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OPINION: The pen is mightier than the abhorred
Richard Sharp, the Jewish (soon-to-be) former chairman of the BBC, his beady eyes dark and hollow, his nose long and bulbous, a smug grin across his face, clutches a box marked “Goldman Sachs” piled with gold coins, a squid and Rishi Sunak puppet. Behind him lies a severed pig’s head and Boris “Jabba the Hut” Johnson,… Continue reading
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REVIEW: Baddiel’s affectionate two fingers up to faith
First Jews don’t count, now Jehovah. As he existentially approaches 60, David Baddiel is on a Blues Brothers mission from God (more on Him later) to shape the zeitgeist. The piercing moral clarity of his first TLS extended essay, Jews Don’t Count, reframed the antisemitism debate – ripping the band aid off a sore at the… Continue reading
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PODCAST: Guess who’s coming to seder…
Jewish News editor Richard Ferrer chats with David Roth in new Pesach podcast series from Anu, The Museum of The Jewish People. Anu, The Museum of The Jewish People in collaboration with David Roth, has launched a new podcast series called Guess Who’s Coming to Seder. Timed to coincide with Passover which commences on the evening… Continue reading
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INTERVIEW: The Knightly news
Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis sits down with Richard Ferrer to reflect on the moments in his life which have influenced his philosophy of inclusion Ten years, five prime ministers and one knighthood later, the Chief Rabbi can look back with pride on a decade defined by one overarching goal – to make modern Orthodox Judaism… Continue reading
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OPINION: If you don’t think this is indefensible, what is?
There are five Ws in journalism – who, what, where, when, why. There are but three in the Middle East – what, went, wrong. More Wild East than Middle East, it’s a place dominated by despots violently oppressing their own people while violently opposing the existence of Jews in 0.1 percent of the land. With… Continue reading
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OPINION: In Israel, the diaspora sees a version of itself
The impact of last week’s Jewish News front page was felt across the diaspora – and Israel. And sparked unprecedented debate. It posed a timely question about the looming Israeli election: Do Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, likely ministers in the next Knesset coalition who condemn reform Judaism, Arabs and non-heterosexuals, pose a moral danger to Israel… Continue reading
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SPECIAL REPORT: ‘We want to live, there is no life here’
Richard Ferrer visits a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan to see how MDA UK is playing a vital role in efforts to ease the world’s worst refugee crisis Beside a motorway on the outskirts of Amman, indistinguishable from the surrounding wasteland, is a godforsaken place 50 children call home. To refugee aid agencies it is nameless… Continue reading
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INTERVIEW: ‘I don’t get on with everyone but when I shake hands, that’s it’
Lord Levy could teach Facebook a thing or two about social networking. Richard Ferrer goes head-to-head with the fundraiser extraordinaire… on and off the tennis court. Lord Levy, it turns out, is a bit of a hoarder. His home office is an Aladdin’s cave of artefacts and antiques, accumulated over the course of half-a-century of… Continue reading
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OPINION: Starmer must finally finish what he has started
Just because Labour MPs John McDonnell and Zarah Sultana attempted to legitimise a deranged anti-Israel rally in Whitehall with their speeches does not mean they condone chants at the event urging Hamas to “blow up” an Israeli city. Far from it. The pair were, however, damned by their presence. What on earth were two of Keir Starmer’s… Continue reading
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OPINION: Students, Jewish or not, deserve so much better
The National Union of Students represents tens of thousands of members of 600 student unions up and down the country. For the first 80 years of its century-long history it prided itself on representing students’ interests and maintaining standards in campus life. The NUS website says the union is “proudly radical since 1922”. In the… Continue reading
About Me
Newspaper editor and publisher with 30-years’ experience at national and local titles in the UK and USA including the Daily Mail, Daily Mirror and Jewish Advocate. Editor of Jewish News (Free Weekly Newspaper of the Year 2021/22) since 2009. Columnist for The Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, Independent and others.