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FEATURE: I’ve never looked so good
It wasn’t the countless mornings wishing I could find my glasses so I could find my glasses, or the countless nights I slept in contact lenses and woke up looking like I’d stumbled off the red eye from Rio. What finally convinced me to get laser eye surgery was my optician uttering the dreaded B-word.… Continue reading
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FEATURE: ‘There are no Israeli or Palestinian sides, just a team’
Unlike so much about Israel and Palestine, at least football is not a matter of life and death. Rather, it’s a cause for fresh hope. Chelsea women’s football team has just returned from a pre-season trip to Israel, taking centre stage in a unique scheme that’s united more than 25,000 Arab and Jewish youngsters on… Continue reading
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FEATURE: 10 things we learned from Israel’s Eurovision Song Contest
1) The UK is now so reviled we could put the Beatles on stage singing Love Me Do and still come last. 2) All I can say in Iceland’s defence is it’s dark there for most of the year. 3) Israel’s Borat lookie-likey Kobi Marimi was not better than Netta. His operatic dirge was universally loathed by every… Continue reading
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FEATURE: Tackling intolerance with proud purpose
On the coach to Auschwitz, former Chelsea manager Avram Grant tells me what can fairly be described as a Holocaust joke. His sister and late father Meir, who suffered unimaginable horrors at the hands of the Nazis, were at the 2008 Champions League final in Moscow to see Avram’s Chelsea play Manchester United. The game… Continue reading
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FEATURE: 50 things fatherhood has taught me
Being a parent is like running a hotel for rowdy rock stars. Here’s 50 things Richard Ferrer has learned in the past five years since he and his wife Jenny checked their own little Courtney Love and Keith Richards in for 18 years of full bed and board… 1 Kids aren’t the worst bosses, they’re just… Continue reading
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FEATURE: Technion’s bright ideas prove anything is Mission: Possible
Haifa’s Technion Institute of Technology is Israel in a nutshell, bursting with energy and ambition. Richard Ferrer enrols for an afternoon Dah da da, dah da da, dah da, da-da, dah da da da, da, da! Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to visit the Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa… Continue reading
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FEATURE: Liberating the forgotten music of the Holocaust
Songs written and performed in Nazi concentration camps were played for the first time in 73 years at a magical concert in Jerusalem… Mankind’s darkest hour is also, mercifully, one of its most documented. Yad Vashem’s archive contains the names of four-and-a-half of the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis, along with thousands… 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.
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