At Abraham Foxman’s funeral, an elegy for the last generation with direct ties to the Holocaust
The longtime ADL helped define American Jewish leadership in the second half of the 20th century
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Foxman, who died at 86, mixed blunt political analysis with personal warmth, Yiddish and weekly Shabbat greetings
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Weiss was the first-ever woman to ordain rabbis in the Reform movement
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Culture Forever curious, never daunted, Frederick Wiseman sought to repair the world through film
The great documentarian, who has died at 96, leaves behind a legacy of films that offer a moral accounting of the American soul
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'People respected him for his intellect and for his selflessness, and he was a real nice guy,' said one colleague
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