Beloved Hasidic singer Dedi Graucher passes away
Singer who took part in Israel's largest-ever outdoor concert passes away at 62 following lengthy battle with cancer.
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Legendary editor Robert Gottlieb dies at 92
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Popular singer and performer scored numerous hits during decades long career, beginning in the 1960s.
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Harold Kushner, best-selling Jewish author, dies at 88
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Renowned author Yehonatan Geffen passes away at 76
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Jewish Law & Order actor Richard Belzer dies at 78
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Bob Born, Jewish maker of Peeps marshmallow candies, dies at 98
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Grigory Kanovich, award-winning author who chronicled Lithuanian Jewry, dies at 93
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Rabbi Chaim Druckman dead at 90
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Former MK Moshe Mizrahi dead at 72
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Steven Salen, a tailor who survived the Holocaust and dressed presidents, dies at 103
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Rabbi Mordechai Sternberg, Dean of Har Hamor Yeshiva, passes away at 74
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Educational pioneer Rabbi Hillel Plesser laid to rest
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Rabbi Simcha HaCohen Kook passes away at 92
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Former Meretz MK Ilan Gilon passes away at 65
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Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman dies at 75
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Woman wounded by rocket in May succumbs to injuries
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Rabbi Simcha Krauss, ‘gentle giant’ who fought for women’s rights in Orthodoxy, dies at 85
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Honorary chair of Turkish Jewish community passes away
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Acclaimed Jewish theater actor Antony Sher dies at 72
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French resistance member Justus Rosenberg dies at 100
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