Pearl Berg, world’s oldest Jew and 9th-oldest person overall, dies at 114
“She didn’t smoke, she ate sensibly, she had good emotional balance and she clearly had remarkable genes,” said her youngest son
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Fast Forward Bernie Steinberg, 78, a Harvard Hillel director who promoted pluralism, and courted controversy, to the end
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Fast Forward Boston writer Norm Finkelstein, whose YA books championed Jewish heroes, dies at 82
The Boston educator and author would joke about sharing a name with one of the most vociferous critics of Israel
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