For Jewish News March 11 2022 Holocaust survivor Steven Frank has made a heartfelt and direct plea to Prime Minister Boris Johnson to “show some humanity” by allowing Ukrainian refugees into Britain — and in a powerful symbol, Mr Frank made his plea from the White Cliffs of Dover, one of the traditional entry points […]
For Jewish News March 11 2022 A detailed explanation of the latest thinking in the S&P community is being distributed to its members this week after the Parnas Presidente, Professor Stuart Morganstein, admitted that “many people were disappointed” by the Town Hall meeting held online on February 28. In a pre-Shabbat message, he wrote: “As […]
For the JN by Jenni Frazer Nov 8 2021 Two Jewish women, TV presenters Victoria Coren Mitchell and Claudia Winkleman, have been lending support to Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of Iranian hostage Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, as he pursues a life-threatening hunger strike in central London. This week he asked the Jewish community to lend its backing […]
For the JC October 28 2021 He is the last Jew of Afghanistan, who was rescued in a courageous humanitarian mission last month after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban. But in a bizarre twist, according to his rescuer, Zebulon Simentov is refusing to go to Israel to make his home there unless he […]
For Jewish News October 11 2021 It’s the little things that catch at the heart: a bridal wreath sent to Britain on the Kindertransport; the pearl tie-pin deposited at a London branch of Barclays Bank by Marek Kellerman, a brush salesman from Bratislava, who never returned to retrieve it; a caption showing that one young […]
For Jewish News October 2021 A split has emerged in Chelsea between the long-established Chelsea Synagogue, an affiliate of the United Synagogue, and a breakaway group calling itself SW3, which launched a new modern Orthodox minyan last Shabbat. According to Aron Freedman, the man behind SW3, 83 people took part in the inaugural service, which […]
For JN October 8 2021 Talking to Miami’s Rabbi Shlomo Zalman — known as Sam — Bregman — is a little like a conversation with the Duracell Bunny. Knock him sideways in the discussion, and he pops up, keen to have another go. And the metaphor is appropriate because Rabbi Bregman has just emerged, semi-triumphant, […]
For JN October 8 2021 What is it like to grow up as the son of arguably the most famous Holocaust survivor in the world? That was the question put at AJR’s next generations conference by Stephen Smith, now UNESCO Chair on Genocide Education and Executive Director of the USC Shoah Foundation. Dr Smith, founder […]
For Jewish News October 8 2021 Fourteen young German and Polish volunteers in the UK are among nearly 200 working across Europe to confront the question of how Nazi ideology flourished. Three of the students, Merrit Jagusch, Sophia Engel and Ricarda Pasch, took part in a panel discussion at the Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) […]
For Jewish News October 8 2021 The problem of communicating between generations was tackled in a concluding discussion at the AJR conference — with panellists Angela Cohen, Hannah Goldstone, and David Clark. Danny Kalman, a trustee of the AJR, who chaired the session, is the son of a Kindertransport man from Frankfurt who arrived in […]