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Culture Hal Willner, 64: The strangest, most beloved man in show business
Hal Willner might have been the most willfully strange person in show business. The music producer, who died on Monday at age 64 of complications of coronavirus, had a magic touch. He could get anyone to do anything: Tom Waits to sing an unrecognizable, railroad-rough version of “Heigh Ho” from Disney’s “Snow White”; R &…
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News Irving Carter, 76, British philanthropist who funded emergency medical services in Israel
(JTA) — If there was one institution with whom Irving Carter was most closely associated, it was Magen David Adom, the Israeli affiliate of the Red Cross. The vice president of MDA’s British fundraising arm, Carter’s donations over three decades funded the procurement of dozens of ambulances, 12 bikes, two mobile blood banks and a…
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News Michael Goldmeier, 73, led largest British Jewish health care agency
. (JTA) — When Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet became rabbi of London’s Orthodox Mill Hill Synagogue in 1993, he entered into a congregation rich with communal leaders. Among them was Michael Goldmeier, a man once described by the head of the British chief rabbi’s office as “one of the most prominent members of Anglo Jewry.” Schochet…
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Fast Forward Coronavirus kills 15 at Amsterdam’s Jewish old-age home
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — At least 15 people have died at the main Jewish elderly home in Amsterdam and another 22 are infected with the disease. COVID-19 began infecting Beth Shalom residents in the middle of March, just before management imposed a lockdown, a spokesperson for the medical administration Cordaan, which runs the home, told Het…
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Fast Forward Lakewood Jews raise thousands for family of kosher store employee who died of COVID-19
More than $15,000 has been raised in three days for the former employee of a Lakewood, N.J. kosher grocery store who died of the coronavirus. Lancelot Diaz-Hernandez, 20, passed away after spending two weeks in the hospital fighting complications from COVID and pneumonia, the Asbury Park Press reported. A GoFundMe page to aid with medical…
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News Bentzion Coopertstock, 63, Fed Hungry Pilgrims At Meron Celebrations
(JTA) — Bentzion Coopertstock was a father of 11 children, but they weren’t the only ones who knew him as abba. Cooperstock was well-known as the abba (Hebrew for “father”) of Meron, the northern Israeli city where thousands of pilgrims gather every year to celebrate the end of a plague that killed thousands of Jews…
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News Daniel Scully, 69, lived in Vegas but his heart was with the Cubs
(JTA) — Daniel Scully was a fanatic Cubs fan — so much so that it was his standard sign-off. Every time he hung up the phone or finished a text message, he would end with “Go Cubs.” Scully was born and raised in the Chicago suburbs, the middle child of three siblings. He worked for…
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News Aron Halpern, 90, survived the Holocaust and thrived in the United States
Editor’s note: The Forward, in collaboration with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Jewish media outlets around the world, is sharing obituaries of people in the Jewish community who have died from the coronavirus or ensuing complications. Learn more here. (JTA) — Aron Halpern barely survived the Holocaust before making his way to the United States,…
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