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Hamas presented the Tabor rifle that it claimed belonged to IDF Lt. Hadar Goldin. Credit: Twitter

Hamas releases pics of fallen IDF soldier’s rifle nine years after his death

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Hamas has released photos purportedly showing the rifle of IDF Lt. Hadar Goldin, who was killed in the Gaza Strip nine years ago today, i24NEWS reported on Tuesday. The bodies of Goldin and IDF Staff Sgt. Oron...
Photo: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

‘Pee-wee’s Playhouse’ star Paul Reubens dies at age 70

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“Please accept my apology for not going public with what I’ve been facing for the last six years,” a post on Paul Reubens’s Instagram account noted on Monday. “I have always felt a huge amount of...
Relatives and friends attend the funeral of Holocaust survivor David (“Dugo”) Leitner in Moshav Nir Galim in Israel on July 27, 2023. Photo by Liron Moldovan/Flash90.

Funeral takes place for Holocaust survivor David ‘Dugo’ Leitner, 94

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David “Dugo” Leitner was born in Hungary in 1930 to his parents, Meir and Golda Leah, and raised in an Orthodox home. In March 1944, invading Nazi Germans corralled his family to the ghetto;...
James “Jim” Crown. Source: Screenshot.

James Crown, major donor to Jewish causes, dies in car crash at age 70

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A Jewish leader in philanthropy, business and politics died while participating in a race at a motorsports park in Aspen, Colo. James “Jim” Crown, 70, had led his family’s investment firm as CEO and inherited $10.32 billion...
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...
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...
Director Norman Jewison and actor Chaim Topol (“Tevye”) share a laugh on the set of the 1971 film “Fiddler on the Roof.” Credit: Courtesy of Zeitgeist Films.

Chaim Topol, of ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ fame, dies at age 87

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Israeli actor Chaim Topol, who gained international fame for his portrayal of Tevye in the stage and cinematic versions of the “Fiddler on the Roof,” died on March 9 in Tel Aviv after a...
Joe Woolf, part of the Machel foreign-fighters unit during Israel’s 1948 War of Independence. Credit; Courtesy of the Woolf family.

Joe Woolf, 94, helped connect fellow veterans of Israel’s 1948 War of Independence

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Joe Woolf, a South African Jewish volunteer in the foreign-fighters unit Machal who conducted research that helped preserve that group’s legacy for 75 years after Israel’s War of Independence, died on Feb. 28 at...
Hamid Nouri on trial in Sweden on May 2, 2022 Credit: Voice of America via Wikimedia Commons.

Iran’s ‘death corridor’ is open for business

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Iran thrust its way back into the news cycle last week as U.S. President Joe Biden embarked on a four-day tour of the Middle East beginning in Israel, but arguably, the most significant event...
Roozbeh Farahanipour, a former student activist, leader in the movement for an Iranian cultural renaissance and chairman of the Marz-e Por Gohar (“Glorious Frontiers”) resistance movement, (left) with Iranian activist Frank (Faryar) Nikbakht. Credit: Courtesy.

Frank Nikbakht, Iranian American Jewish activist, dies at 68

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Frank (Faryar) Nikbakht, an Iranian Jewish community activist and expert on anti-Semitism propagated by the Iranian regime died in Los Angeles on June 12. He was 68 years old. Iranian Jewish community members in Los...