Nicole Lampert

Nicole Lampert is a newspaper journalist and best-selling ghost writer

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‘Mel Brooks’ comedy is all about fearlessness, and there’s a lesson there for UK Jews’

Comedy creator Dan Patterson tells the JC how the legendary funnyman epitomises American-Jewish confidence

3 min read

Brooks in the 1983 music video Hitler Rap

Police and protesters near the Great Israeli Real Estate show at the United Synagogue, Edgware, on June 14, 2026 (Image: X)

For people like the Edgware shul protesters, anything Israeli is illegal and immoral

3 min read

Nadia Sawalha attends the 'Misan Harriman: Shoot the People' Premiere at Rich Mix London, England. (Photo by Kate Green/Getty Images for SXSW London)

Call for Loose Women to drop Nadia Sawalha is about accountability, say TV executives

3 min read

Michal Herzog speaking at Heaton Park Synagogue

Israel’s First Lady: ‘There has been a dark cloud over all of us – but we Jews understand that we are one community’

6 min read

‘Hold those you love close and always be proud Jews’

In London this week, former hostages Guy Gilboa-Dalal, Eli Sharabi and Alon Ohel reveal life after captivity

4 min read

May 7, 2026 11:34

Shunned by commercial cinemas, Israeli film festival Seret launches in a Westminster conference room

All the movies will be shown in privately hired screening rooms or at JW3

3 min read

April 24, 2026 12:49

Daniela Grudsky and Danny Cohen at the Seret launch in the Commons

What a Green takeover would mean for the Jewish residents of Hackney and Haringey

Zack Polanksi’s party is set to make historic gains on May 7 – and it’s a worrying prospect for many

5 min read

April 22, 2026 12:21

These London boroughs are set to become two of the most fiercely fought battlegrounds in next month’s local elections (Photo: Getty Images)

I reported on Zack Polanski. His thin-skinned response was telling

In just 48 hours, the Green Party leader fired off 32 tweets at or about me and the paper I write for – showing a rather different side to his nicey-nicey, ‘peace and love’ image

4 min read

March 30, 2026 18:43

Green Party leader Zack Polanski (Image: Getty)

Jewish NHS staff reveal antisemitism ordeal to Wes Streeting in emotional meeting

Health Secretary visibly moved by testimony from two women in the health service that left him feeling ‘ashamed’

3 min read

March 18, 2026 16:15

Health Secretary Wes Streeting (Photo: Getty Images)

There’s no easy cure for the world’s longest hatred. But this book is a start

This rigorous guide works for Jewish readers trying to comprehend how this irrational madness is happening again, and for allies grappling with the question of why people hate Jews

2 min read

February 12, 2026 15:48

World expert: David Harris and his new book

‘I understand antisemitism because I was born in Russia’

Nicole Lampert talks to the author of a new guide for students on how to fight Jew-hatred on campus

5 min read

January 22, 2026 13:31

Back in the USSR: Izabella Tabarovsky and refuseniks with Natan Sharansky on the right

Exclusive: Days after October 7, NEU teachers shared lesson plan asking pupils if they would ‘fight back’ if they lived in Gaza

Teaching material appeared to justify the Hamas atrocities, Jewish leaders said

7 min read

January 21, 2026 12:47

MP Damien Egan (left) and NEU General Secretary Daniel Kebede

From stage to screen, the world now knows – the show must and will go on for proudly Jewish stars

2025 was a year of glittering prizes – but also when big names found the courage to speak out in defiance of the cancel brigade

5 min read

December 30, 2025 15:27

Scarlett Johansson attends the premiere for "Eleanor The Great" during the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2025. (Image: Getty)

A book of Jewish thought that is balm for the mind at this time of uncertainty

The much-loved compendium has been republished in a special new edition to commemorate October 7

4 min read

December 22, 2025 12:34

The inside page of A Book of Jewish Thoughts

Immortalised in bronze: the face of death camp survivor who transformed child psychotherapy

Dr Lydia Tischler sits as latest in a series of busts by sculptress Frances Segelman of Jews who emerged from the Holocaust to settle in Britain

2 min read

December 10, 2025 13:46

Survivor Dr Lydia Tischler, who received an MBE earlier this month, here sitting for her bust by the sculptor Frances Segelman

High teas, hot springs and Jane Austen: Finding winter wellness in Bath

The geothermal hot spot in Somerset offers a relaxing retreat for us world-weary Jews, and all the romance of an Austen novel

3 min read

December 10, 2025 13:40

A view from the top of Thermae Bath Spa on a winter morning.

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Nicole Lampert

Latest from Nicole Lampert

‘Mel Brooks’ comedy is all about fearlessness, and there’s a lesson there for UK Jews’

For people like the Edgware shul protesters, anything Israeli is illegal and immoral

Call for Loose Women to drop Nadia Sawalha is about accountability, say TV executives

Israel’s First Lady: ‘There has been a dark cloud over all of us – but we Jews understand that we are one community’

More from Nicole Lampert

‘Hold those you love close and always be proud Jews’

Shunned by commercial cinemas, Israeli film festival Seret launches in a Westminster conference room

What a Green takeover would mean for the Jewish residents of Hackney and Haringey

I reported on Zack Polanski. His thin-skinned response was telling

Jewish NHS staff reveal antisemitism ordeal to Wes Streeting in emotional meeting

There’s no easy cure for the world’s longest hatred. But this book is a start

‘I understand antisemitism because I was born in Russia’

Exclusive: Days after October 7, NEU teachers shared lesson plan asking pupils if they would ‘fight back’ if they lived in Gaza

From stage to screen, the world now knows – the show must and will go on for proudly Jewish stars

A book of Jewish thought that is balm for the mind at this time of uncertainty

Immortalised in bronze: the face of death camp survivor who transformed child psychotherapy

High teas, hot springs and Jane Austen: Finding winter wellness in Bath