Rabbi Pinter: A most faithful manMaurice Glasman reflects on his friend, who died earlier this week after contracting coronavirus6 min read
Please write this on my tomb: The thing I love most is being a YidIn the final part of his account of travelling to say Kaddish for his grandfather, Maurice Glasman realises who he was really looking for all along33 min read
I thanked my Zaida for sacrificing this splendour so I could liveIn part four, Maurice Glasman finally gets to say Kaddish in his grandfather's Ukranian shtetl, with the help of the last Jew living there23 min read
In Ukraine, all that God gave is good, all that man made is rottenIn part three of Lord Glasman's account of his journey to his Zaida's birthplace, he sets off from Manor House station, not knowing what he will find22 min read
Remember the Yidden in all the mayhem of their disputed visionsLord Glasman went on a journey through Ukraine to find his Zaida's shtetl. An archivist helps him track it down in the second of five instalments of his moving, funny and thought provoking account of what he found10 min read||August 9, 2019 13:50
Maurice Glasman: No one had a good word to say about my ZaidaThree months ago, Lord Glasman went on a journey through Ukraine to find his Zaida's shtetl. The JC publishes the first of five instalments of his moving, funny and thought provoking account of what he found21 min read||August 1, 2019 12:17