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Deaths in 2020
Top row from left: Carl Reiner, Des O'Connor, Eric Hall, Hedi Frankl, Joel Schumacher Bottom row from left: kirk Douglas, Peter Green, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Zef Eisenberg
December 31, 2020, 4:20 pm
A year of remembrance: Those we lost in 2020
Hollywood greats, community giants and legendary entertainers were among those who passed away in the last 12 months
By Jewish News Reporter
George Blake, double KGB agent, who escaped from Wormwood Scrubs prison in London, after serving five and a half years of his 42-year sentence for giving away Government secrets.
December 28, 2020, 8:02 pm
Cold war double agent George Blake dies aged 98
Infamous spy who was jailed for giving state secrets away and escaping from Wormwood Scrubs in 1966 was born to a Sephardic Jewish father
By Jewish News Reporter
Dame Fanny Waterman
December 21, 2020, 3:38 pm
Tributes paid to pianist Dame Fanny Waterman who has died aged 100
Founder and President Emeritus of The Leeds International Piano Competition was world-renowned as a musician
By Tali Fraser
Lawrie Nerva with wife Ruby, (left) Dame Louise Ellman and Adrian Cohen (Credit: Adrian Cohen)
December 21, 2020, 11:19 am
Keir Starmer leads tributes to veteran activist Lawrie Nerva, who dies aged 98
Party leader says the stalwart of the Jewish Labour Movement was a 'member and activist since the days of Clem Attlee', as communal leaders pay respects to the campaigner
Jack Steinberger (Wikipedia/ Author Sigismund von Dobschütz/ Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0))
December 18, 2020, 3:48 pm
Pioneering Jewish physicist and Nobel Prize winner Jack Steinberger dies age 99
Scientist, who throughout his career declined to do research for weapon building, worked with Enrico Fermi and J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb
By JTA
Rabbi Irving Jacobs (Credit: Neve Shalom Synagogue's website)
December 9, 2020, 7:33 pm
Tributes paid to former Jews College principal, Rabbi Irving Jacobs
United Synagogue leads tributes to long-serving Neve Shalom shul leader and educator who has passed away
By Jewish News Reporter
The Prince of Wales (centre) speaks with Bertha Leverton and Bertha Ohayon, at the Kinder Transport Reunion at the Jewish Free School, Kingsbury, London.
December 3, 2020, 2:27 pm
Bertha Leverton, ‘Driving force’ of Kinder reunions, dies aged 97
Founder of Reunion of Kindertransport group dedicated her life to bringing families of Jewish refugees back together.
By Jack Mendel
Eldred Tabachnik (Screenshot: Centre For Jewish Life)
November 30, 2020, 5:04 pm
Tributes to former Board of Deputies president Eldred Tabachnik, who died at 77
South African-born QC led the communal organisation for two terms, and also served as president of the European Jewish Congress and British friends of Boys Town Jerusalem
By Tali Fraser
James Wolfensohn (Wikipedia/ Author: International Monetary Fund/ http://www.imf.org/)
November 29, 2020, 10:29 am
Former World Bank president and philanthropist, James Wolfensohn, dies at 86
Australian-born businessman died at his Manhattan home reportedly of pneumonia
By JTA
Eric Hall (Tim Matthews/PA Wire/PA Images)
November 17, 2020, 9:31 am
Famed showbiz and football agent Eric Hall dies aged 73
Known for a trademark cigar and regular use of Yiddish words, he made deals on behalf of household names Dennis Wise, Tim Sherwood and Neil Ruddock.
Veteran entertainer Des O'Connor with his CBE at Buckingham Palace
November 15, 2020, 10:30 am
Tributes to ‘ultimate entertainer’ Des, and ‘only O’Connor to be barmitzvahed!’
TV star whose mother was Jewish, and claimed to be the only person named O'Connor to have had a barmitzvah, died following a fall at his Buckinghamshire home
By Jewish News Reporter
Rabbi Dovid Feinstein led the Mesivtha Tiferes Yerushalayim yeshiva on the Lower East Side for decades, succeeding his late father. (Courtesy of Agudath Israel via JTA)
November 11, 2020, 7:29 pm
Rabbi Dovid Feinstein, renowned Jewish legal authority, dies at 91
He served as the head of the Mesivtha Tiferes Yerushalayim on Manhattan’s Lower East Side from the time of his father’s death in 1986 until his own passing on Friday
By JTA
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (right) with negotiator Saeb Erekat (left)
November 10, 2020, 6:13 pm
Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat dies aged 65
Diplomat who had close relations with both Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas passed away from Covid-19 in an Israeli hospital
By Jewish News Reporter
Lord Sacks with Tony Blair at Jewish News' Night of heroes in 2018.
November 7, 2020, 6:16 pm
Rabbi Lord Sacks, rabbinical giant of his generation, dies aged 72
The former Chief Rabbi's Twitter account states: "It is with the deepest sadness that we regret to inform you that Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks passed away early this morning."
By Jewish News Reporter
Lilian Black
October 30, 2020, 11:45 am
Lilian Black was ‘a tireless, well-loved advocate for survivors and refugees’
Heartfelt tributes paid to 'dynamic' chair of the Holocaust Survivor Friendship Association who received OBE from Her Majesty the Queen in the recent birthday honours
By Jewish News Reporter
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