ObituaryObituary: Abraham H FoxmanNational director of the Anti-Defamation League hailed as a moral voice and passionate advocate for the Jewish peopleBy Gloria Tessler5 min read
ObituaryObituary: Mark GersonPhotographer who captured the light of the literary giants of the 20th centuryBy Jane Gerson4 min read
ObituaryObituary: George RothschildDistinguished chazan whose prayerful rendering of the service at New London Synagogue was widely acclaimedBy David Prager3 min read
ObituaryBelsen liberator Stanley Fisher dies aged 101D-Day veteran Stanley marched across Europe during the Second World War as the only Jewish soldier in his unitBy Ben Rosen1 min read
ObituaryObituary: Dame Shirley Porter dies in Israel aged 95Iron Lady of the Town Halls who became the public face of gerrymandering “homes for votes” scandalBy Robert Philpot5 min read
ObituaryFashion guru Joan Burstein dies at 100The fairy godmother of high street fashion who brought a long list of international designers to BritainBy Gloria Tessler5 min read
ObituaryObituary: Semyon GluzmanDissident Soviet psychiatrist who exposed bogus diagnoses of mental illnessBy Gloria Tessler5 min read
Obituary: Professor Harold Ellis, CBEDistinguished surgeon, writer and educator whose skills inspired legions of colleagues and studentsBy Gloria Tessler4 min read||April 29, 2026 13:39
‘Godfather of denim’ Adriano Goldschmied dies aged 82Most denim jeans today bear some trace of Goldschmied’s impactBy Daniel Ben-David1 min read||April 17, 2026 14:44
Albert Zuckerman, renegade literary agent behind bestsellers including Ken Follett and Stephen Hawking, dies at 94Zuckerman’s hands-on approach to getting writers published was novel for its time, but helped shoot countless authors to literary stardomBy Eliana Jordan2 min read||April 7, 2026 13:27
Top-scoring Jewish head teacher Norma Massel dies at 77She propelled North Cheshire Jewish Primary School to the top of the English league tables, attributing her success to a clarity of valuesBy Gloria Tessler5 min read||April 7, 2026 12:21
Remembering Phil Woolas, a true warrior against campus antisemitismThe Labour politician, who has died aged 66, started fighting campus Jew-hate while himself a studentBy Matthew Kalman3 min read||April 6, 2026 09:19
Pioneering geneticist David Botstein dies at 83Botstein discovered a method for locating disease-causing genes in human DNA before the arrival of genome sequencingBy Eliana Jordan2 min read||March 26, 2026 15:13
Michael Rose, co-founder of New North London Synagogue, dies at 90Rose was a distinguished lawyer and devoted family manBy David Rose4 min read||March 17, 2026 12:30
Obituary: Musician Neil Sedaka dies at 86Classical music prodigy turned hitmaker whose pop career began aged 13By Elisa Bray3 min read||March 10, 2026 11:51
Obituary: Bernard LewisBillionaire fashion retailer whose Chelsea Girl and River Island shops caught the zeitgeist of their erasBy Gloria Tessler6 min read||March 9, 2026 12:52
