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

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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From the JC archive: November 15, 1918

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From the JC archive: November 2, 1956

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From the JC archive: October 22, 1985

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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

Members of the Nationalist Socialist Movement (L-R) Colin Jordan, John Tyndall and Roland Kerr-Ritchie, on their way to the Old Bailey to face charges under the Public Order Act, London, October 15th 1962. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Welwyn synagogue's gardener is blooming at 104

For decades, Sam Ostro tended the gardens of the Hertfordshire town's shul

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October 8, 2021 09:07

Welwyn synagogue's gardener is blooming at 104

From the JC Archive: October 5 1900

Dreyfus’s plight, Boer war soldiers and the election

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October 7, 2021 12:30

From the JC archive: October 4 1974

Three circus clowns and a first ‘girl rabbi’

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September 30, 2021 14:37

It’s not easy being caught between two cultures

I brought my children up in Holland and recognise some of Emma Raducanu’s challenges

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September 24, 2021 11:58

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 11: Emma Raducanu of Great Britain celebrates winning match point to defeat Leylah Annie Fernandez of Canada during the second set of their Women's Singles final match on Day Thirteen of the 2021 US Open at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 11, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)

Robert Peston: the outsider who wants to include us all

ITN's political editor has written a thriller - with a Jewish hero. But how much is fact and how much is fiction?

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September 23, 2021 16:54

F63M1D Robert Peston meets Nick Robinson at Cheltenham Literature Festival Featuring: Robert Peston Where: Cheltenham, United Kingdom When: 10 Oct 2015

Manchester’s buzz

In a city with a talent for reinvention, find a string of new reasons to plan another visit

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September 12, 2021 15:46

Me and You: ‘I understand Dov and he does me’

Lily Ebert is a survivor of Auschwitz, Dov Forman is one of her 34 great-grandchildren and has taken her testimony about the Shoah to social media - they have more than a million followers on TikTok, and published a book last week

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September 9, 2021 18:02