Mary Travers passed away yesterday at age 72. Mary succumbed to the side effects of chemotherapy treatments.
Mary Travers, was the female vocal with the folk trio of Peter, Paul and Mary (Puff the Magic Dragon). While Mary Travers was not Jewish and politically liberal, she fought hard for years throughout the 1980’s for Soviet refusniks, meeting with them in Russia and advocating the cause of Soviet Jewry via concerts and other means.
In addition, it’s interesting to note, and while the young frum ones of today will find it hard to believe, I know personally of at least one Gadol in the 1960’s that permitted his family to listen to Peter, Paul and Mary records.