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

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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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Welwyn synagogue's gardener is blooming at 104

From the JC Archive: October 5 1900

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From the JC archive: October 4 1974

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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)

It’s not easy being caught between two cultures

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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 17:54

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 16:46

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 19:02

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

Canterbury tales

Venture to the Garden of England to discover coast, candle-making and centuries of history in Kent

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August 22, 2021 17:06

My rainbow baby, born after nine anxious months

Carrie Johnson, wife of the prime minister, is expecting a 'rainbow baby' - one born after pregnancy loss. Keren David recalls her similar experience

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August 5, 2021 10:33

Pretty woman holding a newborn baby in her arms

The bar on female rabbis is about economics

The men in authority use halacha as an excuse — they are really protecting their position

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July 15, 2021 15:56

Vector illustration of a woman symbol surrounded by men symbols in a repeating pattern against a purple background.

Welcome back to our house of treasures

The Jewish Museum London is about to reopen. Keren David had a preview.

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July 8, 2021 12:31

Jewish Museum London names reopening date

Camden museum will welcome back visitors on July 11 after successful online programme

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June 30, 2021 20:59

‘An entire world in one album’

A young girl's 'friendship book' was one of the only things saved when her family was murdered by the Nazis. She and her friends would have been completely forgotten - but writer Claudia Carli vowed to uncover their lost histories

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June 30, 2021 14:40

Yo ho ho and a couple of mums

When Jodie Lancet-Grant couldn't find picture books to reflect her LGBT family she wrote her own - with a twist

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June 24, 2021 12:47

There is something Jewish about the Windsors

'I should like to propose a Yiddishe update in which the Royal family is not deposed, but transposed — reimagined as a Jewish clan in North West London.'

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May 27, 2021 11:06