Sephardim mourn Haham OBITUARY
SEPHARDI communities around Australia are in mourning over the passing of Haham Rabbi Dr Solomon Gaon — the spiritual leader of world Sephardi Jewry. He was 82. Dr Solomon Gaon,…
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Obituaries & funerals, 1995
6 stories in Sydney's papers
ANC leader’s “Jewish heart” OBITUARY
Johannesburg: SOUTH AFRICAN President Nelson Mandela declared next Sunday a day of national mourning for Housing Minister Joe Slovo, who died January 5, at the age of…
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February 14, JERUSALEM: Simple rites marked the funeral of Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah, who died of a heart attack in her room at…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Death of Peled, Galili
FORMER Israel Defence Force Major-General Mattityahu Peled and the inventor of the Galil assault…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →Death of Mannie Lesnie
COMMUNAL worker Emanuel Henry Lesnie died peacefully on June 1. He was 82. Known to family and friends as Mannie, he was a keen historian, traveller, writer and…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Death of fabled Diaspora matriarch
MONTREAL: Saidye Rosner Bronfman, the mother of one of the most renowned Jewish families in the Diaspora and considered by many…
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