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Keep an eye on these MPs

An ‘actual Jewish wife’ writes

Now we're fighting, not for the Kotel, but over it

No one can take this Wall down. Some want to claim ownership. But no one can own the right to another person’s longings

Same old Middle East debate? Maybe not

That the government itself sought a debate on Israel and the Palestinians may be an indication of Tory intentions to take the matter seriously over the next year or two.

This is your story, and mine

She had never appeared in a musical before, so why was Tracy-Ann Oberman determined to take the part of Golde in Fiddler on the Roof?

Fake news can damage us all

What is real and what is fake? We will always have our own opinions, but are we destined never to agree on a common set of facts?

We still need local scrutiny

Should there be a levy on the big social media companies to fund local and investigative journalism? David Byers thinks there should.

Belonging to a shul matters

The standard assumption about why this has happened is that former members have simply lost interest. But is this true, asks Jonathan Boyd.

We can handle uncertainty

The Jewish approach is never to hide under the blankets and hope that difficult and uncertain times pass, writes Rabbi Yoni Birnbaum

We need to look at the big picture

There are rumblings that Charedi Jews need to start taking more responsibility for community affairs. But recent events in Israel show just what a double-edged sword that could turn out to be.

Can the Germans now teach us?

David Aaronovitch writes from the Bavarian Alps on the lessons we could learn from Europe's history

Attacks on Dweck betray the spirit of Maimonides

Those wanting to silence Rabbi Dweck want the Jews of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation to be silent too.

Tories don’t want May to stay, but they don’t w...

Youth vote matters in Judaism

The United Synagogue could learn from Jeremy Corbyn's successes, says Jennifer Lipman

Dangers of stringent modesty

In a segment of society where women’s health cannot be discussed, how are women supposed to discover the need for the preventative care that can save their lives, asks Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

The heroes among us

You rarely see an emergency worker receiving public acclaim, but just because they’re not looking for it, it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t give it, says Stephen Rosenthal

Resigned to a nasty, dull kind of politics

In this week's Dysch on Politics the JC's political editor looks at two very different political careers with two potentially similar endings.

Talking about their generation

I was wrong about the young. And that is great, writes Abigail Radnor.