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of the late Alexander
Ashendorf, who also died
during the Holocaust.
Contributions may be
made to Friendship Circle,
6892 W. Maple Road, West
Bloomfield, MI 48322;
or to a Jewish charity of
one’s choice. A family
graveside service was held at
Workmen’s Circle Cemetery.
Arrangements by Hebrew
Memorial Chapel.

NANCY MAGID
GLANZ-
MILLER, 89, of
Hallandale Beach
and Deerfield
Beach, Fla.,
formerly of Windsor,
Ontario, and Detroit, passed
away on Jan. 7, 2021.
She was the devoted
mother of Ellen (the late
Rabbi Melvin J. Glazer)
Mossman-Glazer, Larry
(Marlene) Glanz, Debby
Drutz, Ronn (Philip
Freedman) Glanz; loving
grandmother of Matthew
(Jes Skillman) Mossman,
Jeremy Mossman, Devorah
Glanz, Brooke (Shlomo)
Peretz and Madison
(Michael) Hallen; proud
great-grandmother of
David Mossman, Mitchell
Mossman and Elazar Peret.
She leaves many loving
nieces, nephews, other
relatives and friends.
Mrs. Glanz-Miller was
the beloved wife of the
late David Abraham Glanz
and the late Aaron Miller;
cherished sister of Martin
(Sue Beale) Magid and Ralph
(Stevie) Magid; beloved
daughter of the late Ann
Magid and the late Benjamin
Magid.

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heldon Adelson,
the Jewish casino
magnate whose
philanthropy shaped
American and Israeli
politics, died Jan. 11, 2021,
at age 87.
Adelson, the chief execu-
tive of the Las Vegas Sands
Corporation, had an espe-
cially outsized influence
in Las Vegas, the seat of
his global gaming empire
where many Jewish institu-
tions are named after him
and his wife, Miriam.
Adelson was a megadonor
to Republican causes who,
in his final years, was a sup-
porter of former President
Donald Trump but report-
edly fell out of favor with
Trump over what Trump
erroneously thought were the
diminished size of his gifts,
according to Politico.
In one of his final big
purchases, Adelson report-
edly paid $67 million for
the mansion in Israel that
was the U.S. ambassador’s
residence until Trump
moved the U.S. Embassy
from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
He also was the main
funder behind Israel Hayom,
a free Israeli daily newspa-
per that is seen as favoring
Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu and
the Israeli right. Adelson
started Israel Hayom in 2007
to compete with Israel’s
other dailies, which are less
friendly to the right, and the
paper has been considered
instrumental to Netanyahu’s

continued success.
Born in Boston in 1933,
Adelson was known for
his deep and polarizing
involvement in local,
national and internation-
al politics, especially his
support for Israel and the
Republican Party.
His aggressive approach
resulted in conflict at times:
In 2019, a federal judge
ordered him to pay millions
of dollars in fees to the
National Jewish Democratic
Council for using what the
judge called “legal sadism”
to effectively put the group
out of business. Adelson
was a major donor to the
Republican Jewish Coalition.
During the coronavirus
pandemic, Adelson also
gained attention for being
magnanimous to the thou-
sands of employees of his
casinos, whom he kept
paying long after other Las
Vegas casinos cut off pay-
checks to their workers.
The extent of Adelson’s

giving to causes and institu-
tions he believed in has few
equals in American philan-
thropy. He was the largest
donor to Trump’s 2016 pres-
idential bid, chipping in $25
million, and was the nation’s
largest political donor in the
2012 election, at nearly $93
million.
He gave $127 million
to Birthright Israel since
2007 according to IRS fil-
ings cited by the Center
for Public Integrity. And
he was a major backer of
the Zionist Organization
of America and Israel’s
Yad Vashem Holocaust
Memorial Museum. Earlier
in his career, he was a major
funder of the American
Israel Public Affairs
Committee, until he shifted
his giving to more conserva-
tive pro-Israel organizations.
Adelson was also a major
supporter of drug addiction
programs, a speciality of his
wife Miriam, a physician. A
drug abuse treatment clinic
in Las Vegas is named for
the couple.
“Sheldon was the love of
my life,” Miriam Adelson
said in a statement Tuesday.
“He was my partner in
romance, philanthropy,
political activism and
enterprise.
“He was my soulmate.
To me — as to his children,
grandchildren, and his
legions of friends and
admirers, employees and
colleagues — he is utterly
irreplaceable.”

Sheldon Adelson, Megadonor
to Israel and GOP, Dies at 87

SOUL

OF BLESSED MEMORY

MANDEL NGAN/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES VIA JTA

Sheldon Adelson listens to President
Donald Trump address the Israeli
American Council National Summit
2019 at the Diplomat Beach Resort
in Hollywood, Fla., Dec. 7, 2019.

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