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 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 […]
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 […]
For the Sunday Telegraph October 1 2023 For decades, the police station in Iași stood as a grim reminder of one of the darkest chapters in Romania’s history. In its courtyard in June 1941, some 13,500 Jews – more than a tenth of the city’s population – were rounded up and slaughtered by a mob […]
For Jewish News August 2023 One of the most vehement critics of the Iranian regime, Vahid Beheshti, says he believes “we are seeing the imminent end of the regime. At any moment, we can expect the final game”. And the British-Iranian national, speaking on the 166th day of his sit-in protest outside the Foreign Office […]
For Jewish News August 3 2023 Hundreds of people, young and old, crowded into the Jewish Museum in Camden Town on Sunday afternoon to bid an emotional farewell to the charity’s building, which has closed after more than a decade on the site. Moderated by interim director Sue Shave and her predecessor Frances Jeens, who […]
For Jewish News June 9 2023 UJIA has distributed a new policy making clear that it will not support projects “undertaken in a manner which treats areas being the Green Line” as being part of Israel – in a move which it suggests was essential to saving Israel tours for hundreds of teens this summer. Jewish […]