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Former Yedioth Ahronoth and Ha’aretz journalist Hedda Boshes, one of Israel’s first TV critics, died April 15 at 79. (Update – corrects English spelling of her name. Thanks to her friend and colleague Sylvie Keshet (see below) for the heads-up.) [[READMORE]]  Boshes was born into one of the founding families of Gedera and later moved […]

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Dennis Kay, mayor of the Hudson Valley, NY, town of Airmont, which reached a settlement with the US government in 2011 over a lawsuit over exclusionary zoning, died April 15 at 65. [[READMORE]] He was elected to the Airmont Village Board of Trustees in 2002 and was mayor from 2007. Village Trustee Veronica Boesch told […]

IMAGE: Signed photo of Charlie Chaplin 1925, without signature mustache/makeup. Whether through our Jewish celebrity blog 6 Degrees No Bacon, a Matisyahu beard-shaving incident blogged by yours truly and relegated ‘breaking news’ status, or TV recaps from our CEO/editor in chief, JTA has established a habit for reporting Jewish celebrity news. It would therefore seem off […]

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