For Jewish News Feb 2025 Thousands of Israelis, many waving national flags or orange balloons, lined the streets on Wednesday morning as a funeral procession took place for the three murdered members of the Bibas family whose capture by Hamas terrorists on 7 October 2023 gripped the world. Shiri Bibas and her two red-headed sons, […]
For Jewish News Feb 2025 The rain poured down like tears — and then the tears poured like rain, as a grim-faced crowd gathered opposite Downing Street in Whitehall on Thursday to pay tribute to the four dead Israelis who had been finally returned home by Hamas that morning. Under the auspices of Stop the […]
For Jewish News June 2024 Heartbreaking testimonies of everyday heroism moved an audience close to tears as the Jewish community marked the 80th anniversary of D Day, or Operation Overlord, the Allies’ move into Nazi-occupied Europe which turned the tide of the Second World War. David Teacher, who was a member of the RAF Beach […]
For Jewish News May 2024 Dr Ed Abrahamson, who cancelled his family’s bursary for disadvantaged students at Trinity College Dublin, in protest at the university’s failure to protect Jewish students, told Jewish News this week that no attempt was made by Trinity to persuade him to change his mind. Instead, he said, Trinity had “given […]
For JC Rosh Hashanah magazine September 2023 Exactly 77 years ago, on September 18 1946, a Jewish woman, Rachel Auerbach, went to the ruins of a house in Warsaw, the streets unrecognisable after the destruction of the ghetto by the Nazis in April and May 1943. Together with Hersz Wasser and his wife Bluma, Rachel […]
For Jewish Insider Washington DC October 20 2022 It’s probably safe to say that no Friday night Shabbat dinner invitation ever landed quite like Londoner Dalia Lister’s: You’re not coming here to sit in a corner of the room with your friends, the invite warned, adding, if you’re not going to participate, you’re not welcome […]
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 by Jenni Frazer Nov 2020 The year is 1841 — coincidentally the same year as the JC was established — and we are on a ship bound for Tasmania, sailing from London. And the passengers? One hundred and eighty women, all convicted of a variety of petty crimes. It’s a long journey […]
For JN December 2020 Martin Scorsese, one of the world’s leading film directors, has warmly accepted an invitation to teach a masterclass at Tel Aviv’s prestigious Steve Tisch film and television school when coronavirus restrictions are lifted globally. Mr Scorsese made his pledge in an hour-long discussion with lecturers and students of the film school, […]
For the JC July 2020 A 16-year campaign to recognise the Jewish heritage of a Battle of Britain pilot has ended in disappointment, after the Battle of Britain monuments team ruled out any change to its memorial in London. Geoffrey Ernest Goodman was born in Haifa, on August 10 1920, when Palestine was ruled by […]