If you haven’t visited Israel’s beautiful south lately, Richard Ferrer asks: ‘What’s kept you?’ Bet it’s been a while since you last dipped a toe in the warm waters of Eilat. Minus Tel Aviv’s big city buzz or Jerusalem’s biblical city culture – and an extra plane ride or four-hour drive away – the resort… Continue reading

Who’d imagine a BBC1 show famed for reporting on dogs that can say ‘sausages’ and vegetables that look like thingies would broadcast the most moving moment in television history. But that’s precisely what That’s Life! – The One Show of its day – managed to achieve one Sunday evening back in February 1988. Between reports on a knobbly… Continue reading

Camp America only lasts two months, but its gifts last a lifetime. Back in 1992, the 21-year-old student with Harry Styles hair in these dusty old polaroids had the best summer of his life as a counsellor at Nah-Jee-Wah, a Jewish kids’ camp in Milford, Pennsylvania. There he discovered more about himself in two months… Continue reading

Reading Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf was my struggle. I don’t recommend you follow suit, no matter how noble your intentions. Written by the Nazi dictator during his stretch in the slammer in 1924, this guidebook for the misguided set out his psychotic anti-Semitic manifesto and served as his masterplan for mass murder. Hitler was as gifted with… Continue reading

Britain’s Jewish community may sometimes be divided in terms of its affiliations, but on the most important issue of all it has never been so united – the education of its children. The inaugural Jewish Schools Awards, orgainsed by the Jewish News and Partnerships for Jewish Schools, was a joyous celebration of this fact. Our academically excellent… Continue reading