Gloria Tessler

When art boosts health at Ben Uri

Mental and physical health are helped by a range of activities at the Ben Uri Art Gallery. Gloria Tessler reports.

Simone Veil

Leading fighter for abortion and women’s rights in France

Obituary: Sheila Michaels

Political activist who changed the face of feminism

My synagogue is closing, and there's so much to miss

Gloria Tessler is determined to keep the spirit of Hendon Reform Synagogue alive

Obituary: Frédérick Leboyer

Pioneering French obstetrician

Islamic reformer inspired by Progressive rabbis

“They invite a Muslim, a progressive liberal imam for their Shabbat service,” he says. “And that imam wore a tallit and a kippah. I was honoured to participate. I have not seen something like that in my life in any mosque.”

Obituary: Daliah Lavi

Actress whose memorable turn in the spoofy 1967 Casino Royale belied a prodigious talent

Obituary: David Rosenberg

Popular, generous journalist known for his exuberance and talent chasing a story

Obituary: Deborah Lynn Steinberg:

Leading feminist academic who questioned whether Jewish identity could be “captured by a gene”

Obituary: David Rubinger

Obituary: Gerald Kaufman

Kaufman did not always run against the Jewish grain. In his younger days, he joined the Jewish Labour movement (Poale Zion) and, in the early 1970s, he was a close friend of former JC editor William Frankel

Obituary: Rolf Noskwith

A German-born linguist and mathematician who was rejected for British Army service but played an invaluable rôle as a Bletchley Park codebreaker