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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)

Marc Morris with his wife Nicola

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

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

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

Frank Bright MBE (Photo: AJR)

Survived Auschwitz

Obituary: Frank Bright

Holocaust survivor who explored the fate of his class of 1942

By Gloria Tessler

5 min read

Obituary: Piper Laurie

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

By Nathan Abrams

5 min read

Obituary: Marcel Anisfeld

Holocaust refugee who became an entrepreneur at the age of eight

By Lance Anisfield

5 min read

Obituary: Vivian Silver

Israeli pacifist who discovered a hundred ways to peace

By Gloria Tessler

5 min read

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Obituary: Anna Scher

Drama 'legend' who taught Islington children truths beyond stardom

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British poet and novelist inspired by London’s immigrant life

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Newcastle’s ‘poetry mugger’, speaker and local philosopher

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Obituary: In memory of those we lost after Hamas' horrific terrorist attack

For the dimmed light of a resurgent community whose homes lie in ruins and whose lives will never be the same again

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A woman lights a candle placed atop a sign showing an Israeli flag with hand-written notes, at a vigil for the hostages taken by Palestinian militants during the October 7 attack, at Dizengoff Square (Kikar Dizengoff) in the centre of Tel Aviv on November 7, 2023. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP) (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Obituary: Irma Brenman Pick

Kleinian psychoanalyst who drew on her patients’ early childhood experiences

By Gloria Tessler

4 min read

Obituary: Irma Brenman Pick

Dianne Feinstein

Obituary: Dianne Feinstein

The California senator was a passionate advocate for gun control

By Gloria Tessler

5 min read

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 6: Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on judicial nominations on Capitol Hill September 6, 2023 in Washington, DC. During the hearing the committee considered five judges for federal vacancies. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Obituary: Jeffrey Keen

Maverick physicist who found links between consciousness and the structure of the universe

By Marilyn Keen

4 min read

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Obituary: Clive Roffe

Businessman who fought for Jewish burial of medieval bones

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Obituary: Dr Michael Cohen

A man of wide intellectual and liturgical interests

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