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Scranton, Pa., into the national Rite Aid
chain, which now has 4,900 stores and last
year had $24 billion in sales, according to
the New York Times.
He was a member of the United Jewish
Communities-Federation board of trust-
ees and was a past national chair of the
United Jewish Appeal, one of UJC's pre-
decessor organizations. He also served as
chair of the Jewish Agency board of gov-
ernors and was a member of the executive
committee of the American Jewish Joint
Distribution Committee.
Grass was a chair of the board of gov-
ernors of Hebrew University in Jerusalem,
where a drug research center is named for
him, as well as a number of local Jewish
charities.
He was the past president of the
Harrisburg United Jewish Community, and
was the general chair of the Harrisburg
United Jewish Appeal and Israel Bonds
campaigns. He also was a member of
the Jewish Home of Greater Harrisburg's
board of directors.
Grass came from a poor family, but after
graduating from law school he married

into a prominent Pennsylvania family
that owned a regional grocery chain. After
the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1962
that pharmacies no longer had to charge
a minimum mandated price for drugs,
Grass bought the Thrif D Discount Center
in Scranton and within six years added 50
stores. In 1969 he took the company pub-
lic and changed the name to Rite Aid.

L.A. Club Scene's DJ AM

New York JTA — Family and close friends
attended the funeral for the Jewish celeb-
rity DJ AM.
The club disc jockey, whose real
name was Adam Goldstein, was buried
Wednesday at Hillside Memorial Park and
Mortuary, a Jewish cemetery in West Los
Angeles. Goldstein, 36, was found dead in
his New York apartment on Aug. 28.
A drug overdose is suspected as the
cause of Goldstein's death. He reportedly
struggled with drug addiction in the past.
Among the mourners at the funeral was
Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker, who
had performed with Goldstein under the
name TRVSDJAM. Both had been serious-

ly injured a year ago when the plane they
were traveling in following a performance
in South Carolina crashed on takeoff.
A memorial service for Goldstein at the
Hollywood Palladium is scheduled.

1918 Massacre Revealed

Sydney, Australia/JTA — Revelations of a
massacre in a Bedouin village in Palestine
in 1918 has tarnished one of Australia's
greatest military victories.
A new book revealed that Australians
joined New Zealand soldiers in the massa-
cre of dozens of Bedouin shortly after the
end of World War I.
The claim was corroborated in a audio
recording of an Australian soldier, Ted
O'Brien, found by Australian journal-
ist Paul Daley at the Australian War
Memorial.
In his book Beersheba, Daley recounted
O'Brien's recollection of the massacre of
between 40 and 200 Bedouin residents
of Surafend in 1918 in what was then
Palestine. He said about 200 Australian
and New Zealand troops, including some
from the famed Australian Light Horse

Brigades, murdered the locals.
The incident, which barely rates a men-
tion in the official record, tarnishes one
of Australia's greatest military victories
— the charge of the Light Horse Brigades
at Beersheba in 1917, a near death-defy-
ing assault on the Turks that allowed the
Allies to advance north to Jerusalem and
Damascus.
Last year Israeli President Shimon Peres
and his Australian counterpart, Michael
Jeffery, opened the Park of the Australian
Soldier in Beersheba commemorating
Australians who fought and died in the
Middle East.
The Surafend massacre was a revenge
attack for the murder of a Kiwi soldier
by a Bedouin on Dec. 9, 1918. No one was
charged but in 1921, Australia paid com-
pensation to the British for the destruc-
tion of the Bedouin village.
A spokesman for the Australian War
Memorial told Fairfax media on Saturday:
"The Anzac legend is an uplifting one but,
like all legends, there are some unfortu-
nate aspects. But this doesn't detract from
acts of heroism and bravery"

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