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OPINION: With Jeremy Corbyn off the hook, Labour is again a hostile environment for Jews
‘You kick your left-wing leader out, you let your left-wing leader in . . . ” It’s been another action-packed week of Labour hokey-cokey as the party veers inextricably towards civil war over what to do with Jeremy Corbyn. The latest sucker punches in this internecine struggle began landing on Tuesday when, after five years Continue reading
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OPINION: If Starmer is serious he’ll expel Corbyn for good
Jeremy Corbyn can be accused of many things but learning from his mistakes isn’t one of them. The former Labour leader has never wanted to know what he does not know. He does not rethink, therefore he is. So don’t expect the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s withering verdict on the “inexcusable” antisemitism that poisoned Continue reading
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OPINION: The tick is nothing without the tock
My most vivid memory of my father’s parents, aside from their inability to eat spaghetti bolognaise, is the incessant tick-tock of the grandfather clock that echoed through their Whitechapel flat. I loved boasting to Grandpa Daniel and Granny Minnie that I could count up to a gazillion tick-tocks, but always got bored before 30. That Continue reading
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OPINION: Uighurs’ plight touches the rawest Jewish nerve
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” and used it to make military socks and blankets. I couldn’t shake the vision of Continue reading
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OPINION: Jewish News is back, more energised and ambitious than ever
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 about our final issue after 24 years. Well, let’s just say a week is a Continue reading
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OPINION: Without the JN and JC, we’ll all feel less connected
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 newspaper, had been put into liquidation shocked the community and trended on social media. Had the Continue reading
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OPINION: Keep talking about it to keep it in the past
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, daily life isn’t about personal suffering, it’s about warning as many young people as possible Continue reading
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OPINION: The future ain’t what it used to be
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 and wide and loud and clear, from the cities to the shires, to every nook Continue reading
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OPINION: Can everyone PLEASE stop using the ‘A’ word?
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 frankly, everyone is sick and tired of hearing it. The enormity of Ephraim Mirvis’ shocking intervention Continue reading
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TRAVEL: A whole new vista for Tel Aviv
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 one of the world’s ugliest buildings into the fanciest luxury hotel. That was the challenge 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
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- INTERVIEW: The peace campaigner who came to kill
GeT RICH QUICK 