April 17, 2020 09:36

Rabbi Pinter: A most faithful man

Maurice Glasman reflects on his friend, who died earlier this week after contracting coronavirus

August 28, 2019 13:36

Please write this on my tomb: The thing I love most is being a Yid

In the final part of his account of travelling to say Kaddish for his grandfather, Maurice Glasman realises who he was really looking for all along

August 19, 2019 13:48

I thanked my Zaida for sacrificing this splendour so I could live

In part four, Maurice Glasman finally gets to say Kaddish in his grandfather's Ukranian shtetl, with the help of the last Jew living there

August 15, 2019 11:53

In Ukraine, all that God gave is good, all that man made is rotten

In 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 find

August 09, 2019 14:50

Maurice Glasman: Remember the Yidden in all the mayhem of their disputed visions

Lord 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 found

August 01, 2019 13:17

Maurice Glasman: No one had a good word to say about my Zaida

Three 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 found