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Gloria Tessler

Gloria Tessler is obituaries editor at the Jewish Chronicle.

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Obituary: Lord Clinton-Davis

Labour Peer and civil rights campaigner who fought antisemitism in Parliament

By Gloria Tessler

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Obituary: Gaby Elyahou

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LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 09: West Ham United Chairman David Gold poses for photographs prior to the Emirates FA Cup Third Round match between West Ham United and Wolverhampton Wanderers at Boleyn Ground on January 9, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by Clive Rose/Getty Images)

Obituary: David Gold and Jacqueline Gold

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Jerry Springer Speaks To Guests During His Show December 17, 1998. The Show Which Features Violent Outbrusts And Adult Content Has Been Soaring In The Ratings. (Photo By Getty Images)

Obituary: Jerry Springer

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Obituary: Dr Olga Kennard, OBE

Crystallographer who set up the Cambridge data centre as a resource to aid international research

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Obituary: Allan Louis Neville Jay, MBE

British fencing champion and Olympic team captain

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April 21, 2023 19:25

Allan Jay of Great Britain (L) competes against Daniel Revenu of France in the Men's Individual Foil Fencing competition on 13th October 1964 during the XVIII Summer Olympic Games at the Memorial Hall, Waseda University, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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

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April 14, 2023 08:56

How the Yellow Candle Project keeps the flame burning for Shoah victims

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

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March 23, 2023 14:11

Obituary: Tom Tugend

American reporter who fought in three wars and was celebrated as ‘Jewish media’s gentleman correspondent’

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February 23, 2023 12:27

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?

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January 26, 2023 15:28

The music that tells the story of a three-year-old refugee girl

Obituary: Dayan Chanoch Ehrentreu

Leading Talmudic scholar of the post-war era who campaigned against domestic abuse

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January 5, 2023 12:18

BERLIN, GERMANY - OCTOBER 09: Dayan Chanoch Ehrentreu, Dean of the Berlin Rabbinical Seminary, arrives for the ordination of three rabbis and three cantors at the Beth Zion Synagogue on October 9, 2018 in Berlin, Germany. The three Ukrainian-born rabbis are the first Orthodox rabbis to be ordained in Berlin since World War II. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

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

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December 29, 2022 12:37

The PTSD-stricken Israeli soldiers who wake up screaming

Obituary: Eddie Young

Intrepid newspaper lawyer whose editorial ruling helped nail Stephen Lawrence killers

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December 15, 2022 12:43

Obituary: Professor Brian Winston

TV academic and commentator who challenged the idea of media objectivity

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October 28, 2022 09:05

Obituary: Professor Ian Glynn

The dissection of a human brain and a skeleton in the cupboard helped trigger a leading career in science

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October 13, 2022 17:09

Obituary: HM The Queen

A woman - a royal - a Queen for our times who became Britain’s longest serving monarch

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September 8, 2022 17:42

WINDSOR, ENGLAND - APRIL 28: Queen Elizabeth II attends an audience with the President of Switzerland Ignazio Cassis (Not pictured) at Windsor Castle on April 28, 2022 in Windsor, England. (Photo by Dominic Lipinski - WPA Pool/Getty Images)