Richard Sharp, the Jewish (soon-to-be) former chairman of the BBC, his beady eyes dark and hollow, his nose long and bulbous, a smug grin across his face, clutches a box marked “Goldman Sachs” piled with gold coins, a squid and Rishi Sunak puppet. Behind him lies a severed pig’s head and Boris “Jabba the Hut” Johnson,… Continue reading

First Jews don’t count, now Jehovah. As he existentially approaches 60, David Baddiel is on a Blues Brothers mission from God (more on Him later) to shape the zeitgeist. The piercing moral clarity of his first TLS extended essay, Jews Don’t Count, reframed the antisemitism debate – ripping the band aid off a sore at the… Continue reading

Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis sits down with Richard Ferrer to reflect on the moments in his life which have influenced his philosophy of inclusion Ten years, five prime ministers and one knighthood later, the Chief Rabbi can look back with pride on a decade defined by one overarching goal – to make modern Orthodox Judaism… Continue reading

The impact of last week’s Jewish News front page was felt across the diaspora – and Israel. And sparked unprecedented debate. It posed a timely question about the looming Israeli election: Do Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, likely ministers in the next Knesset coalition who condemn reform Judaism, Arabs and non-heterosexuals, pose a moral danger to Israel… Continue reading

Richard Ferrer visits a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan to see how MDA UK is playing a vital role in efforts to ease the world’s worst refugee crisis Beside a motorway on the outskirts of Amman, indistinguishable from the surrounding wasteland, is a godforsaken place 50 children call home. To refugee aid agencies it is nameless… Continue reading

Lord Levy could teach Facebook a thing or two about social networking. Richard Ferrer goes head-to-head with the fundraiser extraordinaire… on and off the tennis court. Lord Levy, it turns out, is a bit of a hoarder. His home office is an Aladdin’s cave of artefacts and antiques, accumulated over the course of half-a-century of… Continue reading

Just because Labour MPs John McDonnell and Zarah Sultana attempted to legitimise a deranged anti-Israel rally in Whitehall with their speeches does not mean they condone chants at the event urging Hamas to “blow up” an Israeli city. Far from it. The pair were, however, damned by their presence. What on earth were two of Keir Starmer’s… Continue reading

The National Union of Students represents tens of thousands of members of 600 student unions up and down the country. For the first 80 years of its century-long history it prided itself on representing students’ interests and maintaining standards in campus life. The NUS website says the union is “proudly radical since 1922”. In the… Continue reading

As Putin’s demonic onslaught continues, the spotlight is on the world’s response to the greatest refugee crisis since 1945. Ukraine’s neighbours have endorsed an open-door humanitarian policy, with more than 1.2 million people fleeing to Poland, 200,000 to Hungary, 120,000 to Slovakia and Moldova, 80,000 to Romania and 160,000 to other EU states, including 2,500… Continue reading

Tottenham Hotspur, a global sporting brand with annual turnover approaching half-a-billion pounds, has finally had enough of its reputation being trashed by its own supporters. The statement that appeared without fuss or fanfare on the football club’s website yesterday, two years after a fans’ survey on the issue, was a full-body tackle on thousands upon… Continue reading