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‘Patriarch’ of the St. Louis community missing, feared dead

The man known as the patriarch of the Jewish community in St. Louis is missing and feared dead at 102 years old.

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Leader in the Soviet Jewry movement, Si Frumkin, dies

Si Frumkin, a Dachau survivor who founded the Southern California Council for Soviet Jews, died, according to the LA Times. He was 71.

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Philanthropist, Pratt, dies

Richard Pratt, who fled Poland as a child on the eve of the Holocaust and went on to become one of Australia’s richest men and biggest Jewish philanthropists, died Tuesday at age 74.

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