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Obituaries
Gordon Davidson, director and producer, dies at 83
Gordon Davidson, the Brooklyn-born director and producer who played a key role in transforming Los Angeles from a perceived cultural backwater into a creative center for innovative and controversial plays, died Oct. 2.
Remembering Chuck Boxenbaum
On Sept. 21, a great cedar fell. Charles Howard Boxenbaum was one of the quiet leaders not just of Los Angeles Jewry but of humanity.
Charles Boxenbaum, banking exec, philanthropist, 87
Charles (Chuck) Howard Boxenbaum, real estate and banking executive and philanthropist, died Sept. 21 of natural causes. He was 87.
Joseph Sitruk, former chief rabbi of France, dies at 71
Joseph Sitruk, who served as chief rabbi of France for more than two decades, has died.\n\n
Obituaries: Week of September 23rd, 2016
Obituaries: Week of September 23rd, 2016.
Edmund D. Edelman: Great man passing
Toward the end of the film “To Kill A Mockingbird,” Alabama lawyer Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck) has just lost his case defending a black man, Tom Robinson, who had been unjustly accused of raping a white girl.
Former L.A. Supervisor Ed Edelman, advocate for liberal causes, dies at 85
Ed Edelman, a champion of liberal politics in Los Angeles who spent two decades on the L.A. County Board of Supervisors, died on Sept. 12 at age 85. His death followed a long battle with atypical Parkinson’s disease.
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