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Obituaries

The Lucky and the Strong

Sunday\’s memorial for former Chief Justice Rose Elizabeth Bird, who died last month at 63 from complications of breast cancer, was more than a final tragic good-bye to (in the words of Rabbi Leonard Beerman) a \”woman of valor,\” the first woman to serve on the California high court.

Four Visitors

A full complement of interesting visitors met with the Jewish Journal in recent days, starting with the wife of a presidential candidate and continuing with a museum director from Berlin, an Israeli cabinet minister, and the first Arab woman to serve in Israel\’s parliament.

Changing Teens’ Thinking

The fresh-faced teenager looks like the girl next door until she displays her swastika tattoo in an episode of \”The Teen Files,\” which continues this week on UPN. \”I think the Holocaust was a good thing,\” she says, serenely. \”[Hitler] probably should have done more.\”

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