A chronological archive of everything I’ve published…
Nir Kedar for Jewish News Life mag November 2024 We are only a few minutes into our Zoom interview when Professor Nir Kedar’s screen goes dark and, apologetically, he says there are sirens and he needs to run to a shelter. This is the sad reality of life in Israel today — but the remarkable […]
For Jewish News magazine December 2024 We are inside what is, for me, unfamiliar territory — a boxing gym in the Sheffield suburb of Darnall, home to a large Muslim population. About 30 small boys (and one little girl dressed in Barbie pink from head to toe) are variously jumping in star shapes, practising sit-ups, […]
For Jewish News September 2024 The tormented faces of the young survivors of the Nova festival massacre last October stay with the viewer, long after the conclusion of Yariv Mozer’s painful and powerful film, We Will Dance Again. Scheduled to be screened in the prime time Storyville strand on BBC2 on September 26, the film […]
For Jewish News August 5 2024 The “small but tight-knit” Southport Jewish community has said prayers and taken part in the town’s vigil for those killed and wounded in last week’s tragic knife attack on a children’s dance class. Victor Isenwater, chair of Southport Hebrew Congregation, told Jewish News: ““It is a difficult time for […]
For Jewish News August 5 2024 He is the managing director of one of the biggest kitchen appliance companies in Britain — and certainly understands what it means to be boiling hot. But Stephen Johnson’s life in August is set to be very different, as he aims to raise at least £50,000 by walking the […]
For Jewish News July 2024 The artist Leon Fenster now walks around London eyeing up likely spaces for one of his gigantic murals — buoyed with the success of his newest installation on the walls of JW3, the stories and legends of Jewish London. Fenster, who was brought up in Edgware and Stanmore before his […]
For Jewish News June 2024 Heartbreaking testimonies of everyday heroism moved an audience close to tears as the Jewish community marked the 80th anniversary of D Day, or Operation Overlord, the Allies’ move into Nazi-occupied Europe which turned the tide of the Second World War. David Teacher, who was a member of the RAF Beach […]
Bury South constituency profile June 2024 The strangest thing about the Bury South constituency —part of the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester —is that it does not actually include the rambunctious market town of Bury itself. That honour belongs to the neighbouring constituency of Bury North, currently the most marginal seat in Britain as it […]
For Jewish News May 2024 Dr Ed Abrahamson, who cancelled his family’s bursary for disadvantaged students at Trinity College Dublin, in protest at the university’s failure to protect Jewish students, told Jewish News this week that no attempt was made by Trinity to persuade him to change his mind. Instead, he said, Trinity had “given […]
For Jewish News April 2024 Bneyah Moshe’s arrival into the world has become one of the most talked-about births at Haifa’s Rambam Health Care Campus. For the baby’s parents, Astar Moshe and Shlomi Tobi, are survivors of the Nova music festival massacre on October 7 last year, and the need to save their future child […]