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1,500 raise voices in song to remember Debbie Friedman

Rachel Heller February 16, 2011

As the piano struck the first notes of Debbie Friedman’s “Elohai N’Shama,” Cantor Linda Kates paused before the approximately 1,500 people gathered in the sanctuary at Valley Beth Shalom (VBS) and recalled a story about how the late singer-songwriter energized a crowd of Jewish students while teaching them the song.

Statesman Abba Eban, Dies at 87

Eric Silver November 21, 2002

The maverick Irish writer-politician Connor Cruise O\’Brien once celebrated Abba Eban, who died in Tel-Aviv Sunday at the age of 87, as \”the most brilliant diplomat of the second half of the 20th century.\”

‘Martyr for Peace’

Donald H. Harrison August 8, 2002

Flags of the United States and Israel draped the simple pine coffin of Marla Bennett, the 24-year-old student laid to rest on Monday, at a service that emphasized Jewish solidarity in the face of terrorism.