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In this Jan. 1987 file photo, Actress Valerie Harper laughs during an interview in New York. Valerie Harper, who scored guffaws and stole hearts as Rhoda Morgenstern on back-to-back hit sitcoms in the 1970s, has died, Friday, Aug. 30, 2019. She was 80. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm)
August 31, 2019, 4:48 pm
Valerie Harper, who played lovable, sassy ‘Jewish’ sitcom star Rhoda, dies at 80
She was Catholic, but with Rhoda Morgenstern, she put a Jewish character front and center on a major network, later also portraying Golda Meir
By John Rogers
Mary Tyler Moore (E Milsom/Getty Images)
January 27, 2017, 8:09 pm
Mary Tyler Moore on childhood in Jewish neighborhood
Letter by actress who died this week recalls learning about Judaism growing up in Flatbush section of Brooklyn
By Ron Kampeas
Mary Tyler Moore as Mary Richards on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Image dated January 1, 1971. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images)
January 26, 2017, 1:33 am
Mary Tyler Moore turned the world on to fully imagined Jewish characters
The comic actress, who died Wednesday at 80, helped make it safe to be fully Jewish in the American imagination in the 1960s and 1970s
By Ron Kampeas
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