In the beginning there was the Board of Deputies, followed (a few centuries later) by the Jewish Leadership Council – and rumours of a merger ever since. Each is vibrant and effective, with a positive influence on British Jewish life. Yet the M-word looms large, because it can be impossible to discern differences between roles Continue reading

Remember when EastEnder Danny Dyer couldn’t believe his mince pies when he found he was related to King Edward III on BBC1’s Who Do You Think You Are? Well, I’ve just had a bit of a Who Jew You Think You Are? moment, as corr-blimey as a Bow Bells cockney shaking a 14th century monarch Continue reading

It was supposed to be the moment Labour finally woke from its antisemitic slumber. Tuesday’s meeting of the party’s NEC was a chance to shove the Jew-hate gremlin kicking and screaming back in its bottle and crack on with the important business of humiliating the Conservatives — a task simpler than shooting fish in a Continue reading

British Jews have been trapped in Labour’s anti-Semitism twilight zone for more than three years, but this week’s intervention by former Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, comparing Jeremy Corbyn’s smear about British Zionists needing a lesson in English irony with Enoch Powell’s Rivers of Blood speech takes us down a yet murkier path. Relations between British Continue reading

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

Last year, days after genocidal jihadists slaughtered eight people on London Bridge, the Government allowed the genocidal jihadist flag of Hezbollah to be waved a few miles down the road at the Al Quds Day rally. On Sunday, days after launching its new counter-terrorism strategy, the Government let the event take place again, with the Continue reading

In the end it was more “me a martyr” than mea culpa. This week Ken Livingstone resigned from the Labour Party, before a second disciplinary hearing into his imaginative “Hitler supported Zionism” take on history. The straw that broke this stubborn camel’s back – when no dry stalk seemed up to the task – came Continue reading

After three years of silence, last week Jeremy Corbyn finally agreed to be interviewed by the Jewish News. He decided to talk directly to the Jewish community at the moment it needed to hear from him most. Hours before, the Labour leader witnessed the unprecedented sight of around 1,500 British Jews outside Parliament, protesting against Continue reading

Night Of Heroes, a celebration of the community’s outstanding achievers held by Jewish News on Monday night, was inspired by a remarkable man my team and I simply call ‘Our hero’. On Wednesday, 1 July 2015, we were set to send another issue of this newspaper to the printers when news broke that Sir Nicholas Continue reading