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Obituaries

Gladys Gewirtz, who went from Juilliard to Camp Ramah to recording nursery rhymes for Jewish children to acting in a TV Holocaust film with Kirk Douglas, died April 14 at 84. [[READMORE]] Gewirtz, a graduate of the Juilliard School became the first music director of Camp Ramah. She and her sister, Roz Grossman, developed children’s […]

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Reginald Lewis, one of Montreal’s first Jewish optometrists, a jazz musician and the man believed to be the oldest living member of Bnai Brith Canada, died March 27 at 98. [[READMORE]] “I was saddened to learn of Reggie’s passing,” said Allan Adel, national chair of the B’nai Brith League League for Human Rights. “He was […]

Lee H. Javitch, who turned his father’s meat market into a supermarket chain of 30 stores and then sold it to an international conglomerate, died April 19 at 81. [[READMORE]] Javitch was active in Jewish organizations and had been on the boards of Jewish Theological Seminary of America, MAZON: A Jewish Response for Hunger, and […]

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