For the Times of Israel March 22 2020 As Shabbat concluded this week, a new alarming video went around the strictly Orthodox community in the UK. Yitzchok Kornbluh from Stamford Hill, London — home to thousands of Charedi Jews — took to the screen in lament. He had heard, he said, that despite the danger […]
UPDATE: As of March 16 JW3 has closed indefinitely because of Corona so the meeting unlikely to take place Culture wars meeting for JC March 5 2020 by Jenni Frazer An urgent meeting to discuss the future of Anglo-Jewish cultural institutions — and their funding — has been called by three British Jewish academics. The […]
Steve McCabe for JN March 2020 by Jenni Frazer The new chair of Labour Friends of Israel in Parliament, Steve McCabe, has described outgoing Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn as “deluded” if he believes he can serve as shadow foreign secretary in any future Opposition grouping. Mr McCabe, MP for Birmingham Selly Oak, told Jewish News: […]
Ida Schuster for JC by Jenni Frazer March 2020 Ida Schuster is, hands down, the grande dame of Scottish theatre and the pride of Glasgow Jewry. And at 101 — Ida was born at the very end of the First World War, in 1918 — she has become almost certainly the world’s oldest podcaster, enthusiastically […]
Sadiq/diplo Auschwitz 75 by Jenni Frazer Jan 2020 London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, has linked concern over aspects of Polish revisionism of the Holocaust to his decision to donate £300,000 in the city’s name to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation. Mr Khan, who attended the Auschwitz 75 commemorations on Monday, told Jewish News that “one of our […]
Auschwitz 75 for Jewish News January 2020 From being reviled as “the people with no human dignity”, what may be the last group of Holocaust survivors marked the 75th anniversary of their liberation from Auschwitz as honoured guests, in a series of emotional events in and around the former death camp. On Sunday, the eve […]
Poles for JN Jan 22 2020 from Jenni Frazer The former director of Yad Vashem’s Righteous Among the Nations department, Mordecai Paldiel, has asked for recognition for two wartime Polish diplomats whose efforts may have saved up to 8,000 Jews. Dr Paldiel, now at Yeshiva University in New York, was taking part in a panel […]
For the Jewish News Feb 28 2020 In halting Hebrew, a young woman told Rabbi David Rosen last week her name, and that she would like to visit Israel. But this was no everyday occurrence but “an electrifying and exciting” encounter between Rabbi Rosen and one of 60 or 70 young Saudi men and women […]
For the Jewish News January 2020 London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, has linked concern over aspects of Polish revisionism of the Holocaust to his decision to donate £300,000 in the city’s name to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation. Mr Khan, who attended the Auschwitz 75 commemorations on Monday, told Jewish News that “one of our concerns is […]
Auschwitz 75 for the Jewish News January 2020 From being reviled as “the people with no human dignity”, what may be the last group of Holocaust survivors marked the 75th anniversary of their liberation from Auschwitz as honoured guests, in a series of emotional events in and around the former death camp. On Sunday, the […]