New York (dpa) – Hungarian-born actress Zsa Zsa Gabor is to be buried in a cemetery in Budapest after a funeral in Los Angeles, her widower told dpa Wednesday. Gabor, who died last week of a heart attack in Los Angeles aged 99, had wanted to travel to the city of her birth before she
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International, Obituaries & memorials, USALOS ANGELES — Debbie Reynolds, an actress who sang and danced her way into film history opposite Gene Kelly in the classic 1952 musical “Singin’ in the Rain,” a movie that helped turn her into a sweetheart of American film, has died. She was 84. Reynolds, who was a major collector of Hollywood memorabilia and
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Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBenjamin Buchsbaum rescued Jews from the Holocaust by offering to sponsor them, including housing some in his home. Photos courtesy Regie Roth U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum acquisitions curator Fred Wasserman came to New Jersey to retrieve letters for an upcoming exhibit on the American response to the Holocaust. During World War II, Benjamin Buchsbaum saved
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International, Jewish History, USAPart of stone structure dating from time of First Temple was reduced to mud due to heavy rainfall, burying five ancient gravestones By Times of Israel staff Collapsed wall in Tel Dan dating to First Temple era, 27 December, 2016 (Zvika Tzuk, Israel Parks and Nature Authority) Part of a Biblical-era wall in the Tel
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Jewish History, Middle EastNot many authors can claim to have reinvented an entire genre but Richard Adams, who has died aged 96, did just that with “Watership Down”, which became one of the biggest-selling childrens’ books of all time. He took the ancient theme of talking animals, but instead of cutesy, this was cruel and savage, like nature
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Obituaries & memorialsBy Barry Shaw HERZLIYA, Israel — One of the false mantras of the so-called Palestinian leadership and their BDS supporters is that they are being ethnically cleansed by the brutal Zionist occupiers. This despite that the Arab population is increasing by leaps and bounds and thanks to Israel their health and medical care has improved
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The Conversations We Never Had by Jeffrey H. Konis; Outskirts Press; © 2016; ISBN 9781478-767299; 197 pages; $13.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – On the back cover of this book is the listing “Fiction: Historical” and that, perhaps, constitutes the author’s greatest regret. If he could have gone back in time, the listing
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish HistoryGuatemala’s civil war ended 20 years ago, on Dec. 29, 1996. The conflict between rebel groups and state security forces lasted nearly four decades and took an estimated 200,000 lives — the great majority of them indigenous Mayans. It was especially hard on Mayan women, who lost loved ones, suffered sexual abuse and other atrocities,
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International, Jewish HistoryLOS ANGELES — Ricky Harris, a comedian known for both his racy stand-up act and his appearances in family-friendly fare such as the TV series “Everybody Hates Chris,” died Monday, his manager said. He was 54. The cause was not immediately known. But Harris’ manager, Cindy Ambers of Art/Work Entertainment, said Harris had suffered a
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Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & BroadcastLOS ANGELES — Actress and writer Carrie Fisher, who rose to global fame as the trail-blazing intergalactic heroine Princess Leia in the “Star Wars” franchise and later went on to establish herself as an author and screenwriter with an acerbic comic flair, has died. Fisher suffered a heart attack on Friday during a flight to
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Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & BroadcastAs a woman, astrophysicist Vera Rubin had to fight just to get access to a telescope. What she saw when she did further rattled conventions: galaxies that were rotating more quickly than predicted by the laws of physics. This movement, she concluded, could be explained if the universe was filled with a type of mass
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Obituaries & memorials, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAThe Person in the Parasha: Discovering the Human Element in the Weekly Torah Portion by Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, OU Press, Maggid Books, Jerusalem, © 2016, ISBN 978-1-59264-462-9, p. 624, $29.95 by Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California – Even a cursory look at the catalogue of Jewish book publishers shows a great propensity for
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish ReligionAftermath by Allison Nazarian, Allie Girl Publishing, 2016, ISBN 978-0-9828922-2-0, pgs. $9.99 Kindle, $14.99 paperback. By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — In general most of us shy away from ultimatums or at least prefer not to be tested by a “now or never” choice. This was how Allison Nazarian explained her decision to write
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Eva Trieger, Jewish HistoryVideo of rabbis and kaffiyeh-clad Muslims dancing to Hasidic songs in Arab monarchy goes viral By Times of Israel staff The small Muslim monarchy of Bahrain hosted a ceremony to celebrate the first night of Hanukkah, and the resulting video of kaffiyeh-wearing sheikhs dancing with Orthodox Jews to Hasidic music has been going viral on
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