Keren David

Keren David is Managing Editor of the Jewish Chronicle. She is also the award-winning author of 13 books for young adults, her most recent is Say No to the Dress, published by Barrington Stoke

Latest from Keren David

Sitting shiva for my mum was such a blessing

My experience of bereavement brought home the agony of those who suffered in lockdown

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Sitting shiva for my mum was such a blessing

Smiling female teenager is on sill, holding disclosed volume

Miri’s on a mission

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What about starting a Jewish History Month?

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Christmas Tree, Red and Green Ornaments against a Defocused Lights Background

You can keep your Christmas and its baubles!

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Don't worry, Tamsin Greig, you made a great Jewish mum

Should non-Jews have been cast as the Jewish Goodman family on the hit comedy show Friday Night Dinner?

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December 9, 2021 09:26

Television programme: Friday Night Dinner, starring Tamsin Greig as Jackie and Paul Ritter as Martin.

Women-only Hallel service group sees Chanukah boom

Five hundred women have signed up to group's Facebook page

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December 2, 2021 13:33

Two happy Jewish sisters looking and singing at a beautiful menorah candelabra glowing on the eight day of Hanukkah Jewish holiday.

Rosen's recovery

The children's writer Michael Rosen is celebrating his recovery from Covid 19 with a new book and a clutch of awards

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November 21, 2021 07:54

From the JC archive: November 15, 1918

Peace, pogroms and starvation in Syria

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November 12, 2021 12:06

From the JC archive: November 2, 1956

The Suez crisis, a schoolgirl’s experiment and a synagogue stowaway

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October 29, 2021 14:30

From the JC archive: October 22, 1985

Murder of a hostage; Sugar bucks the trend; Margaret Thatcher backs the JC

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October 22, 2021 16:59

Time to get back to seeing culture in the flesh

Organisations that transformed during lockdown need our support as live events return

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October 21, 2021 15:46

Time to get back to seeing culture in the flesh

The problem with inspirational dead Jews

Dara Horn's new book challenges the ways in which dead Jews are revered and living ones erased.

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October 21, 2021 12:43

The problem with inspirational dead Jews

From the JC archive: October 19 1962

Currently featured in the BBC series Ridley Road, here's the JC's report on the trial of British Nazi Colin Jordan - and in Germany, Nazis go on trial for the murder of tens of thousands of people

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October 17, 2021 10:39