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‘The strange and beautiful love story of the Maori and the Jews’

The tight relationship between the two peoples predates the founding of New Zealand in 1840, and the Maori case for self-determination draws parallels with Zionism. Kiwi journalist David Cohen reports

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A haka in Queenstown, New Zealand, and the Jewish-Maori film-maker Takia Waititi

An anti-Israel rally in Dublin last month

‘I’m half-Jewish and half-Irish – this is how I see the Ireland of today’

6 min read

Aggressively cerebral: (left to right) Irving Howe, Norman Podhoretz, Ronnie A Grinberg and Norman Mailer

Remembering the golden age of the New York Jewish intellectual male

4 min read

My journalist idol was better in print

4 min read

Jewish body image is wrapped up in delusion and awareness

From King David to Daniel Mendoza, Jews have always defied the caricature of being weak and pathetic specimens

4 min read

December 8, 2023 17:00

Jewish body image is wrapped up in delusion and awareness

Charlie Chaplin, the pianist he hailed as a genius… and me

Clara Haskil’s musicianship was revered by aficianados, but her body’s frailty denied her the star career her talent deserved

4 min read

June 15, 2023 11:03

Charlie Chaplin, the pianist he hailed as a genius… and me

When Einstein and Freud put tensions aside to write on war

Despite a mutual loathing, when the League of Nations asked the two giants to collaborate over a pamphlet, they agreed

5 min read

April 28, 2022 13:57

When Einstein and Freud put tensions aside to write on war

David Cohen

Latest from David Cohen

‘The strange and beautiful love story of the Maori and the Jews’

‘I’m half-Jewish and half-Irish – this is how I see the Ireland of today’

Remembering the golden age of the New York Jewish intellectual male

My journalist idol was better in print

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