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NEWSBRIEFS Actor George Segal Dies at 87
GEORGE SEGAL, who wrapped up a lengthy career
playing Pops in ABC’s long-running Jenkintown-
centric comedy “The Goldbergs,” died on March 23,
JTA reported. He was 87.

Early in his career, Segal fielded questions about
why he didn’t change his name or fix his nose.

“I didn’t change my name because I don’t think George
Segal is an unwieldy name,” Segal told The New York
Times in 1971. “It’s a Jewish name, but not unwieldy.

Nor do I think my nose is unwieldy. I think a nose job is
unwieldy. I can always spot ’em. Having a nose job says
more about a person than not having one. You always
wonder what that person would be like without a nose job.”
Segal’s noteworthy roles included “Who’s Afraid of
Virginia Woolf?,” “The Quiller Memorandum,” “The
Owl and the Pussycat” and “A Touch of Class.”
Boston-Area High School Football Team Used
‘Auschwitz’ as Play Call
The Duxbury High School football team used
“Auschwitz” and other words with Jewish significance
to call plays during a March 12 game, prompting the
school to apologize and fire its longtime coach, Dave
Maimaron, JTA reported.

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said “rabbi” and “dreidel” were among other words used.

Maimaron, who led Duxbury to five state champi-
onships, apologized for “insensitive, crass and
inappropriate” language.

Duxbury Superintendent John Antonucci said in
a letter to the community that an ongoing investiga-
tion would look into the role adults played in stoking
the comments. He said while the players used poor
judgment, “the responsibility for this incident also
lies with the adults overseeing the program. In short,
this was a systemic failure.”
Germany Pays $13.5M for Holocaust Survivor
Vaccines Worldwide
The German government will pay $13.5 million to
get Holocaust survivors to COVID-19 vaccination
locations worldwide, JTA reported.

The New York-based Claims Conference will
administer the Holocaust Survivor Vaccine Assistance
Program through its network of more than 300
agency partners.

The money will cover the costs of organizing
vaccination appointments, transporting seniors to
and from appointments and coordinating follow-up
care and counseling.

“This added support from the German government
will expand our efforts to over 40 countries in which
Holocaust survivors live,” said Stuart Eizenstat, who
led negotiations with the German government on
behalf of the Claims Conference.

The Claims Conference estimates there are more
than 340,000 Holocaust survivors, of whom 45% are
not yet vaccinated.

New Jersey Paper Fires Photographer for
Anti-Semitic Slur in Caption
The Asbury Park Press fired reporter Gustavo
Martínez Contreras, who submitted an anti-Semitic
photo caption with an article that appeared on its
website for more than 14 hours, JTA reported.

Executive Editor Paul D’Ambrosio apologized on
March 22 “to women, the Lakewood Jewish community,
the Asian American community and all our readers.”
A day later he wrote that the paper first thought its site
was hacked, but that the caption went online without a
normally mandated review.

The photo of a female Orthodox nurse was originally
captioned, “A f***ing hot nurse, a total JAP, loads a
syringe with a dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.”
It accompanied a story about vaccine discrepancies on
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