries

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.

How Valerie Harper’s Rhoda embodied a very Jewish type

Rhoda helped define her “shiksa” best friend, and Mary returned the favor.

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

Kenneth Bialkin, longtime Jewish leader and philanthropist, dies at 89

New York rabbi drowns after jumping in lake to save his child

Rabbi Reuven Hammer, a pioneer of Conservative Judaism in Israel, dies at 86

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

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

German historian who faked family Holocaust story dies at 31

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