Jules Feiffer, a ‘smartass’ Jew whose work spanned comics and cinema, dies at 95
The Pulitzer winner was working on a new book, and just moved upstate
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Cogan also created slogans for the Soviet Jewry movement and a group that championed Modern Orthodoxy
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Fast Forward Agnes Keleti, Holocaust survivor who won 10 Olympic gymnastics medals, dies at 103
Keleti moved to Israel in 1957 and helped build the new country’s gymnastics program
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The president who secured the Egyptian-Israeli peace accord in 1978 went on to become the target of vitriol for his warnings that Israel was headed toward apartheid
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Fast Forward Arlene Agus, New Yorker who popularized Rosh Chodesh rituals for Jewish women, dies at 75
A pioneering Jewish feminist and founding member of Minyan M’at in Manhattan
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Fast Forward Arthur Frommer, ‘wandering Jew’ who launched a travel guide empire, dies at 95
He wrote his first travel book as a U.S. Army intelligence officer in Berlin
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