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February 22, 2012

Aharon Davidi, one of Israel’s first paratroopers and a contemporary of Israeli founding fathers such as Moshe Dayan and Ariel Sharon, died Feb. 11 at 84. [[READMORE]] Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak described Davidi, a retired brigadier general, as “a leading combat officer, one of the molders of the IDF’s fighting force, who made an outstanding […]

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Rick Kaufman, a decidedly eccentric character both tolerated and viewed with affection by residents of an equally eccentric northern California town, died Feb. 18 at 63. [[READMORE]] Kaufman was described in local press accounts in Occidental as “the beloved town ‘greeter’” who “kept the town swept, cleaned the pocket parks of Occidental, and helped people […]

 Still smarting from Ryan Braun’s problems? Meet Naomi Kutin and Jason Goldstein. Kutin, the Jewish Standard reports, packs more muscle than you could imagine inside a 92-pound body: The Yeshivat Noam fifth-grader recently broke the world record for raw squatting by lifting 215 pounds — more than twice her own weight. The previous record for her […]

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