Provincial repertory theatre, in which a semi-permanent company of actors performed a varied diet of plays for their community, week-in, week-out, has all but died out in Britain. Local theatres have become venues for visiting productions, one-off events and numerous outreach schemes, but the old continuity – a kind of magic – has gone. I
Theodore Mann, lawyer and influential voice on Jewish affairs, dies at 92
Harrison Smith, The Washington Post
Dec. 14, 2020
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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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