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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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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: Corbyn’s Labour Party has very deep pockets
Hold the front page. Jeremy Corbyn has finally admitted his party’s anti-Semitism problem. On Sunday evening, after news broke he’d endorsed an anti-Semitic painting, the Labour leader issued an unprecedented apology for “pockets of anti-Semitism” in his party. Like the Jewish bankers in his favourite racist street art, Corbyn’s Labour Party has very deep pockets. At Continue reading
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REVIEW: Radiohead renews Israel love affair with marathon concert
‘We’re gonna play our fingers off!’ Thom Yorke tells Tel Aviv crowd during band’s longest gig for 11 years In sound and fury, Radiohead reaches the parts other bands cannot reach. Fury can wait. First the sound, soaring over Tel Aviv on Wednesday night during the final show of this singular band’s A Moon Shaped Pool world tour. The Continue reading
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VIDEO: Jerusalem conference on Jewish media
Speaking at a Jerusalem conference on new media economics and the viability of Jewish newspapers [7/12/16]: Click here for video Continue reading
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OPINION: From Obama to barmy
The popular consensus on President-elect Donald Trump’s march to the White House has been shock and horror. How can a man who says what he says and behaves how he behaves – while displaying the emotional maturity of a 12-year-old – be allowed to have his finger on the nuclear codes? He may have looked Continue reading
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OPINION: Want to spread Jew hate? Just tweet it
Each week my newspaper, Jewish News, shines a light on social media’s darkest corners, publishing the latest anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist Tweets in a section called ‘Thanks For Sharing’. Recent charm school graduates to feature include @MisGrace [“Israeli Jews harvest Palestinian kids’ organs”] and @AJCTmusic [“The Holocaust is a massive lie, indoctrinated by foreign parasites”]. We Continue reading
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REVIEW: No time like the present to enjoy Groundhog gem
Groundhog Day, the Old Vic Theatre, London 5/5 Not once but many times upon a time, there lived a grumpy weatherman called Phil Connors, trapped in a time loop in small-town USA – doomed to repeat the same day over and over again until he learnt to change his ways. So goes the premise of Continue reading
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OPINION: Corbyn’s contempt for Israel inspires Jew hatred in the Labour movement
Q: What is it about Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party that anti-Semites find so attractive? A: Jeremy Corbyn. The Labour leader appears to hate Israel and all it stands for. The psychopaths of Hamas seem to be his “friends”, and Israel his enemy. He has an unshakable one-eyed view of the Jewish state – refusing even to Continue reading
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OPINION: Why bashing the bashers is the only option
The Government today announced new regulations preventing local councils, NHS Trusts, universities and other public bodies from boycotting trade and investment with any of 162 member countries of the World Trade Organisation. Of course Canada and New Zealand don’t require such sweeping safeguards to protect their trade deals, so you don’t need to be Ban 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.
Recent Posts
- OPINION: BBC evasion as policy – our public broadcaster is public in name only
- OPINION: Twelve days that changed the Middle East and shattered the illusion of Iran
- OPINION: Where have all the grown-ups gone?
- NEWS FEATURE: Jewish trauma, from Tel Aviv to Tottenham
- INTERVIEW: The peace campaigner who came to kill
GeT RICH QUICK 