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Obituaries & funerals, 1999

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Obituary: Bronwyn Bishop

The Chaser · Friday 30 July 1999 · page 4

The Chaser is sad this week to note the timely passing of Senator Bronwyn Bishop, Minister for Aged Care. Sen. Bishop was rushed to hospital…

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Obituary Fredda Brilliant

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 30 July 1999 · page 42

AN actress who also worked as a scriptwriter and singer, Fredda Brilliant was a self-taught sculptor who gained an international reputation…

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The Australian Jewish News · Friday 13 August 1999 · page 39

THE Maroubra community was in a deep state of mourning at the passing of Shlomo Werner, a communal stalwart who was well loved and greatly respected…

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Obituary General Horvath

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 13 August 1999 · page 37

HUNGARIAN General Horvath, a member of the Righteous Among the Nations who played a role in saving the lives of almost 10,000 Jews during the Holocaust, has…

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Teen Heart Throb Dies (45 years later) Obituary Brian Henderson (1823-1999)

The Chaser · Monday 23 August 1999 · page 4

Sydney's most influential newsreader, Brian Henderson has died in his Beecroft home after his hair…

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The Australian Jewish News · Friday 3 September 1999 · page 41

SYLVIA Leah Super, who died recently, came from two eminent Melbourne families, the Rothstadts and the Cohens. Her grandfather was the communal…

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The Australian Jewish News · Friday 3 September 1999 · page 41

LAWYER and artist Freda Fineman died in her Manhattan apartment recently. She was the fourth of Rose and Lasar Siutzkin’s seven children, bom in Melbourne on December 23,…

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Obituary: Peter Collins

The Chaser · Thursday 9 September 1999 · page 5

Following a particularly bad decade Peter Collins has died at an unknown age. His death was, much like his birth, largely unnoticed…

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The Australian Jewish News · Friday 17 September 1999 · page 41

FORMER B’nai B’rith International president Philip Klutznick, who died recently, will be remembered as an innovative thinker and a bold doer, a man who did much to build the face…

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OBITUARY Mark "Tubby" Taylor Conservative stooge and alleged cricketer, 1964-1999

The Chaser · Thursday 23 September 1999 · page 4

The Australian cricket community was slightly perturbed to learn last night that Mark Taylor, the Australian of the Year for…

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Obituary Samuel Cohen

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 8 October 1999 · page 40

A LONGTIME Jewish professional leader in New York, Rabbi Samuel Cohen, died recently following a brief illness. He was 66. Cohen held executive positions with many…

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OBITUARY Richard "Wilko" Wilkins Television presenter and poodle impersonator, 1952-1999

The Chaser · Friday 8 October 1999 · page 5

The Entertainment! industry is facing a major employment crisis after the death of Richard Wilkins yesterday…

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OBITUARY Daniel Johns 1979-1999 Juvenile rocker, skinny little fucker

The Chaser · Monday 25 October 1999 · page 5

Johns, who was the only even remotely talented member of the band silverchair, died last week after his anorexia got out of…

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obituary Chaser Feature Obituary His Holiness Pope John Paul Ii Obituary Karol Woltyja (Pope John Paul Ii 1920-1999

The Chaser · Thursday 4 November 1999 · page 5

The back streets of Vatican City are a lonely, squalid place to die. But it was here, in Via Guelfa, in this tiny…

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community bereavements JN Obituary

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 12 November 1999 · page 39

NEW YORK: Rabbi Julie Spitzer, a leader in domestic violence prevention, rabbinic sexual misconduct, and gay and lesbian inclusion in Jewish life, died recently of ovarian cancer. She…

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community JN business directory & classifieds Obituary

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 12 November 1999 · page 38

A CHAMPION of US First Amendment cases and an advocate for the rights of people with disabilities, Stanley Fleishman died aged 79…

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Obituary Haves Gordon

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 19 November 1999 · page 38

WE have the notorious Senator McCarthy to thank for one of the greatest enrichments that Australian theatre has ever experienced. Bom in Boston on February 25, 1920, Hayes…

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OBITUARY Puff Daddy World's first black white-boy rapper, 1970's - 1999

The Chaser · Friday 3 December 1999 · page 5

The community at large breathed a sigh of relief on Monday when samplemaster Puff Daddy's reign of terror came to a bloody end in…

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Obituary Jacobo Timerman

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 10 December 1999 · page 38

JACOBO Timerman, a former Argentine political prisoner and lifelong Zionist, died here recently at the age of 76 after suffering a heart attack…

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Obituary Eric Smorgon

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 17 December 1999 · page 34

AFTER fleeing Stalinist Russia and landing in Melbourne on a converted cattle ship, Eric Smorgon went on to build the family business into an Australian industrial empire…

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