Ben Judah

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Don’t forget the people who are standing with us

Yes, antisemitism is surging. But the support we have across the spectrum is heartening

3 min read

Olaf Scholz (R) and Emmanuel Macron (Photo by Gregor Fischer/Getty Images)

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (2nd L) and Rabbi Yitshak Ehrenberg (L) light the first candle on a menorah candelabra to celebrate the Jewish festival of lights with the Jewish community at the Heinz Galinski School in Berlin on December 19, 2022. (Photo by John MACDOUGALL / AFP) (Photo by JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP via Getty Images)

German support for Israel is not all it may seem

3 min read

Dagestan mob showed us why Jews fled to Israel in first place

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Members of the Jewish community hold a protest against Britain's opposition Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn and anti-semitism in the Labour party, outside the British Houses of Parliament in central London on March 26, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / Tolga AKMEN (Photo credit should read TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images)

American Jews have a lot to learn from us Britons

3 min read

Learning Hebrew has given me a better read on my Jewishness

Simply learning enough Hebrew to watch a news programme can transform how you understand Israel

3 min read

August 9, 2023 17:49

An Israeli schoolgirl writing in Hebrew the saying: "Back to school" on a whiteboard.

Fear and loathing in Paris unsettles French Jews

If Macron keeps failing to bring stability through reform, it will prompt further emigration

3 min read

July 6, 2023 10:39

TOPSHOT - French riot police officers stand guard next to a burnt out trash bin during a demonstration against police in Marseille, southern France on July 1, 2023, after a fourth consecutive night of rioting in France over the killing of a teenager by police. French police arrested 1311 people nationwide during a fourth consecutive night of rioting over the killing of a teenager by police, the interior ministry said on July 1, 2023. France had deployed 45,000 officers overnight backed by light armoured vehicles and crack police units to quell the violence over the death of 17-year-old Nahel, killed during a traffic stop in a Paris suburb on June 27, 2023. (Photo by CLEMENT MAHOUDEAU / AFP) (Photo by CLEMENT MAHOUDEAU/AFP via Getty Images)

It is not hard to find a minyan in Kharkiv… but for how long?

The terrifying hypothesis of a Ukraine without Jews is rearing its ugly head once again

3 min read

June 1, 2023 11:07

A woman places a candle in front of the Menorah-shaped memorial dedicated to the victims of the Babi Yar massacre during the commemoration ceremony on the 76th anniversary in Kiev on September 29, 2017. - Ukraine marks 76 years since the Nazis slaughtered 34,000 Jews on the outskirts of Kiev during one of the worst single massacres of the Holocaust. (Photo by Genya SAVILOV / AFP) (Photo by GENYA SAVILOV/AFP via Getty Images)

Putin has destroyed the Russian Jewish revival

Jews feel the impact of the darker, more authoritarian state brought on by the Ukraine war

3 min read

May 18, 2023 11:02

Russia's President Vladimir Putin (L) speaks with Russia's chief Rabbi Berel Lazar at a ceremony marking the handover of the Schneerson library at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre in Moscow, on June 13, 2013 . Putin expressed today hope that the problem of a disputed Jewish archive, known in Russia as the Schneerson library, claimed by the United States was finally put to rest as he visited the rare collection in the newly opened Jewish Museum in Moscow. AFP PHOTO / YURI KADOBNOV (Photo credit should read YURI KADOBNOV/AFP via Getty Images)

Jewish artists are needed more than ever in this weird age of AI

Much of modern culture is an illusion but great work is being made that makes you think, see and feel things somewhere deep

3 min read

April 14, 2023 09:01

Jewish artists are needed more than ever in this weird age of AI

Israel risks becoming a true Middle East state

There are parallels to Hungary, but the more compelling model is Lebanon

3 min read

April 4, 2023 15:09

Israel risks becoming a true Middle East state

As Israel spirals into perilous tribalism, I finally hear the Prophets

I used to struggle to really hear the Prophets. Now, voices like them are so loud it’s what the Nevi’im mean that troubles me.

4 min read

February 16, 2023 11:57

As Israel spirals into perilous tribalism, I finally hear the Prophets

Sephardi lessons of moderation and balance are precious today

For the Rabbis of Sefarad, the Torah was always a guide to the world. Not, as it became for the embattled Rabbis of Ashkenaz, a wall against it

3 min read

January 26, 2023 11:59

(C) Blake Ezra Photography 2017 Balfour Declaration Ceremony at Bevis Marks Synagogue. 4th November 2017.

We must remember how they lived, not just how they died

So much of Jewish life in Europe within the past century was destroyed for ever, lost entirely from our collective memory

5 min read

January 26, 2023 10:27

We must remember how they lived, not just how they died

We must stop ignoring Israel’s Mizrahi writers

There is more than one Israeli story, says Ben Judah

2 min read

January 5, 2018 08:42

We must stop ignoring Israel’s Mizrahi writers

What futuristic American dreams are made of

What does the future hold for the Jews of America, asks Ben Judah

3 min read

November 30, 2017 13:51

What futuristic American dreams are made of

Sephardis and Mizrahis must stand up for tradition

Dominating over Orthodox Judaism is a yeshiva system that is structurally, culturally and halachically Ashkenazi

3 min read

October 27, 2017 11:10

Sephardis and Mizrahis must stand up for tradition

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Ben Judah

Latest from Ben Judah

Don’t forget the people who are standing with us

German support for Israel is not all it may seem

Dagestan mob showed us why Jews fled to Israel in first place

American Jews have a lot to learn from us Britons

More from Ben Judah

Learning Hebrew has given me a better read on my Jewishness

Fear and loathing in Paris unsettles French Jews

It is not hard to find a minyan in Kharkiv… but for how long?

Putin has destroyed the Russian Jewish revival

Jewish artists are needed more than ever in this weird age of AI

Israel risks becoming a true Middle East state

As Israel spirals into perilous tribalism, I finally hear the Prophets

Sephardi lessons of moderation and balance are precious today

We must remember how they lived, not just how they died

We must stop ignoring Israel’s Mizrahi writers

What futuristic American dreams are made of

Sephardis and Mizrahis must stand up for tradition