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Born Elliot Naomi Cohen, “Mamas and the Papas” singer Cass Elliot would have turned 70 years old today. [[READMORE]] On July 29, 1974, Elliot suffered a fatal heart attack after a performance at the London Palladium. Unfortunately, JTA was one of many news agencies who erroneously reported the cause of her death as choking on […]

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The weird thing about The New York Times and the Jews… is that the Grey Lady seems to fluctuate between obsession and avoidance. Sometimes in the same week. Case in point: The Times published a front-page story on whether Jewish voters are increasingly willing to dump President Obama over his handling of Israel-related issues — and […]

Juergen Corleis, who “hid” during World War II as a student in an elite SS training school and later became a filmmaker and journalist in his native Germany and Australia, died Aug. 11 in Sydney. He was 82. A 1985 film produced by Corleis, whose mother was Jewish, is a permanent feature at the Bergen-Belsen […]

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