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Obituaries

Obituaries

Carl Reiner

Key figure in mad, mad, mad world of post-war American-Jewish humour

By David Herman

3 min read

Michael Goldmeier

Michael Goldmeier

Lawyer and community maven who changed the face of the British weekend

By Gloria Tessler

4 min read

Sir Gavin Lightman

Sir Gavin Lightman

From Private Eye to the miners’ strike — from snooker to the Globe theatre — the intellect, humanity and sense of mischief of a leading High Court judge

By Daniel Lightman

3 min read

John M Collins

Caring barrister whose hard work won him the Bar Council Pro-Bono Award

By sheila collins

3 min read

Rabbi Stanley Michaels

Antisemitic attack brought philanthropic and passionate rabbi to deeper Torah study

3 min read

Geoffrey Burnstock

Neuroscientist hailed for breakthrough signalling theory in the nervous system

3 min read

Professor Ada Rapoport-Albert

International scholar who researched early Chasidism and the role of gender in Jewish mysticism

4 min read

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Adash Bulwa

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