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TRAVEL: Baby comes too in family-friendly Cyprus
Richard Ferrer and his wife Jenny took their nine-month-old on her first holiday to one of Cyprus’ most luxurious five-star family hotels – and discovered that ‘child friendly’ doesn’t have to mean waterslides and chicken nuggets for tea Baby days are sooooo much longer than normal days. You cuddle, feed and dress the little cherub,… Continue reading
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OPINION: Benjamin Netanyahu hears evil, sees evil and speaks nonsense
In a few weeks time, during the festival of Passover, Jews worldwide will recite the words, “Next year in Jerusalem” – expressing an ancient ambition that every Jew might one day return (note my Dr Evil finger quotes around the following word…) ‘home’. For the eight million Jews who currently don’t reside in Israel, this… Continue reading
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OPINION: For the first time, the fear factor has entered our lives
Are these the darkest days for European Jews since the Holocaust? Today French Jews live in fear. The day after Yohan Cohen, Yoav Hattab, Philipe Braham and Francois-Michel Saada were slaughtered while doing their Shabbat shopping, Paris’ synagogues were half empty. Many congregants were too scared to show up. This week some kosher delis and… Continue reading
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OPINION: We can be friends, just don’t mention the war
If 2014 taught us anything about fostering warm relations between British Jews and Muslims, it was simply this: don’t mention the war. I mentioned it once, in the opening sentence, but I think I got away with it all right. So it’s all forgotten now and let’s hear no more about it. Discuss charitable initiatives; bang… Continue reading
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VIDEO: The Sunday Times’ Liddle’s Got Issues: The New Anti-Semitism
Discussing Mario Balotelli, football anti-Semitism and how the plight of the Palestinians is used as a stick to beat Jewish communities worldwide, on The Sunday Times’ Liddle’s Got Issues: The new anti-Semitism. Broadcast, 7/12/14. Watch: Continue reading
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OPINION: Why be silent Baroness Warsi, when you can be spiteful?
If a reminder were needed of how irrationally polarised opinion on Israel and the Palestinians has become it arrived right on cue, on Tuesday morning, courtesy of the Twitter account of Baroness Warsi. The former Foreign Office minister, who resigned in August over the Government’s response to the Gaza conflict, felt the appropriate response to news… Continue reading
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VIDEO: How do you deal with stress?
Editor of Jewish News, Richard Ferrer, broadcaster Ed Adoo and comedian Katie Lane discuss how they cope… Broadcast on London Live, 6/10/14 Click here to view Continue reading
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OPINION: The monster who makes Kardashian read like Kipling
The publishing world is plagued with simple-minded books. Toe-curling examples include Kardashian Konfidential by Kim Kardashian, Learning To Fly by Victoria Beckham and the autobiographical oeuvre of Sharon Osbourne. All would benefit from concise editor’s notes at the start of each chapter to help the poor reader navigate the dross. But of all the rambling, incoherent nonsense ever committed… Continue reading
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INTERVIEW: Darhling… can we talk? It’s Rivers in full flow
It’s the week before the 2008 Oscars and Joan Rivers is noisily noshing on a protein-packed broccoli and cauliflower salad. “Sorry about all the loud chomp, chomp noises,” she loudly chomp-chomps down the phone from New York. “I’m shaping up for the Academy Awards. Those red carpet photographers can be so cruel!” The scathing 75-year-old’s… Continue reading
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OPINION At the end of it all, the long grass has turned into a thicket
An open-ended ceasefire came into effect on Tuesday between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. If not peace, then at least this is quiet. For now. Fifty days of fighting – Israel’s longest conflict since the 1948 War of Independence – left more than 2,200 people dead, tens of thousands displaced and great swathes of… 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 