July 1, 2009
Professor Nathan H. Shapira, a professor of Industrial Design and Interior Design at UCLA since 1963, died May 16 at his home in Santa Monica. He was 80 years old and a survivor of the Holocaust in Romania.
One of the first people I met when I started working at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot in 1962, as head of its press office, was Ephraim Katzir.
Rabbi Gerald I. Wolpe, Rabbi Emeritus of Har Zion Temple, died Monday, May 18 after a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer.
The world has lost one of its greatest fighters for human rights. Los Angeles has lost a great community leader. I have lost my closest and oldest friend and comrade.
Si Frumkin died Friday at the age of 78, with cancer as the cause of death.
Actress Bea Arthur, famous for her roles in the television sitcoms "Maude" and "The Golden Girls," has died. Arthur died Saturday in her Los Angeles home, reportedly from cancer. She was 86.
The great Rabbi Leo Baeck, for whom our congregation is named, taught that “optimism becomes a demand for the heroism of man, for his moral will to struggle. It is an optimism which strives to realize morality in practice.”
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