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Therapist and writer Naomi Stadlen dies aged 82

Revolutionary therapist who wrote ‘the best parenting book you’ve never heard of’

By Gloria Tessler

5 min read

Therapist and writer Naomi Stadlen dies aged 82

Rabbi Alan Plancey

Rabbi Alan Plancey

By Gloria Tessler

5 min read

British author, cartoonist and jazz musician Barry Fantoni, UK, 16th March 1968. (Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Jewish artist and Private Eye stalwart Barry Fantoni dies aged 85

4 min read

Alan Yentob who has died aged 78 (Photo: Getty Images)

Obituary: Alan Yentob

By Gloria Tessler

5 min read

Aliza Magen was a veteran Mossad agent who served for almost 40 years under three security chiefs. (Kan 11)

Aliza Magen, Mossad’s only female deputy director, dies aged 87

By Imogen Garfinkel

4 min read

Pope Francis visits the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, in Jerusalem's Old City, May 26, 2014 (Credit: Avi Ohayon - GPO /Getty Images)

Pope Francis, a friend to Jews with conflicted views on Israel dead aged 88

By Daniel Ben-David

6 min read

David Sassoon, who passed away this week, pictured at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London (Alamy)

David Sassoon, Jewish designer who dressed Princess Diana, dies aged 92

3 min read

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Stef Wertheimer, Israeli business mogul and advocate for Arab-Jewish peace, dies at 98

Wertheimer was one of Israel’s wealthiest citizens

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April 10, 2025 08:06

Israeli industrialist Stef Wertheimer in his office at Iscar Metalworking in this recent but undated file photo in the Teffen industrial zone in Israel's Western Galilee (Image: Getty)

George Summerfield, Holocaust survivor, dies at 91

A Jewish refugee from Germany who escaped from Berlin in 1939

By Eliana Jordan

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April 9, 2025 13:19

George Summerfield, a Jewish refugee from Germany who came to the UK as a child in 1939, passed away on Monday at the age of 91. (Photo: AJR/Dr Bea Lewkowicz)

Douglas Murray

By Douglas Murray

Stanley Kalms: A true visionary who valued his protégés’ success above his own

My great friend led an inspirational life built on drive, passion, flair and highly exacting standards

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April 9, 2025 09:28

Stanley Kalms, hands out strawberries to customers at Dixons' Oxford Street Store in London to celebrate the company's 60th birthday

Baron Stanley Kalms dies at 93

The head of Currys PLC and former member of the Conservative Party passed away on Sunday

By Eliana Jordan

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March 31, 2025 17:03

Stanley Kalms, pictured in March 1966, passed away on Sunday at the age of 93. (Photo by J. R. Watkins/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Britain’s most successful shipwreck explorer Rex Cowan dies age 97

A former lawyer who hailed from a Jewish family of Eastern European origin and grew up in north London

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March 26, 2025 13:12

Rex Braham Cowan passed away on earlier this month, at the age of 97 (Image: IMASS)

Peter Sichel, the man who made Blue Nun a runaway success dies at 102

Remembering an extraordinary life spanning more than a century

By Jane Prinsley

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March 13, 2025 12:50

Former Jewish refugee, CIA official and wine merchant Peter Sichel at his home in Manhattan, NYC

György Kun: Survivor of Mengele’s experiments at Auschwitz

His life was saved when his mother told Mengele that he and his brother were twins

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March 11, 2025 19:13

György Kun: Survivor of Mengele’s experiments at Auschwitz

Polish-born journalist and historian Marian Turski dies aged 98

Gatekeeper of Holocaust memories who warned against the dangers of silence and indifference

By Gloria Tessler

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March 5, 2025 11:22

Polish historian and Holocaust survivor Marian Turski speaking at the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, January 2025 (Getty)

Boris Spassky, chess grandmaster who played the ‘game of the century’, dies aged 88

One of the sport’s first mainstream stars, his reported Jewishness remains an enigma

By Menachem Wecker

2 min read

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February 28, 2025 13:10

Soviet chess grandmaster Boris Spassky has died aged 88 (Image: Getty)

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