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Death announcements for the week of Aug. 9, 2024

by J. Staff August 9, 2024August 12, 2024
Ilana Schatz, seen in Bhutan in 2009, created campaigns such as the Passover "Bean of Affliction" and “Guilt Free Gelt Chanukah,” shedding light on child labor in the cocoa industry. (Courtesy David Lingren)
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Ilana Schatz, founder of Fair Trade Judaica, dies at 71

by Andrew Silow-Carroll August 1, 2024August 1, 2024
David and Rachel Biale at a pro-democracy demonstration in front of Israel's San Francisco consulate in July 2023. (Courtesy)
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David Biale, celebrated Jewish historian and cherished friend, dies at 75

by Sue Fishkoff July 29, 2024July 30, 2024
Martin Indyk, pictured in 2015. (Courtesy Brookings Institution)
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Martin Indyk, blunt diplomat who longed for Arab-Israeli peace, dies at 73

by Ron Kampeas July 26, 2024July 26, 2024
Rabbi Mark Bloom of Temple Beth Abraham explaining Jewish religion to Catholic school teachers participating in a 4-day  seminar sponsored by The Olga Lengyel Institute for Holocaust Studies and Human Rights. (Deborah Lauter)
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Happenings, comings & goings, honors and philanthropy — July 2024

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb July 26, 2024July 30, 2024
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Meet the fiercely Zionist French Jews who have created a ‘kibbutz’ on the Peninsula

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Donor who gave our late editor her kidney says ‘life is good’

by Sue Fishkoff July 23, 2024July 24, 2024
Peter Buxtun, a former employee of the U.S. Public Health Service, helped bring an end to the Tuskegee syphilis experiment. (Courtesy Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics)
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Former San Franciscan who exposed Tuskegee syphilis study dies at 86

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb July 17, 2024July 24, 2024

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