Entries tagged as ‘california’
IMH Editor’s Note: Michael B. Klein, 37, an ultra-successful businessman, and his daughter Talia Klein, 13, were killed in the crash of their private plane over a remote spot in Panama earlier this week. Michael Klein, who headed a hedge fund and was an early beneficiary of the first-wave Internet boom, has been written about by dozens of media outlets. Talia, however, has rarely gotten more than a footnote in these stories. In My Heart will focus on Talia in this story, including words from people who knew and loved her. Read a tribute to Talia Klein here (with a great photo by her uncle) by a family friend.
Talia Klein, 13, an award winner for her horsemanship for several years, and the daughter of millionaire businessman Michael B. Klein, died Dec. 24, 2007, in a private plane crash (more…)
Categories: Americans · Athletes · Child · Young
Tagged: california, crash, equitation, horse, hunter, jumper, klein, michael, panama, plane, riding, santa-barbara, talia, talia-klein
Karen Elizabeth Margalit, 29, a California-born olah to Israel in 1996 who died September 26, 2007, from an apparent drug overdose and was unidentified for two months, has been identified and reburied under her name.
Margalit became addicted to tranquilizers and painkillers after suffering a slipped disc. She was treated at drug rehabilitation and psychiatric centers. She lived on the streets of Tel Aviv. When she died in September in a Tel Aviv parking lot, police were unable to identify her, and she was buried anonymously at Kibbutz Revadim on Nov. 12. No one attended her funeral. (more…)
Categories: Americans · Israelis · Young
Tagged: addict, alcoholism, california, drugs, Jewish, obituary, tel aviv, woman
November 20, 2007 · 1 Comment
By Bob Keisser
Notes on a scorecard:
If imitation is the highest form of flattery, then I hope Allan Malamud is smiling in some heavenly deli, surrounded by pastrami, plasma big screens and a room full of friends who are laughing in-between snorts about Barry Bonds and O.J. Simpson …
Malamud was the much-beloved sports columnist at the Los Angeles Herald Examiner who passed away 11 years and two months ago. More relevant, today would have been his 65th birthday, and he would have celebrated by trying to hit the pick six at Hollypark or reveling in the continued hysteria of an odd college football season … (more…)
Categories: Americans · Athletes · Hollywood · Journalists · Writers
Tagged: california, columnist, journalism, newspaper, sports
