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Obituaries
Goodbye to ‘Little Miss Sparkle’Esta Salzman, the last actress to be part of New York City’s Second Avenue musical theater scene during its heyday in the 1920s and ’30s, died April 23 at the age of 94.
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Herbert Friedman, 89, Major Philanthropist During Israel’s Early YearsRabbi Herbert A. Friedman, a dominant figure in American Jewish philanthropy during Israel’s formative years, died March 31 at his New York home. He was 89, and succumbed after a prolonged period of illness, according to his wife, Francine.
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Rabbi Eli Teitelbaum, Dial-a-Daf Creator, 68Rabbi Eli Teitelbaum, an ultra-Orthodox educator and innovator who created a series of dial-in phone lines with lectures on sacred texts, died March 23 at the age of 68.
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