Leonard Pines, the longtime owner of Hebrew National Kosher Foods, perhaps the most well- known kosher food company in the United States, died July 4 in Florida at the age of 90. Pines developed the Lower East Side deli meat business he inherited from his father, who emigrated from Romania.
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