Zoe Strimpel

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My Jewish supermarket sweep – spoiler, the winner isn’t M&S

Some chains have a distinctly more ‘kosher’ flavour than others – particularly in an era when politics and activism can determine whether Israeli dates or Palestinian beer make it onto the shelves

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Recovery Suite. (Photo Credit - Yoshihiro Makino, Courtesy of Santa Monica Travel & Tourism)

A week of wellness in Santa Monica

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Solidarity: (l to r) Sivan Kobi, Adeena Sussman and Ruhama Shitrit

Meet the courageous Jewish Instagrammers who are cooking up a storm for Israel

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Demonstrators wearing keffiyehs take a selfie at a rally in solidarity with Palestinians (Photo by KEMAL ASLAN/AFP via Getty Images)

How keffiyehs and watermelon swim bags became middle-class terror chic

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Dawn French and the comedians who can't resist punching down at Israel

From Dave Chappelle to Reginald D Hunter, comedians of the present love to deploy their art or its milieu to spit scorn and falsehoods at the Jewish state

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June 11, 2025 09:07

Dawn French and the comedians who can't resist punching down at Israel

Will the BBC learn anything from its latest Gaza disaster?

The row over the How to Survive a Warzone documentary has gone beyond the predictable

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February 26, 2025 13:15

Scenes from Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone was broadcast on Monday on BBC Two and narrated by Abdullah Al-Yazouri, the son of a Hamas official (Image: BBC)

Real Holocaust remembrance requires standing up for Israel

You can’t really believe in the importance and implications of the Holocaust without understanding Israel’s essential legitimacy

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January 15, 2025 09:16

King Charles at Chanukah reception for Holocaust survivors at the JW3 Community Centre on December 16, 2022 (Getty Images)

I no longer believe that the UAE is safe for Jews

Rabbi Avi Kogan’s murder shows there are too many Iranians operating in terror cells there

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November 25, 2024 08:56

It pains me to to say it, but Trump was a better option for Jews than Harris-Walz

October 7 changed everything. The betrayal by the Democrats of their loyal Jewish voters has been so severe since then that their loyalty finally caved

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November 6, 2024 11:43

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in Ann Arbor, Michigan (Getty Images)

I lost my temper over a keffiyeh in north London

I should have stayed calm – but that’s difficult if you see things for what they really are

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October 9, 2024 12:02

Gail’s will be just fine, despite the Walthamstow campaign

The bigger battles facing world Jewry, though, will take urgent courageous struggle to overcome

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August 20, 2024 10:28

A terrorist’s profile shows the rot in America’s media

The New Yorker’s article doesn’t glamourise Yahya Sinwar, but much about it exemplifies the problem with so much coverage of the conflict between Israel and Hamas

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August 7, 2024 12:16