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(JTA) — It’s always difficult to whittle down the list of influential Jews who died in a given year, but this year the task seemed to be especially tough. From a pioneering LGBTQ activist to a pair of legendary comedians to a 104-year-old haredi Orthodox rabbi, here are some of the Jews we lost in…
Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman, the leader of the non-Hasidic Lithuanian haredi-Orthodox community, has died at the age of 104. Shteinman died on Tuesday morning of cardiac arrest after being in and out of the hospital for much of the last year. Hundreds of thousands of mourners attended Shteinman’s funeral, which began in front of his…
