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Sydney · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 2002

37 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 2

Executive presents PowerPoint eulogy at mother's funeral

The Chaser · Friday 7 June 2002 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday: A corporate affairs manager from a leading Sydney company yesterday delivered a moving presentation at…

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Funeral scene

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 14 June 2002 · page 17

ON May 10, 2002 the Australian Jewish News reprinted an item from the Jerusalem Post titled “Palestinians fake funeral”, which…

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OBITUARY Gone to Creaner pastures Simon Crean Prominent Opposition figure

The Chaser · Friday 28 June 2002 · page 6

The Leader of the Federal Opposition, Simon Crean, took his own life on Friday evening after the results of internal focus group…

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OBITUARY

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 12 July 2002 · page 31

NEW YORK — Ann Landers, 83, who died recently, was a Jewish mother who “really wanted to make things better”, her daughter said…

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Instead of a celebration, a funeral in Los Angeles

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 12 July 2002 · page 5

LOS ANGELES — Last week’s attack which killed two Israelis at Los Angeles International Airport had an added tragic dimension: one of the…

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Bereavements / Obituary Obituary

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 19 July 2002 · page 33

ANTI-apartheid activist Norma Kitson passed away in Harare, Zimbabwe, recently after a battle with emphysema. Her funeral was attended by the Deputy…

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Death of Louis Kahan

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 26 July 2002 · page 3

ARTIST Louis Kahan, 97, has died in Melbourne. Bom in Vienna, he won the Archibald…

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Death of Chaim Potok

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 26 July 2002 · page 3

NEW YORK — Chaim Potok, 73, the celebrated novelist who depicted the Cnassidic world,…

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Obituary Anna Sonntag

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 9 August 2002 · page 34

ANNA Sonntag, who was born in Mihalyi, Hungary, in 1900, died in Sydney recently after surviving both World Wars and two revolutions, and emigrating at the age of 65…

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Obituary

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 16 August 2002 · page 33

SHLOMO Weinstein, who died recently, was a complicated and a complex man. Born in Yugoslavia in 1920 to Joseph and Elza Weinstein in an observant home, he…

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Obituary Grete Heilpern

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 20 September 2002 · page 33

MY friendly, non-judgmental grandmother is all around me. I use her bedside tables,…

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Obituary Arthur Gehl

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 4 October 2002 · page 33

ARTHUR Gehl was born in Berlin. At the age of seven he was singing in the choir of…

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Obituary

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 22 November 2002 · page 34

THERE is nothing more tragic than the death of a child, and especially one so young and just reaching her potential. Shelley had so much to look forward to. She…

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Obituary US Senator Paul Wellstone

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 29 November 2002 · page 33

IT seems to have passed without much notice here in Australia, but one of the great Jews of American politics died on October 25. Senator Paul Wellstone, the unabashedly…

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Obituary Flora Erna Davis

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 6 December 2002 · page 33

ON November 8 this year, the life of Flora Erna Davis OAM came to an end, a few weeks short of her 90th birthday. Although she was increasingly frail, she…

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Obituary

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 20 December 2002 · page 29

GEORGE Reinisch was born in Vienna, Austria, on April 28, 1938. At the age of 13 months George and his parents sought asylum in Shanghai, China, during the war period…

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Obituary

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 27 December 2002 · page 29

SIMON Rosenblat migrated to Australia with his parents from Kalisz, Poland, when he was six years old. A list of his academic achievements is…

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