Gloria Tessler

My synagogue is closing, and there's so much to miss

Gloria Tessler is determined to keep the spirit of Hendon Reform Synagogue alive

Obituary: Frédérick Leboyer

Pioneering French obstetrician

Islamic reformer inspired by Progressive rabbis

“They invite a Muslim, a progressive liberal imam for their Shabbat service,” he says. “And that imam wore a tallit and a kippah. I was honoured to participate. I have not seen something like that in my life in any mosque.”

Obituary: Daliah Lavi

Actress whose memorable turn in the spoofy 1967 Casino Royale belied a prodigious talent

Obituary: David Rosenberg

Popular, generous journalist known for his exuberance and talent chasing a story

Obituary: Deborah Lynn Steinberg:

Leading feminist academic who questioned whether Jewish identity could be “captured by a gene”

Obituary: David Rubinger

Obituary: Gerald Kaufman

Kaufman did not always run against the Jewish grain. In his younger days, he joined the Jewish Labour movement (Poale Zion) and, in the early 1970s, he was a close friend of former JC editor William Frankel

Obituary: Rolf Noskwith

A German-born linguist and mathematician who was rejected for British Army service but played an invaluable rôle as a Bletchley Park codebreaker

Obituary: Leonard Cohen

'I’m junk but I’m still holding up this little wild bouquet/Democracy is coming to the USA. To the USA'

Post-Brexit: would you apply for a German passport?

When the EU was formed England had a heart - where do we stand now?