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• OPINION: Uighurs’ plight touches the rawest Jewish nerve

  By richardferrer on July 24, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  After 75 years, the two tonnes of human hair piled up to the ceiling in Auschwitz is disintegrating. Only the tightly bound children’s plaits retain their shape. The Nazis, who were big on euphemisms, called their depraved plunder “human recycling”… Read More ›

• OPINION: Jewish News is back, more energised and ambitious than ever

  By richardferrer on April 28, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  If like me, your sense of time is all over the place at the moment (is it April or May?), you’ll be forgiven for thinking the Jewish News is yesterday’s news. After all, just seven days ago, I wrote 600 misty-eyed words… Read More ›

• OPINION: Without the JN and JC, we’ll all feel less connected

  By richardferrer on April 28, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Wednesday was an emotional day for current and former employees of the Jewish News. The announcement that the newspaper – a beloved fixture in Shabbat shopping bags for 23 years – along with the Jewish Chronicle, the world’s oldest Jewish… Read More ›

• OPINION: Keep talking about it to keep it in the past

  By richardferrer on January 27, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Most Holocaust survivors I meet don’t live as victims. Ask and they will talk openly and honestly about the loved ones they lost and the horrors they saw and suffered, while insisting you eat half their kitchen. But for them,… Read More ›

• OPINION: The future ain’t what it used to be

  By richardferrer on December 18, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Car workers in Birmingham, shopkeepers in Sedgefield, market traders in Norwich, steelworkers in Sheffield, greengrocers in Great Yarmouth, fishmongers in Falmouth, bus drivers in Bolsover, waitresses in Workington. In the end, after all the fear and doubt, the message rang  far… Read More ›

• OPINION: Can everyone PLEASE stop using the ‘A’ word?

  By richardferrer on December 5, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  The Jewish community has always proudly defined itself by the contribution it makes to British life. As the Chief Rabbi emphasised this week to devastating effect, thanks to the Labour Party it is now tragically defined by antisemitism. And, quite… Read More ›

• TRAVEL: A whole new vista for Tel Aviv

  By richardferrer on November 15, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Hilton Tel Aviv, one of Israel’s oldest and most adored luxury brands, has transformed its top floors into an exclusive boutique hotel within a hotel. Richard Ferrer checks in. It sounds like an idea for a daytime television show: transform… Read More ›

• OPINION: What horror might we wake to on Friday the 13th?

  By richardferrer on November 7, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  READERS of a sensitive disposition, look away now. In a few weeks’ time Britain’s prime minister could be a man who refused to sing the national anthem; paid tribute to IRA terrorists; considers the psychopaths of Hamas and Hezbollah his… Read More ›

• FEATURE: I’ve never looked so good

  By richardferrer on November 4, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  It wasn’t the countless mornings wishing I could find my glasses so I could find my glasses, or the countless nights I slept in contact lenses and woke up looking like I’d stumbled off the red eye from Rio. What… Read More ›

• OPINION: Being in shul felt like being at the scene of the crime

  By richardferrer on October 15, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  I’m not religious, but I still went to synagogue yesterday for Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. This I did for two reasons: to keep my dad company (my father who art in Streatham, not my father… Read More ›

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