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NEWSBRIEFS Session Drummer Hal Blaine Dies at 90
LEGENDARY SESSION DRUMMER Hal Blaine,
the son of Jewish immigrants, died March 11 of nat-
ural causes at his California home, according to the
Associated Press. He was 90.

Born Harold Simon Belsky in Holyoke,
Massachusetts, Blaine was playing professionally by
the time he was 20 and eventually because a member
of “The Wrecking Crew.” That Los Angeles-based
group of studio musicians played on numerous pop
music hit recordings.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame said Blaine played
on 40 No. 1 hits, 150 top-10 tunes and eight songs that
were Grammy winners for record of the year. Those
include Frank Sinatra’s “Strangers in the Night”
and “Bridge Over Troubled Water” by Simon &
Garfunkel. The AP said it is believed Blaine is the
only drummer to perform with Sinatra, Elvis Presley
and John Lennon.

Student Government at Swarthmore
Approves Resolution to Boycott Israel
Swarthmore College’s Student Government
Organization approved a resolution that requests the
school divest itself from companies doing business in
Israel’s West Bank, JTA reported.

The organization previously rejected the measure
at a closed meeting vote, but held a second vote March
3 after it decided student groups hadn’t provided
enough input.

Swarthmore President Valerie Smith and other
school officials haven’t responded to the resolution.

The college’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter
proposed the resolution; it asks Swarthmore to divest
from seven companies doing business with Israel.

Oskar Schindler Items Sell for $46,000
A Longines watch, a compass, a 1938 Sudetenland
Medal, a business card and two fountain pens owned
by Oskar Schindler fetched more than $46,000 at a
March 7 auction in Boston, JTA reported.

The German businessman, who is credited with
saving more than 1,200 Jews who worked in his
factory during the Holocaust, was the subject of
the 1993 film Schindler’s List and the 1982 novel
Schindler’s Ark.

Auction House RR Auction said the items came
from the estate of Schindler’s wife, Emilie. She died
in 2001.

The compass sold is believed to have been used by
the Schindlers as they fled from Russian troops in
1945 and moved toward American-occupied terri-
tory. The medal was awarded, in part, for Schindler’s
role in spying for the German government and
assisting in the Sudetenland annexation and occupation.

Polish Newspaper Runs Article About
‘How to Recognize a Jew’
Polish-language right-wing weekly newspaper Tylko
Polska (Only Poland) ran a front-page article about
“how to recognize a Jew,” JTA reported.

The article mentions “Names, anthropological
features, expressions, appearances, character traits,
methods of operation” and “disinformation activi-
ties,” as well as text that said “How to defeat them?
This cannot go on!”
Fringe political candidate Leszek Bubl publishes
Tylko Polska. Bubl, who is also a musician, has sung
in the past about “rabid” rabbis.

The paper was included in periodicals distributed
March 13 at the Sejm, Polish parliament’s lower
house. After lawmaker Michał Kamiński protested,
the Sejm Information Center said the chancellery of
the Sejm will ask that the publication be removed. l
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