A chronological archive of everything I’ve published…
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 […]
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 […]