Gloria Tessler
Gloria Tessler is obituaries editor at the Jewish Chronicle.
Obituary: Jerry Springer
Charismatic American chat show host who played ringmaster to the ‘worst show in TV history’
Obituary: Dr Olga Kennard, OBE
Crystallographer who set up the Cambridge data centre as a resource to aid international research
Obituary: Allan Louis Neville Jay, MBE
British fencing champion and Olympic team captain
How the Yellow Candle Project keeps the flame burning for Shoah victims
Two German Jews, six decades apart in age, are among those remembered in Maccabi GB’s campaign
Obituary: Chaim Topol
Israeli actor who took so many of us back to our east European roots with his portrayal of shtetl Jew Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof
Obituary: Tom Tugend
American reporter who fought in three wars and was celebrated as ‘Jewish media’s gentleman correspondent’
The music that tells the story of a three-year-old refugee girl
Former Guardian journalist Jessica Shepherd is adapting the famous castaway radio format for Holocaust survivors - so which songs would they choose?
Obituary: Dayan Chanoch Ehrentreu
Leading Talmudic scholar of the post-war era who campaigned against domestic abuse
The PTSD-stricken Israeli soldiers who wake up screaming
Post-traumatic stress disorder is rife in the Israel Defense Forces and suicide is the leading cause of death for soldiers
Obituary: Eddie Young
Intrepid newspaper lawyer whose editorial ruling helped nail Stephen Lawrence killers
Obituary: Professor Brian Winston
TV academic and commentator who challenged the idea of media objectivity
Obituary: Professor Ian Glynn
The dissection of a human brain and a skeleton in the cupboard helped trigger a leading career in science
Obituary: HM The Queen
A woman - a royal - a Queen for our times who became Britain’s longest serving monarch
Obituary: A.B. Yehoshua
Leading Israeli novelist who embraced Arab culture and promoted the Palestinian cause
Obituary: Marina Smith MBE
The preacher’s wife who made a home for Holocaust survivors in a large, derelict Nottingham farmhouse
Obituary: Singer, comedienne and actress Tracy Kashi
Courageous, witty and passionate performer who fought to demystify breast cancer
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