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A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars.

 An artistic portrait of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.
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Legendary journalist Larry King at The Jerusalem Post Conference in New York, May 7, 2017

Larry King, legendary Jewish-American talk show host, dies at 87

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Larry King, Jewish TV legend, hospitalized with COVID-19 - report


Larry King announces deaths of 2 of his children

Andy King died of a heart attack in late July at the age of 65. Chaia King, 51, died last week of lung cancer, shortly after it was diagnosed.

Legendary journalist Larry King at The Jerusalem Post Conference in New York, May 7, 2017

Larry King unknowingly filmed Chinese propaganda for Israeli entrepreneur

King had no idea of the subject of the interview and said he was just doing it as a favor for a guy he liked.

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Larry King to divorce his seventh wife

King married for the first time in 1952 and has been married eight times altogether, to seven women, since he married and divorced Alene Atkins twice.

Legendary journalist Larry King at The Jerusalem Post Conference in New York, May 7, 2017

Why did Larry King don tefillin?

The veteran broadcaster sent a special message to a Chabad rabbi with ALS.

Larry David in tefillin