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By Elaine Woo / The Bulletin
January 14, 2011
LOS ANGELES — Debbie Friedman, a self-taught Jewish folk singer and composer who transformed synagogue music and worship by infusing traditional prayers with a contemporary sensibility, died Sunday at Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo. She was 59.
The cause was complications of pneumonia from an....