 Norman Lebrecht

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Revealed: BBC is koshering The Archers

The Beeb has a new Jewish chair. Change is afoot

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A healthcare worker holds a Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine at Christine E. Lynn Rehabilitation Center, in Miami, Florida on December 30, 2020. (Photo by Eva Marie UZCATEGUI / AFP) (Photo by EVA MARIE UZCATEGUI/AFP via Getty Images)

Hang in there. Grim times come and go

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Cher Monsieur Macron, let’s not let le Brexit get between us

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Netflix is giving religion a run for its money

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Don’t be upset by Dahl, just don’t read him

'When I heard he was antisemitic, my first response was: they couldn’t find a better writer?'

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December 17, 2020 10:50

Don’t be upset by Dahl, just don’t read him

The Irish? We’re cut from the same cloth

'We’re both marginal to Europe and thrive on an edgy disposition. We both used violence to wrest national sovereignty from the Brits.'

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December 14, 2020 11:36

The Irish? We’re cut from the same cloth

Ask not for whom the bells jingle

The prime minister has decreed we will have Christmas - and we all know what that means for Jews

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December 4, 2020 13:13

In memory of our quiet achievers

'This November, when the JC’s social and personal pages are filling up faster than ICU beds, I hardly dare to look for fear of who I might find'

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November 26, 2020 12:56

Meet Barbara Emhoff, mother of Doug, the Jewish lawyer married to Vice President Kamala Harris

Kamala’s Jewish mother in law could be coming to the White House

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November 19, 2020 11:40

Meet Barbara Emhoff, mother of Doug, the Jewish lawyer married to Vice President Kamala Harris

The Westminster Holocaust memorial is a pile of junk

'Lady Deech and Brian Doctor QC make an irrefutable case which shows the memorial to be unsightly, ineffectual, insecure and unrepresentative of British values'

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November 12, 2020 15:04

The Westminster Holocaust memorial is a pile of junk

Shuls are closing but I’m trying to count my blessings

'A few hotheads in my sect are threatening to gather for private prayer in full shawls and leather straps outside the gates every morning. If I can’t stop them, I might just join them'

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November 5, 2020 13:30

Shuls are closing but I’m trying to count my blessings

Shapps plan is on a road to nowhere

He has told the mayor that, in order to pay for empty buses and trains during Covid, Sadiq Khan should extend a £15 congestion charge all the way round the North and South Circular roads

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October 29, 2020 11:48