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20 of the 18,000 people who died of COVID-19 in US this week

Wednesday marked the deadliest day in the pandemic so far, with nearly 3,500 deaths reported. Below are the names and brief stories of 20 people recently killed by the virus including the newly elected Speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, a pioneering surgeon, and the first Black country superstar. Charley Pride played music. William Norwood performed live-saving surgeries. Rosemary Shinohara worked long nights at the newsroom, picked blueberries, ran triathlons, and read mystery novels. Veronica Gutierrez, age 29, liked puzzles. They all died of COVID-19, their deaths reported this week amid a tragic and unprecedented surge in infections and fatalities across the US. The US recorded nearly 18,000 COVID-19 deaths in the last seven days alone.

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Theodore Mann, 92, former chairman of Presidents Conference and early critic of Israeli occupation

Theodore Mann, 92, former chairman of Presidents Conference and early critic of Israeli occupation Theodore Mann died on Dec. 12, 2020 at 92. (Courtesy photo) Advertisement (JTA) Theodore Mann, a Philadelphia lawyer who led several major Jewish organizations and was an early critic of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, died of the coronavirus. Mann died Dec. 12 in Philadelphia, the The Washington Post reported. A daughter told the paper that the cause was COVID-19. Mann was 92. Mann was president of the American Jewish Congress in 1987 when the group adopted an unprecedented statement warning that Israel’s failure to divest itself of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip would eventually force it to choose between being a Jewish state and a democracy.

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Theodore Mann, lawyer and influential voice on Jewish affairs, dies at 92

Theodore Mann, lawyer and influential voice on Jewish affairs, dies at 92 Harrison Smith, The Washington Post Dec. 14, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail Theodore Mann.Family photo Theodore R. Mann, a lawyer and activist who worked on landmark First Amendment cases, led Major American Jewish Organizations and became an early and outspoken advocate for a two-state solution in the Middle East, died Dec. 12 at a hospital in Philadelphia. He was 92. The cause was covid-19, said his daughter Julie Mann. He had been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus that can cause the illness about two weeks earlier, she said. The son of Jewish immigrants from Czechoslovakia, Mann co-founded a law firm in Philadelphia, where he specialized in complex commercial litigation while taking pro bono cases through the American Civil Liberties Union and the American Jewish Congress. Four years into his legal career, he handled the early phases of a 1963 Supreme Court case, Abington School District v. Schempp, in

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Theodore Mann, influential voice on Jewish affairs, dies at 92

Theodore Mann, influential voice on Jewish affairs, dies at 92
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