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 […]
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 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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]