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NEWSBRIEFS Tax Attorney Charlie Kopp Dies at 85
NOTED TAX ATTORNEY Charlie Kopp, who held several
prominent positions locally, died Feb. 6, according to law firm
Cozen O’Connor. He was 85.

Kopp joined Cozen of counsel in 2009 after many years at
Wolf Block.

A longtime Republican fundraiser, Kopp was a member
of the board of trustees of Thomas Jefferson University and a
board member of the Rothman Orthopaedic Institute. He was
appointed chairman of the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority
in 2011; 25 years earlier, he was appointed commissioner to the
Delaware River Port Authority.

Kopp served on the advisory board to the Resolution Trust
Corp., was appointed in 1980 to Gov. Dick Thornburgh’s Special
State Tax Commission and was appointed co-chair of the
Philadelphia Tax Committee in 1982.

Israel Defense Assistance, Anti-BDS Bill Passes Senate
By a 77-23 vote, the Senate approved a bill codifying $38 million in
Israeli defense assistance, while also giving states legal cover to battle
the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, JTA reported.

Several prominent Democratic senators — including both
declared and likely candidates — voted against the bill. They said
that while they opposed BDS, they were worried that state laws
against it conflicted with freedom of speech.

Dissenters included declared presidential candidates Elizabeth
Warren of Massachusetts, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Cory
Booker of New Jersey and Kamala Harris of California, as well as likely
candidates Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Sherrod Brown of Ohio.

Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who just announced her
candidacy, voted for the bill. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky was the
lone Republican voting against the bill.

ESPN: Foul Ball to the Head Killed Jewish Woman
in 2018 at Dodger Stadium
ESPN reported Feb. 5 that a foul ball to the head killed a California
Jewish woman on Aug. 29, four days after she was struck.

Linda Goldbloom, 79, died of “acute intracranial hemorrhage
due to history of blunt force trauma,” according to a coroner’s
report. The incident had not been previously reported.

Goldbloom was struck in the ninth inning of a game and
taken to a hospital, where she had emergency brain surgery.

After being unconscious on a respirator for three days, her family
allowed her to be taken off, as per her prior wishes.

Goldbloom and her husband of 59 years, Erwin, had been
partial season ticket holders for a decade.

Anti-Semitism Envoy Named
President Donald Trump on Feb. 5 named Los Angeles prosecutor Elan
Carr as the State Department’s envoy for anti-Semitism, JTA reported.

The post had been empty for two years.

Carr, 50, is an Army veteran with service in Iraq. He also was
the national president of Jewish fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi.

“We eagerly look forward to working with Carr, as his office
combats rising anti-Semitism, generated from the far right, the
far left, and Islamist extremists, and abetted by the ubiquitous
nature of social media,” American Jewish Committee CEO
David Harris said in a statement.

One of Carr’s first orders of business was attending a con-
ference on anti-Semitism in Bratislava, followed by a European
Union conference on anti-Semitism to be held in Brussels. l
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