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Rabbi Alan Plancey

Orthodox rabbi who linked Yiddishkeit with worldliness

By Gloria Tessler

5 min read
Rabbi Alan Plancey
British author, cartoonist and jazz musician Barry Fantoni, UK, 16th March 1968. (Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Obituary

Jewish artist and Private Eye stalwart Barry Fantoni dies aged 85

By Elisa Bray

4 min read
Alan Yentob who has died aged 78 (Photo: Getty Images)
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Obituary: Alan Yentob

By Gloria Tessler

5 min read
Aliza Magen was a veteran Mossad agent who served for almost 40 years under three security chiefs. (Kan 11)
Mossad

Aliza Magen, Mossad’s only female deputy director, dies aged 87

By Imogen Garfinkel

4 min read
Pope Francis visits the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, in Jerusalem's Old City, May 26, 2014 (Credit: Avi Ohayon - GPO /Getty Images)
Pope Francis

Pope Francis, a friend to Jews with conflicted views on Israel dead aged 88

By Daniel Ben-David

6 min read
David Sassoon, who passed away this week, pictured at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London (Alamy)
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David Sassoon, Jewish designer who dressed Princess Diana, dies aged 92

By Ellie Grant

3 min read
Israeli industrialist Stef Wertheimer in his office at Iscar Metalworking in this recent but undated file photo in the Teffen industrial zone in Israel's Western Galilee (Image: Getty)
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Stef Wertheimer, Israeli business mogul and advocate for Arab-Jewish peace, dies at 98

By Ellie Grant

2 min read

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George Summerfield, Holocaust survivor, dies at 91

By Eliana Jordan

3 min read

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April 9, 2025 13:19
George Summerfield, a Jewish refugee from Germany who came to the UK as a child in 1939, passed away on Monday at the age of 91. (Photo: AJR/Dr Bea Lewkowicz)
Douglas Murray

By Douglas Murray

Stanley Kalms: A true visionary who valued his protégés’ success above his own

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April 9, 2025 09:28
Stanley Kalms, hands out strawberries to customers at Dixons' Oxford Street Store in London to celebrate the company's 60th birthday

Baron Stanley Kalms dies at 93

By Eliana Jordan

1 min read

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March 31, 2025 17:03
Stanley Kalms, pictured in March 1966, passed away on Sunday at the age of 93. (Photo by J. R. Watkins/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Britain’s most successful shipwreck explorer Rex Cowan dies age 97

By Ellie Grant

3 min read

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March 26, 2025 13:12
Rex Braham Cowan passed away on earlier this month, at the age of 97 (Image: IMASS)

Peter Sichel, the man who made Blue Nun a runaway success dies at 102

By Jane Prinsley

4 min read

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March 13, 2025 12:50
Former Jewish refugee, CIA official and wine merchant Peter Sichel at his home in Manhattan, NYC

György Kun: Survivor of Mengele’s experiments at Auschwitz

By Keren David

3 min read

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March 11, 2025 19:13
György Kun: Survivor of Mengele’s experiments at Auschwitz

Polish-born journalist and historian Marian Turski dies aged 98

By Gloria Tessler

4 min read

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March 5, 2025 11:22
Polish historian and Holocaust survivor Marian Turski speaking at the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, January 2025 (Getty)

Boris Spassky, chess grandmaster who played the ‘game of the century’, dies aged 88

By Menachem Wecker

2 min read

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February 28, 2025 13:10
Soviet chess grandmaster Boris Spassky has died aged 88 (Image: Getty)

Buffy and Gossip Girl star Michelle Trachtenberg dies at 39

By Eliana Jordan

3 min read

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February 27, 2025 13:39
Michelle Tractenberg, who starred as Dawn in 20th Century Fox's "Buffy The Vampire Slayer", passed away on Wednesday at the age of 39. (Photo by Online USA)
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