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We have still not been fully liberated from Auschwitz

The lesson of the past 15 months is that the greatest calamity to have befallen a people – to have befallen the Jews – remains unknown or disbelieved, no matter how often we recount it

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The March Against Antisemitism in November 2023 (Getty Images)

Scenes of houses destroyed when Hamas terrorists infiltrated Kibbutz Be'eri, and 30 other nearby communities in Southern Israel on October 7, murdering over 1200 people and seizing over 200 hostages (Photo by Edi Israel/Flash90

‘Politics stepped in where pity alone, at least for a while, should have spoken’

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Protesters show their support for Palestinians during a rally in front of the Opera House in Sydney on October 9, 2023. (Photo by Izhar KHAN / AFP)

Why are Jews uncomfortable in Australia? Two words: The left

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Gender rights activists and supporters of LGBTQ community express solidarity with Palestinians, as they walk the queer pride parade in New Delhi on November 26, 2023. (Photo by Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP) (Photo by SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Jews don’t need the cult of woke – it doesn’t care for us

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Some of us look like Einstein, others like Barbie. Go figure

To insist only a Jew should play a Jew, is to consent to a demeaning stereotype

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August 31, 2023 12:30

Some of us look like Einstein, others like Barbie. Go figure

Jews playing cricket? Now you’re really creasing me up

Jokes aside, the sport, by its very nature, has plenty of appeal for Jews, as an exhibition at Lord's shows

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July 6, 2023 10:53

Jewish Community and cricket drinks event

From Saul to David, Jews always did a good coronation

Charles will emerge, as did King Saul, no longer the man he was

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May 4, 2023 11:45

LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 18: Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall sit during State Opening of Parliament in the House of Lords at the Palace of Westminster on May 18, 2016 in London, England. The State Opening of Parliament is the formal start of the parliamentary year. This year's Queen's Speech, setting out the government's agenda for the coming session, is expected to outline policy on prison reform, tuition fee rises and reveal the potential site of a UK spaceport. (Photo by Arthur Edwards - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

My first book was 40 years ago and I’m still worrying about it

It's 40 years since the publication of my first novel, and I can still hear the objections...

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March 16, 2023 14:11

My first book was 40 years ago and I’m still worrying about it

Is it time for Jews to do less yearning and more living?

Howard Jacobson - one of our greatest living authors - argues for a new positivity towards Jewishness and Israel

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March 2, 2023 13:20

Is it time for Jews to do less yearning and more living?

Jews in their own words… so long as they don’t say ‘Israel’

For all their differences, Jonathan Freedland and David Baddiel's views on Israel converge in the old discomfort: Israel just won’t give them the Jew they want

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February 9, 2023 09:39

Jews in their own words… so long as they don’t say ‘Israel’

British Jews have had good reason to feel safe under the Royal Family

'As the Coronation service progressed, it became impossible not to notice the Church of England’s - and therefore the Queen’s - essential Jewish lineage.'

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September 21, 2022 11:31