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July 26, 2011
Freddi Sue Finegood, Community Leader, 60
Freddi Sue Finegood, Jewish community leader and businesswoman who called both Los Angeles and New York home, died peacefully at her home in New York on July 25 after a long illness. She was 60.
Amy Winehouse, British singer, 27
Amy Winehouse, the talented but troubled chanteuse, was found dead in her north London flat on July 23. She was 27.
Double down
If we measure time using the weekly Torah portions, then we can safely say, as we finish the last parasha in the book of Bamidbar, that we are approaching the end of the yearly Torah reading cycle; that means the holiday season is not far away.
Gogol, Chekhov … Sholem Aleichem — Russia’s other great author
Despite a long life of distinguished writing, it’s not without irony that Sholem Aleichem today is probably known to most people as the guy who wrote the story behind “Fiddler on the Roof.”
A diplomatic partnership
When Jacob Dayan — along with his wife, Galit, and their three children — arrived in Los Angeles in October 2007 to take up his post as Israel’s consul general for the southwestern United States, L.A. got two activist diplomats for the price of one.
Israeli, Jewish groups team to help famine-plagued Somalia
An Israeli aid group and Canadian Jewish federations are teaming to help ease the famine in Somalia.
Photographs spill “The Secret Life of Swimmers” onto Culver City streets
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