Obituaries
Jewish Journal
March 23, 2006
Aaron \”Red\” Finkel, who volunteered to become one of Israel\’s first fighter pilots during the War of Independence, died on Feb. 23 in Woodland Hills at the age of 86.
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Obituaries
Obituaries
Jewish Journal
March 16, 2006
Levia Pearl Abramowitz died Feb. 21. She is survived by her husband, Nathan; daughters Orit (Yitzchak) Cohen, Sharone and Judy; son, Harold (Lani); and grandchild, Harriet Theodore. Mount Sinai
Obituaries
Jewish Journal
March 9, 2006
Rabbi Zalman Ury, Day School System Leader, Dies at 92\nRabbi Zalman Ury, who dedicated more than 50 years to building Jewish education in Los Angeles and was rabbi emeritis at Young Israel of Beverly Hills, died last month at the age of 92.
Obituaries
Jewish Journal
February 23, 2006
Dr. Marcel Krauthammer, pulmonologist and adjunct professor of medicine for 23 years at UCLA and the Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, died from brain cancer on Jan. 17. He was 59.
We Mourn ‘First Lady’ of Civil Rights
Rabbi Marc Schneier
February 9, 2006
Coretta Scott King understood that a people who fight for their own rights are only as honorable as when they fight for the rights of all people. In this spirit, she championed the legacy of her late husband, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., in strengthening black-Jewish relations, in fighting for the civil rights of Jews and in supporting the issues and concerns of the Jewish community with the State of Israel in particular. Coretta Scott King, who died Jan. 30 at the age of 78, was honored Tuesday in a tribute attended by four presidents and an estimated 10,000 mourners.
My Friend, Shelley Winters
Aaron Kemp
February 2, 2006
The movie house was dark. A beautiful blonde actress smiled at me from the screen in the small Duluth, Minn., theater.
\”She\’s Jewish,\” my grandma Goldie whispered as we watched \”Knickerbocker Holiday.\”
That was my introduction to Shelley Winters, a \”Jewish movie star.\” The very concept was inconceivable to my 7-year-old mind. Not only was she Jewish, but she kept it no secret. That was very rare in the anti-Semitic years following World War II.
Wasserstein Chronicled Modern Women
Avigail Schwartz
February 2, 2006
Playwright Wendy Wasserstein, known for wry portrayals of strong, conflicted, contemporary women in prizewinning works such as \”The Heidi Chronicles,\” died this week in New York.
While not always overtly Jewish, her characters still bore the mark of the playwright\’s traditional Jewish upbringing in New York.
Later in her life, the feminist writer became a Jewish mother, although perhaps not in the way her own Jewish mother pictured.
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