Obituaries
Obituaries
As a journalist in the Yom Kippur War, I came upon a Patton tank company refueling behind the Israeli lines in Sinai during the last week of fighting.
\”I have a philosophy very compatible with being a banker,\” he told a Seattle Times reporter in 1994. \”I believe that people should pay their debts. My debt to society is so great that if I were to live 100 years I could not completely begin to repay it.\”
Israel and the Los Angeles Jewish community have lost one of their most tireless supporters and good friends. Scott Bauer, senior pastor of the Church on the Way in Van Nuys, succumbed to a ruptured aneurysm on Oct. 24. He was 49.
Rosalind Glaser Peters died on Jan. 6, 2002, at the age of 92.
Mordecai Richler, a Canadian Jewish literary giant, died of cancer Monday. He was 70.
Legendary filmmaker Stanley Earl Kramer, best known for films such as the classic western \”High Noon,\” died on Feb. 19 of pneumonia. He was 87.