A chronological archive of everything I’ve published…
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), […]
For Jewish News Feb 2024 A casual conversation with a friend that a “fun day out” could be spent, walking the length of the Northern Line from High Barnet to Morden, inspired student Eitan Okrent to think: “Why not do the whole of the Underground?” And so Tubeathon was born, a massive effort devised by […]
For Jewish News February 2024 A devastating first report on the extent of sexual abuse crimes committed by Hamas terrorists on 7 October is being presented to the United Nations — in English, so that there is no room for dismissal or misunderstanding. The report, written for the Association of Rape Crisis Centres in Israel […]
For Jewish News Feb 2024 In a gravelly voice, a man faces the camera and tells the audience: “Two old Jews on the Titanic. One starts sobbing. The other say, what are you crying for? It’s not YOUR boat”. Welcome to “Is Anything Okay?”, a series of riotous, free, online webinars from YIVO, the New […]
For the JC February 2024 Out of interest, I Googled how long it might take to walk the 90 plus kilometres from the Polish town of Mezritsh to the once important Jewish centre of Lublin. Twenty or so hours, was the answer. For Manya Wilkinson’s hapless trio of young boys trying to make the same […]
For Jewish News February 2024 One of Israel’s leading lawyers and feminists has said she feels “betrayed” by the reluctance of international women’s organisations to speak out about Israeli women who were sexually abused during the Hamas terror attacks of October 7 last year. But Ayelet Razin Bet Or, speaking to an audience at Hendon […]
Sylvan Adams for Jewish News January 2024 The Canadian-Israeli businessman Sylvan Adams, renowned for bringing both Madonna and international cycling to Israel, has made what he calls a “wow factor” donation of $100 million to Ben-Gurion University, with the aim of transforming the southern Negev. Adams, a youthful 65, is a wonderfully maverick decoration to […]
Moti Kahana for Jewish News Oct 2023 An ambitious plan to secure the release of all the remaining hostages in the Gaza Strip — together with the bodies of fallen Israel soldiers held by Hamas since 2014 — is being put together by American-Israeli entrepreneur Moti Kahana, Jewish News can reveal. The two-stage plan, put […]