 Norman Lebrecht

Latest from  Norman Lebrecht

Government must get out of our private lives

It has no business to be enforcing irrational rules in private spaces, especially when it has yielded the highest Covid-19 death rate in Europe

3 min read

Government must get out of our private lives

Memory men will never be forgotten

3 min read

The women I wish I’d put in my book of Jews

4 min read

On the radar: more Charedi flight chaos

3 min read

The only brew, as prescribed in the Talmud

Coffee is for when we go abroad to frugal places like Israel, where Wissotsky tea-bags are hung out on a washing line and reused twice

3 min read

September 4, 2020 09:45

The only brew, as prescribed in the Talmud

Unorthodox gets Chasidic life — and music — wrong

The trouble begins the moment the film leaves Williamsburg, at which point it suffers a reality fail so severe as to make all that follows utterly unbelievable

3 min read

August 27, 2020 09:36

Unorthodox gets Chasidic life — and music — wrong

Decolonising curricula is a bigotry-fuelled war on sense

'Old KGB tricks have been called into the service of BLM. Universities, once paragons of free thought, have turned into echo chambers of empty slogans. Independent thinkers are de-platformed.'

2 min read

August 20, 2020 13:38

Decolonising curricula is a bigotry-fuelled war on sense

A shul without rav or walls, it’s a bed of roses

'Rabbis have discreetly implored street minyan men to return to their pews — but the men I met are, like English Zionists, are in no hurry to test the Law of Return'

3 min read

August 16, 2020 10:37