Manchester news

• Edgar Neufeld obituary

  07-10-2025 18:56
  My father, Edgar Neufeld, who has died aged 92, was a Jewish refugee from the Nazis who became a scientist and senior IBM executive. He then dedicated himself to charitable work in education, for which he was made an OBE in 2003.After the family escaped from Vienna in 1938, Edgar grew up with his parents, Martha (nee Fuchs) and Sigi Neufeld, and his sister, Inge, in Manchester in a block of flats that was home to many other Jewish refugees. Sigi was a businessman and Martha later owned a gift bo
  
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• MPs and Jewish leaders call for Bob Vylan’s Manchester gig to be cancelled

  07-10-2025 14:21
  Letter says they are ‘deeply concerned’ about Manchester Academy concert after last week’s synagogue attackMPs and Jewish leaders have called for the punk-rap duo Bob Vylan’s forthcoming Manchester gig to be called off.The Jewish Representative Council of Greater Manchester (JRC) – in a letter backed by 10 MPs – has urged Manchester Academy to cancel the 5 November show. Continue reading...
  
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• I didn’t realise how much I loved my home town until a terrorist attacked it. I pray unity prevails there | Simon Hattenstone

  07-10-2025 13:06
  Last week’s attack on the synagogue in Crumpsall, Manchester, was also an assault on a model and diverse community. I hope they draw strength from each otherIt’s amazing how much of my life has been shaped by Crumpsall when I think about it. Which I hadn’t until last Thursday, and the horrific attack on the Heaton Park synagogue. Crumpsall is a small area of north Manchester, 1.2 sq miles with a population of 18,000. When I became seriously ill at the age of nine I was initiall
  
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• ‘Are the neighbours’ curtains twitching? Good!’ Avril A, the 80s housewife who became a star of Manchester’s gay scene

  07-10-2025 13:00
  She sang out of tune, her choreography was bizarre – and everyone who saw her loved her. As her superb music is rereleased, her family and fans recall a subcultural greatWhen Joanne Rosenthal was a kid in Manchester, gatherings of her religious Jewish family were enlivened by the presence of her uncle’s eccentric wife. “Mad eye makeup; larger than life. You’d say to her: ‘Auntie Avril, can I give you some more chicken?’ And she’d say: ‘Go on, Joann
  
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