A chronological archive of everything I’ve published…
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 […]
For the JC April 2024 “He looked me over, assessed my wristwatch, considered my shoes and the likely cost of my hairdo, and tried to decide if I came from a family worth talking to; such is Italy”. In one crisp sentence, Derek B Miller sets the reader off on a magical mystery tour, revolving […]
For JN April 2024 This week’s World Central Kitchen tragedy and the death of seven foreign aid workers “could have been prevented”, according to an experienced humanitarian aid entrepreneur, and a senior American former general. Moti Kahana is an American-Israel businessman who heads the humanitarian aid agency GDC (Global Development Company), which provides logistical support […]
For Jewish News March 26 2024 Two Israeli brothers who were detained for two hours of “interrogation” by Border Force personnel at Manchester Airport have told Jewish News that once they told the officers they were Jewish, “the attitude just got worse”. Daniel Sharabi, 24, and his brother Neriya, 22, arrived in Manchester on Sunday, […]
For Jewish News March 2024 A new threat to Bevis Marks Synagogue, the oldest synagogue in Britain, has been published by the City of London. And the attempt, just two years after the City refused an application for a 47-storey tower block which would have overshadowed the synagogue, comes from the same developers — but […]
Harvey Keitel Life magazine March/April 2024 Harvey Keitel’s face is lined and craggy, as befits a Hollywood grandee of 84. But when Keitel — renowned for his roles as a villain or a thug in iconic films such as Mean Streets, Reservoir Dogs, Taxi Driver or Pulp Fiction — smiles, the years fall away as […]
For Jewish News March 2024 An essay by a British-born Israeli writer and translator (of Hebrew and Arabic) has caused uproar in the New York online literary magazine, Guernica, with 15 members of the volunteer staff resigning. Joanna Chen’s article, From the Edges of a Broken World, her second for the magazine, traces her responses […]
For Jewish News March 2024 At the end of a quiet and unassuming cul-de-sac in Hendon sits a quiet, but revolutionary, Jewish social enterprise. It’s safe to say that Gateways, an alternative kind of education facility for young people who have struggled to find their place in mainstream schools, is both unassuming and revolutionary — […]
Literary agents by Jenni Frazer March 2024 A leading literary agent says that claims that “much of literary London is a no-go zone for Jews” are “not my experience — it’s really not the case”. Stephanie Thwaites, head of the book department at the Curtis Brown Group, and is working with the Jewish Literary Foundation […]
For Jewish News March 2024 Britain’s special envoy for post-Holocaust issues, Lord Pickles, has made an impassioned plea for countries to adopt mediation rather than litigation when claimants try to recover artworks looted by the Nazis. Lord Pickles was speaking at an event jointly convened in Washington DC by the World Jewish Restitution Organisation (WJRO), […]