Sam Sokol
By Sam Sokol
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News Felicia Friedman, 94, Holocaust Survivor Who Refused To Relinquish Her Faith
(JTA) — In 1939, 13-year-old Felicia Friedman was ripped from her family and sent to the Płaszow concentration camp outside Krakow, Poland, where she saw the infamous Nazi war criminal Amon Göth kill her 6-year-old cousin. After later hearing another teenaged inmate declare that after all she had witnessed she no longer believed in God,…
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News Neil Krieger, 78, Biotech Consultant Who Fought For Civil Rights
(JTA) — When Neil Krieger was a graduate student at Harvard University in the mid-1960s, he decided he had to do something about racism. Not content to watch from the sidelines as others battled for civil rights, he joined the Boston branch of the Congress of Racial Equality and began visiting local businesses, imploring them…
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News Coronavirus deals a blow to some of Israel’s ‘commuter’ immigrants
JERUSALEM — Prior to the outbreak of the current COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Beth Kava used to fly to the United States every month for at least two weeks. An American pediatric endocrinologist who immigrated to Israel and is now living in the West Bank settlement of Efrat, Kava runs a private medical practice in Margate,…
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News Suzy Levy, 66, Dedicated Nurse Who Refused To Retire
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Suzy Levy was the head nurse at the Ear, Nose and Throat Department at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Aviv. On April 27, she became the first Israeli medical worker to fall victim to the coronavirus pandemic, just two weeks after the virus claimed the life of her sister. Levy was 66…
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News Robert Ullian, 75, Peace Advocate Who Spray-Painted The Route Of The Green Line Across Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (JTA) — One dark evening in the 1990s, Robert Ullian snuck out of his home in the mixed Jewish and Arab neighborhood of Abu Tor and marked out the route of the Green Line, the boundary splitting pre-1967 Israel from the West Bank, with green spray paint. A longtime advocate of Israeli-Palestinian coexistence, Ullian…
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Fast Forward Ukraine to punish police chief who demanded list of Jewish citizens
The Ukrainian government has committed to disciplining a high-ranking police official who requested a list of all Jews in the western city of Kolomyya as part of an inquiry into organized crime. The official request to the head of Kolomyya’s Jewish community was sent out on February 18, according to a photograph of the document…
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News Saadya Ehrenpreis, 35, Defied Expectations With Determination And Joy
(JTA) — When Saadya Ehrenpreis was an infant, a doctor told his mother that he would “never walk, talk or amount to anything.” He wound up doing all three. Ehrenpreis was born with Down syndrom, but he was intensely determined. With the help of his family, he not only learned to walk and talk, but…
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News Elliot Samet, 69, Beloved Pediatrician Who Helped Establish Passaic Hatzolah
(JTA) — Every year on Purim, neighborhood children would line up outside the home of Elliot Samet in Passaic, New Jersey, waiting to show him their holiday costumes. “There would be a line up outside his house,” his friend George Matyjewicz told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “People just knocking on the door wanting to them…
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