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Is this the thinker whose ideas can help rebuild a mainstream Labour Party?

The time may have come for the ‘Blue Labour’ ideas of Ed Miliband’s former guru to help reshape Labour’s return to being a party for the working classes, writes Robert Philpot

By Robert Philpot

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Is this the thinker whose ideas can help rebuild a mainstream Labour Party?

The Jewish women who were among the first to seize the opportunity to be lawyers

By Rosalind Wright

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How Orwell's antisemitism resurfaced on the left

By Richard Bradford

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What will the activists who spent years fighting a Corbyn victory do next?

By Lianne Kolirin

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The fight to recognise Arab Jews

By Sandy Rashty

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Project charting UK Jews' search for EU passports launches today

By Tim Wyatt

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The Irish leader who prayed for a Nazi invasion

By Robert Philpot

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