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The King's Speech

Obituary: David Seidler

Writer whose personal story shaped his biggest film success

5 min read

WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA - FEBRUARY 27: Writer David Seidler arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar party hosted by Graydon Carter held at Sunset Tower on February 27, 2011 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Craig Barritt/Getty Images)

Obituary: Yvonne Green

Obituary: Yvonne Green

Bukharan-Jewish poet inspired by themes of exile, memory and dispossession

By Gloria Tessler

5 min read

Obituary: Kurt Wick

Holocaust refugee who found safety in his “little Vienna” in Shanghai

By Gloria Tessler

5 min read

US Senator from Connecticut Joe Lieberman passed away last week at the age of 82. (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

Hundreds mourn ‘supreme mensch’ Joe Lieberman at Jewish senator’s funeral

‘We laughed together, we fought like hell together for what we wanted our country to be’ said Al Gore

By Eliana Jordan

2 min read

Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman dies aged 90

The Israeli-American professor, known for his work in the field of behavioural economics, passed away this week

By Eliana Jordan

2 min read

Auschwitz survivor and tailor to the stars dies at 95

Martin Greenfield learned to sew in Auschwitz and later became one of America’s best known tailors, making suits for presidents

2 min read

hereditary peer

Obituary: Jacob, 4th Baron Rothschild

Jewish banker whose philanthropy boosted the environment and the arts in Britain and Israel

By Gloria Tessler

5 min read

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Obituary: Rabbi Raymond Apple

Modern Orthodox Rabbi from ‘down under’ who bridged gaps between all faiths

By Gloria Tessler

4 min read

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 6: Rabbi Raymond Apple of the Great Synagogue in Sydney prepares his memorial service 06 November for assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Rabbi Apple said that while he condemned the assassination, PM Rabin's actions had alienated a section of the Jewish people. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read TORSTEN BLACKWOOD/AFP via Getty Images)

Community mourns much-loved photographer Marc Morris

Marc devoted his career to taking photos of Jewish sporting events, as well as royalty and prime ministers

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

Marc Morris with his wife Nicola

The pioneering gerontologist who fled Nazi Germany and revolutionised dementia care

Naomi Feil, whose family fled Nazi persecution in Germany in 1937, has died at the age of 91

By Eliana Jordan

4 min read

Naomi Feil transformed the field of dementia care with her validation method. (Photo courtesy of Vicki de Klerk-Rubin)

Survived Auschwitz

Obituary: Frank Bright

Holocaust survivor who explored the fate of his class of 1942

By Gloria Tessler

5 min read

Frank Bright MBE (Photo: AJR)

Obituary: Piper Laurie

Defiant independent actress who challenged Hollywood’s simple, sexual roles

By Nathan Abrams

5 min read

Actress Piper Laurie arrives at the premiere of Lions Gates Films' "Eulogy" on October 13, 2004 (Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Obituary: Marcel Anisfeld

Holocaust refugee who became an entrepreneur at the age of eight

By Lance Anisfield

5 min read

Obituary: Marcel Anisfeld

Obituary: Vivian Silver

Israeli pacifist who discovered a hundred ways to peace

By Gloria Tessler

5 min read

Obituary: Vivian Silver

Obituary: Anna Scher

Drama 'legend' who taught Islington children truths beyond stardom

By Gloria Tessler

5 min read

Obituary: Anna Scher

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