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 […]
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 […]