From Shabbat dinners to ‘Talmudic discourse’: Jewish women killed in NYC shooting leave legacies of faith and family
Wesley LePatner and Julia Hyman were members of New York’s Jewish community
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Fast Forward Tom Lehrer, satirist who sang about ‘Hanukkah in Santa Monica,’ dies at 97
The song, commissioned by Garrison Keillor in 1990, was one of the first popular tunes about a Jewish holiday
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Fast Forward Rabbi Neil Danzig, scholar who unlocked mysteries of the Talmud, dies at 74
The longtime Jewish Theological Seminary professor was an expert on the Babylonian rabbis and leaders known as Geonim
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Fast Forward Connie Francis, 20th-century star turned TikTok sensation, recorded an album of Jewish songs in 1960
Francis died Wednesday at 87, more than six decades after releasing “Connie Francis Sings Jewish Favorites"
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Fast Forward S. Daniel Abraham, Slim-Fast Foods creator and Israel peace advocate, dies at 100
Abraham founded the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace in 1989, a nonprofit aimed at peacebuilding between Israelis and Palestinians
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Fast Forward Marthe Cohn, survivor and nurse who spied for the French, dies at 105
Her story was also told in a documentary “The Accidental Spy"
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Fast Forward Leonard Lauder, who expanded his Jewish family’s business into a cosmetics empire, dies at 92
As CEO of the Estée Lauder Companies, he generated a fortune that supported his philanthropy in the arts and his brother Ronald’s support for Jewish causes
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Fast Forward Helena Weinrauch, Holocaust survivor and ‘dancing angel,’ dies at 100
The beloved New Yorker was known for her late-in-life passion for ballroom dancing, as well as for wearing the same hand-knit sweater at Passover every year
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