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Sydney · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1985

46 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 3

Death of Scholar

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 11 July 1985 · page 11

NEW YORK: One of the world’s foremost scholars on ArabJewish relations,…

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Death of Designer

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 18 July 1985 · page 15

LONDON: The sudden death of Barry Kay, at the age of 53, has robbed the London theatre of one of its…

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Obituary

Tribune · Wednesday 31 July 1985 · page 13

One of Australia's most able radical critics of the media, BILL BONNEY, died on July 19. Bill had come to media studies…

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Obituary: Phillip Chown

Tharunka · Tuesday 6 August 1985 · page 5

Phillip Chown, a man who describes himself as SU junkie with a history of six years addiction, retired from the position of…

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Obituary

Tribune · Wednesday 7 August 1985 · page 21

With the death of Judah Waten, Australia has lost an outstanding fighter for human progress. His loss will be seriously felt in many fields…

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Death of Jewish Author

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 8 August 1985 · page 3

One of Australia’s most politically controversial writers, Judah Waten, died on his 74th birthday in his Melbourne…

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Obituary

Tribune · Wednesday 14 August 1985 · page 13

TOM JONES died of a heart attack at the age of 71. Born in Hobart during the beginning of the first world war, Tom…

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Probe into death of terrorists after 1984 bus hijack

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 15 August 1985 · page 5

The special team investigating the death of two terrorists following the hijacking of an Ashkelon-bound bus in April last year has presented its…

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Death of financier Albin won’t halt police inquiry

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 15 August 1985 · page 6

TEL AVIV. - The police investigation into the financial affairs of Michael Albin is to continue despite the death of the financier. Albin, 41,…

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60,000 mourn death of the Steipeller

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 22 August 1985 · page 6

Rabbi Ya’acov Israel Kanievsky, known as the Steipeller, regarded as a leading authority on Halacha, died on August 9, aged 87. He was buried…

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Charge of ‘violent behaviour’ after death of two terrorists captured in bus hijack Army court to try general

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 22 August 1985 · page 3

Chief Infantry and Paratroop Officer Tat-Aluf (Brig.-Gen.) Yitzhak Mordechai is to be brought before an IDF disciplinary court on…

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Obituary

Tribune · Wednesday 4 September 1985 · page 13

BARNEY KERR died last week aged 68. Raised in the militant mining town of Captains Flat, Barney's…

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OBITUARY Ernie Campbell

Tribune · Wednesday 4 September 1985 · page 13

Ernie Campbell, who died in Sydney during the night of August 24-25 at the age of 72, was a communist from the early 1930s…

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The Rav Kook’s topical message On the 50th anniversary of the death of Rav Kook, Moshe Kohn finds that the great rabbi's views on Messianic Redemption are very much on the agenda

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 5 September 1985 · page 13

“RAV KOOK is alive and well,” say. apostles of this country’s first Ashkenazi chief rabbi, Avraham Yitzhak Hacohen Kook. As a matter of fact…

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Obituary

Tribune · Wednesday 11 September 1985 · page 13

I write in memory of VINCE MOODIE who died earlier on this year. Vince sold Tribune for…

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Death of Professor Julius Stone Israel loses a champion

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 12 September 1985 · page 14

The death last week of Professor Julius Stone lost for Israel one of its greatest supporters and defenders. For more than 40…

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Obituary

Tribune · Wednesday 18 September 1985 · page 13

The sudden death of MARY MILLAR at her home in Brisbane on August 1 came as a shock to her many…

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Funeral routing

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 26 September 1985 · page 4

It was depressing and galling, following a funeral service at the Chevra Kadisha, to attempt to keep…

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Obituary

Tribune · Wednesday 9 October 1985 · page 13

The Australian anti-apartheid and anti-racist movement suffered a grievous loss on Wednesday, September 18, when JIM GALE,…

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S is for: SCHWARZENEGGER, Arnold Science Cafe, death of cockroach in, from eating chips

Tharunka · Monday 14 October 1985 · page 6

Dear Eds, I have dined regularly at the Science Cafe for some time. It surprised me to read, therefore, your scathing…

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