Posted on December 14, 2007 by balev
Reminiscences
Remembering my father, Michael H. Abbey, 27 years later
Remembering Harvey Milk, gay activist, assassin’s victim
Obituaries
Karen Elizabeth Margalit, 29, U.S., Israel, Sept. 26
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Posted on November 30, 2007 by balev
Obituaries
Samuel Steinfeld, 101, U.S., lawyer, state chief justice, Nov. 22
Sarit Weiss, 23, Israel, possible alcohol overdose, Nov. 23
Claire Flom, 82, U.S., philanthropist, Nov. 24
Herb Strauss, 78, U.S., ad exec, cantor, fund-raiser, Nov. 25
Mel Tolkin, 94, U.S., pioneering TV comedy writer, Nov. 26
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Posted on November 25, 2007 by balev
Samuel Steinfeld, 101, a former chief justice of Kentucky’s highest court, died Nov. 22, 2007.
“My dad was dedicated to anything that he went into,” whether it was the law, politics, civic leadership or his family, his son, James Steinfeld, told the Louisville Courier-Journal. “He loved the law, I can tell you that.”
Steinfeld was elected to [...]
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Posted on November 23, 2007 by balev
Jewish obituaries roundup 2
Paul Wasserman, 73, U.S., celebrity publicist, Nov. 18
Ido Zoldan, 29, Israel, contractor, terror victim, Nov. 19
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Posted on November 13, 2007 by balev
The words have not stopped flowing since author Norman Mailer, 84, died November 10, 2007, of renal failure. He has been called a Jewish pugilist, a towering writer with a matching ego, and nothing if not ambitious.
We call him the greatest Jewish-American novelist who never wrote about Jewish subjects. It was Mailer’s ambition to get [...]
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