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…. Read More ›
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OPINION: DNA shows I’m the sum of my parts and past
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… Read More ›
OPINION: Instead of fighting Tories, Corbyn is obsessed with the moral failings of the Jewish state
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… Read More ›
OPINION: Sacks breaks silence as Corbyn drowns in his river of filth
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… Read More ›
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… Read More ›
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… Read More ›
OPINION: The Al-Quds milkshake brings all the loons to the yard
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… Read More ›
OPINION: In the end it was more ‘me a martyr’ than mea culpa
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… Read More ›
OPINION: Corbyn’s default blindness to Jewish fears
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… Read More ›
OPINION: Real heroes are carers, not cape wearers
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… Read More ›
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