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…Arts & Entertainment Festival Of Books Need suggestions for finding the perfect book for the readers on your Chanukah gift list? Check out these recent releases! Gail Zimmerman Arts & Entertainment Editor Sandee Brawarsky Special to the Jewish News FICTION Philip Roth is back this season with his 30th book, again visiting themes of aging and mortality. The Humbling (Houghton Mifflin), a short novel, is the story of a leading stage actor ...…
…Arts & Entertainmen Festival Of Books from page 71 MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY Michael Chabon, in a series of interlinked autobiographical essays, Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father and Son (Harper), reflects on sexuality, nostalgia, innocence, hypocrisy, regret, love, divorce and more. He captures small moments in all their possibility, in his own childhood as well as his present life. He writes of hanging out with hi...…
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…Family Focus Never Too Late 92-year-old bar mitzvah "boy" celebrates with service at Danto. Bill Carroll Special to the Jewish News W hen Harry R. Glassman of Oak Park was 13 in 1930, he was working on an ice wagon in Los Angeles helping to support his five sisters and three brothers. He never attended Hebrew school, and was too busy to even think about a bar mitzvah. Glassman, 92, made up for it Nov. 23 by becoming a bar mitzvah at a mor...…
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…wife of 67 years, Elaine R. Rogan of Sacramento; his daughter, Gloria Ruth Rogan of San Francisco; his son, Gerald Neal (Pauline) Rogan of Sacramento. He was predeceased by his parents; his sister Rose Roginsky (Walters); and his son, Roger Alan Rogan. Contributions may be made to Cigar Family Charitable Foundation, www. cigarfamilycharitablefoundation.com . Interment in Myrtle Hill Memorial Park Cemetery in Tampa, Fla. To sign the Rogan famil...…
…Obituaries Obituaries from page 101 PAUL SHAWN, 92, of Birmingham, died Dec. 2, 2009. He is survived by his wife, Freda Shawn; sons and daughters-in-law, David and Donna Shawn of Rochester Hills, Ronald and Nancy Shawn of West Bloomfield, Lawrence and B.J. Shawn of Petosky, Neil and Michelle Shawn of Petosky; sister- in-law, Blanche Shawn; grandchildren, Renee and Jeff Barratt, Micah and Martha Shawn, Rebecca and Bradley Kranig, Chase Shawn...…
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