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Book review: Peering into the black hole and dirty soul of the Weimar Republic

This is a fascinating study of inter-war Germany, but there are big Jewish gaps

2 min read

Key figures in a tumultuous epoch: (left to right) Albert Einstein, Joseph Roth, Rosa Luxemburg, Walter Benjamin and Stefan Zweig

Rabbinical scholars: Rabbi Dr Raphael Zarum, Louis Jacobs, Joseph Hertz and David Nieto. Far left: Rabbi Dr Zarum’s book

Questioning Belief, by Raphael Zarum – review: An essential resource that helps integrate Judaism with modernity

2 min read

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It might not feel like it but the future is bright for Anglo-Jewry

5 min read

We were arguing in 1841 — and happily, the broiges is still going

4 min read

Obituary: Lady Lira Winston

Jewish Continuity leader whose charisma and soft power helped transform Jewish education

3 min read

February 11, 2022 00:00

Leonard Cohen’s mystical tunes fused Judaism and Christianity

He fell out with the Montreal Jewish community in which he grew up and went on to embrace both spiritual traditions

5 min read

November 4, 2021 12:00

Leonard Cohen’s mystical tunes fused Judaism and Christianity

Rabbi Louis Jacobs: the battle of ideas explodes

The second of a two-part series based on a new biography of the minister. This week, the events that led to the community’s greatest-ever schism

5 min read

November 26, 2020 12:41

Rabbi Louis Jacobs: the battle of ideas explodes

Louis Jacobs: the rabbi who rethought British Jewish life

The first of a two-part series based on a new biography of the minister, whose search for a synthesis between liberalism and Orthodoxy contributed towards the community’s greatest-ever schism

5 min read

November 19, 2020 10:41

Louis Jacobs: the rabbi who rethought British Jewish life

Obituary: Joan Freedman

Supporting families at Lockerbie - the Jewish Care pioneer who promoted mental health awareness

2 min read

August 16, 2018 08:31

Harry Freedman

Latest from Harry Freedman

Book review: Peering into the black hole and dirty soul of the Weimar Republic

Questioning Belief, by Raphael Zarum – review: An essential resource that helps integrate Judaism with modernity

It might not feel like it but the future is bright for Anglo-Jewry

We were arguing in 1841 — and happily, the broiges is still going

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