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Letters to the Editor, January 30 2026

By The JC

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The status of Rabbi Miriam Lorie continued to spark debate among JC readers this week (Photo: Miriam Lorie)

How Britain can confront the antisemitism crisis

By Mark Sewards

How Britain can confront the antisemitism crisis

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It's all relative: Albert Einstein (Image: Getty)

By Nicholas Lezard

How October 7 brought this Schrödinger’s Jew to life

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By Saul Sadka

You can’t fight antisemitism – but you can fight antisemites

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By Kasra Aarabi

Britain is isolated in its failure to ban the IRGC – putting national security at risk

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East End

Surely we can save this piece of East End history?

By Amy Schreibman Walter

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By Evie Robinson

Holocaust Memorial Day and the erasure of Jewish victims

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David Abulafia: the historian who reshaped our understanding of the sea and civilisation

His Jewish faith and identity came through in a quintessentially British way. He helped secure a permanent home for Cambridge’s Reform Jewish community and guided those seeking to join the faith

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The dangerous erasure of Jews from the Holocaust

Every time that the memory of the Shoah is distorted, it is an insult to victims and survivors, and makes it ever harder to combat rising antisemitism

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January 30, 2026 15:35

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By Melissa Langsam Braunstein

From heckler’s veto to divestment: how Jewish life is under assault in New York

The community and its friends need a forceful, coordinated response, reminding the authorities that laws define who can participate in American society – not random anti-Zionists

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January 30, 2026 11:13

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By Mattie Heaven

Iran’s antisemitic regime is slaughtering its own people – and the West is silent

The UK must move from statements to strategy. That means proscribing the IRGC, expanding targeted sanctions, closing legal and financial safe havens, and supporting international accountability mechanisms for crimes against humanity

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By Marnie Riches

How the publishing industry ‘awoke’ – and turned on the Jews

A purge took place in the cultural scene, the likes of which nobody had seen since the Inquisition

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January 29, 2026 14:06

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By Nick Cohen

The shallow claim that anti-Zionism isn’t antisemitism

Ominously, many want to shut down any attempt to limit Jew hate. They want a world without boundaries, where anything goes, and anti-Jewish racism can never be called by its real name

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January 29, 2026 11:54