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News Lester Wax, 74, Vintage Car Enthusiast With International Reputation
(JTA) — Lester Wax loved cars, but his pride and joy was a 1931 LaSalle that looks like it could have belonged to Daddy Warbucks. Wax purchased the car in the summer of 1969 for $325 and restored it with help from his father, an auto mechanic who owned a couple of gas stations. The…
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News Alan Hurwitz, 79, Progressive Educator, Anti-Racism Advocate, Bank Robber
(JTA)— Alan Hurwitz led a complicated life. He was a dedicated anti-racism activist who spent years advocating for desegregation. He was a military reserve veteran who became a middle school teacher. And he was a prolific bank robber who was featured on “America’s Most Wanted” and spent two decades behind bars. Hurwitz, who died of…
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News Eva Konrad Hawkins, 90, Holocaust Survivor Who Designed Underwater Museum Exhibits
(JTA) – Against daunting odds, both historical and political, Eva Konrad Hawkins fulfilled her dream of becoming a scientist. At age 26, Konrad Hawkins fled her native Hungary with only the pack on her back, leaving her parents and brother behind to pursue her studies beyond what was available to her under the constraints of…
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News Bernard Israel, 90, Longtime Sexton Of Highland Park Synagogue
(JTA) — For more than 40 years, Bernard Israel served as the sexton of Ahavas Achim, an Orthodox synagogue in Highland Park, New Jersey. A man with a booming voice who would stand at the entrance greeting congregants, Israel was known for walking around during weekday prayers rattling a charity box to raise money for…
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News Sylvia Glenn, 98, Painter Who Befriended Margaret Mead
BOSTON (JTA) – As a young girl, Sylvia Glenn enjoyed making chalk drawings on the sidewalk outside her family’s Brooklyn apartment. As an adult, that creative impulse led to a degree in art, professional work at national magazines (including Life) and a lifelong passion for the arts that she pursued well into her 90s. Glenn…
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News Cyril Wick, 90, race car driver who ‘dressed British, thought Yiddish’
(JTA) — There was something exotic and debonair about Cyril Wick in the 1950s. Wick had just completed his service in Britain’s Royal Air Force and was studying engineering when he decided that he wanted to become a race car driver. In the years that followed, he would take part in prestigious races like that…
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News Ira Beer, 82, Dedicated His Retirement Years To Torah Study
(JTA) — In many ways, Ira Beer represented the ideal of the Orthodox Jewish scholar-businessman. Beer spent years working as a food service design consultant before opening his own firm, Beer Associates. But after selling his business in 2012, he devoted himself to Jewish study, meeting daily with a partner and finishing the entire Talmud…
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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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