For the JC December 18 2020 An extraordinary story of Polish wartime rescue of Jews has emerged thanks to detective work by the country’s new ambassador in Turkey, Jakub Kumoch, and a Holocaust memoir written by a woman who benefited from the heroic work of the Polish consul at the time, Wojciech Rychlewicz. The consul […]
For Jewish News Dec 16 2020 A major row has erupted in Israel over whether or not the Jewish Agency is allowing missionary activity in its Galilee education facility, Bikat Kinarot. The Agency strenuously denies the charges, made by the Beynenu anti-missionary group — but at the same time, it is conducting an inquiry, and […]
For Jewish News Nov 2020 A remarkable picture of how the newly-signed Abraham Accords — between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Israel and Bahrain — are working in practice, emerged at a ground-breaking webinar on Wednesday, convened by the Anglo-Israel Association. For the first time, the ambassadors of the three countries in Britain, […]
For the JN Nov 29 2020 Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said he will look at the possibility of readmitting people to the party, who campaigned for other parties after leaving because of antisemitism. In a packed keynote session at the JLM conference on Sunday, more than 630 people heard Sir Keir tell an […]
For the JN Nov 29 2020 The executive director of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, Halie Soifer, told a Jewish Labour Movement audience on Sunday that president-elect Joe Biden would not move the American Embassy back to Tel Aviv from its new home in Jerusalem — “which we recognise as the capital of Israel”. […]
For the JN Nov 29 2020 Former Foreign Secretary David Miliband has admitted that watching the situation in the Labour Party today was “frustrating”, mixed with “admiration for those fighting an incredibly good fight”. Speaking to an audience of more than 300 at the Jewish Labour Movement’s one-day conference, Mr Miliband, who is now chief […]
For the JC December 2020 He might easily be described as the Marmite of the Jewish world: a communal gadfly who has garnered love and hate in almost equal parts, and almost certainly the only one ever to attract a multi-million dollar lawsuit from a global Jewish body (the World Jewish Congress). Now the writer […]
For the JC Nov 2020 Most 100-year-olds are likely to celebrate their milestone birthday with a cup of tea or — occasionally — a drink of whisky. But — thanks to two of his children — the former head of air operations of Israel’s nascent air force, Harold “Smoky” Simon, took to the skies. South […]
Lord Sacks obituary for The Guardian November 8 2020 The former chief rabbi, Jonathan Sacks, Lord Sacks, who has died of cancer aged 72, was a much admired figure in both the Jewish and non-Jewish world. Even though his writ did not run across all of the Orthodox community – and not at all in […]
For the JC Oct 23 2020 They call one the “Legal Fashionista” and the other the “Magenta Yenta”. But behind the catchy nicknames, Orthodox Jewish lawyers Sara Shulevitz (the “fashionista”) and Mindy Meyer, the New York-based pink peril, are go-getting tough lawyers who are out to “get the job done”. The two women have a […]