July 2018
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OPINION: A first for the British press shows united front against Labour
Every Thursday, for almost a decade, I’ve cautiously checked social media for the latest Jewish Chronicle and Jewish Telegraph front pages. As editor of rival title Jewish News, seeing if the other community papers have bigger stories, or have presented them in a more engaging way, helps gauge how well I’m doing my job. It’s… Continue reading
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OPINION: Shoah director Claude Lanzmann was as uncompromising as his art
Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List is the most famous movie about the Holocaust, but it was documentary maker Claude Lanzmann, who died on Thursday aged 92, who most accurately shaped how we remember mankind’s darkest hour. Filmed in 14 countries over 11 years, Lanzmann’s gruelling nine-and-a-half-hour documentary, Shoah (the Hebrew word for catastrophe), has been more… 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.