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Cara Trager, beloved Queens Jewish communal leader and lifetime journalist, dies at 71

JL;DR SUMMARY Cara Trager, a lifelong journalist and ardent supporter of Israel, passed away at 71 after a tragic car accident. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish CommunityJewish IdentityZionismQueensJewish OrganizationsJournalismCommunity LeadershipTragic DeathCara Trager

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Queens, New York, United States
"Instead, he carried it to honor Cara Trager, a Queens-based journalist and congregant of his whose sudden death days earlier had left the local Jewish community reeling."
Hollis Hills, New York, United States
"Trager died May 29 from injuries sustained when she and her husband were struck by a car while returning to their home in Hollis Hills, Queens, from an Israeli restaurant four days earlier."
The Bronx, New York, United States
"Born on May 4, 1955, in the Bronx to Alex and Sylvia Selinger, Trager grew up in a neighborhood with few Jews."
Israel
"She was a board member of a childrens home in Israel."

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