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‘Fiddler on the Roof’ lyricist Sheldon Harnick Z”L dies at 99

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The Songwriters Hall of Fame was saddened to learn of the passing of 1972 inductee and 1990 Johnny Mercer Awardee, Sheldon Harnick. Born and raised in Chicago, Sheldon Harnick began studying the violin while in grammar school. After serving...
Publicity photo of singer/actor Ed Ames from the NBC television program “Daniel Boone.” Credit: Wikipedia. | Wikipedia

‘He was an ardent, farbrente Zionist,’ Mort Klein says of Ed Ames

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Some 15 or 20 years ago, Mort Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America, saw a man who looked a lot like entertainer Ed Ames at an American Israel Public Affairs Committee...
Portrait of former Supreme Court Justice, Jacob Turkel, at his home in Jerusalem, on Jan. 25, 2023. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Former Israeli Supreme Court Justice Jacob Turkel dies

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Former Israeli Supreme Court Justice Jacob Turkel died on Monday at the age of 88. Born in 1935 in Tel Aviv to Austrian immigrants. He graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s law school in...
Blossoming Japanese cherry trees. Credit: Pixabay.

Kyiv honors Jewish Federations of North America for war-relief support

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The Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) is among groups and countries recognized in Kyiv and honored by the planting of seven Japanese cherry trees in the Ukrainian capital. The countries include the United States,...
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and his mother, Fruma Gallant. Source: Twitter.

Defense Minister Gallant’s mother, a Holocaust survivor, dies at 88

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Fruma Gallant, the mother of Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, died on May 11 at the age of 88. Fruma, née Segal, was born in Poland and survived World War II and the Holocaust. She...

Montenegro Jewish community to inaugurate Torah scroll on Lag B’Omer

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During Lag B’Omer last year in Montenegro, which is roughly east of Rome across the Adriatic Sea, the Jewish community was eager to gather around a bonfire and put the pandemic behind it. This...
Rabbi Harold Kushner in his office on Jan. 5, 2021. Credit: Cult of Maximilian via Wikimedia Commons.

Rabbi Harold Kushner, 88, author of ‘When Bad Things Happen to Good People’

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Rabbi Harold Kushner, bestselling author and rabbi of 24 years at the Conservative Temple Israel Natick, Mass., where he earned the title rabbi laureate, died on April 27. He was 88 years old. “He was...
Yehonatan Geffen. Source: Twitter.

Israeli cultural icon Yehonatan Geffen dies at 76

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Israeli literary, musical and overall cultural icon Yehonatan Geffen died on Wednesday aged 76. “It is hard to imagine the existence of Israeli art, our anthems, the worlds of literature and theater without his unique...
Rina Dee (center) and fellow volunteers in an orchard at Moshav Bar Giora, located between Jerusalem and Beit Shemesh. Credit: HaShomer HaChadash.

Hashomer Hachadash mourns the loss of volunteer Rina Dee

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Weeks before Palestinian terrorists murdered her, 15-year-old Rina Dee was in a field in Moshav Bar Giora with other young volunteers on behalf of the HaShomer HaChadash movement, pruning vineyards to make room for seedlings. The HaShomer...
Ben Ferencz, 27, as a prosecutor at Nuremberg, Germany, 1947. Source: YouTube.

Last surviving Nuremberg trial prosecutor dies at 103

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Benjamin (“Ben”) Ferencz, the last surviving prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials, passed away on April 7 at the age of 103. According to The New York Times, he died at an assisted-living facility in Boynton Beach,...