Sam Zell, Jewish billionaire whose media purchase tarnished a legendary career, dies at 81
The son of Holocaust survivors, Zell bought the Tribune Co. in 2007 and filed for bankruptcy a year later
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Fast Forward Jews are asked to set a place for arrested journalist Evan Gershkovich at Passover Seders
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