I thought heavy metal bands were too busy with their own doom worlds to get on to Gaza. I was wrong

Usually apolitical, Fit for an Autopsy totally killed the joy at Bloodstock music festival with the lyric ‘Beasts of Zion, Curse your name’

The Jewish stomach: 3,000 years of indigestion, anxiety – and finally Tums

The story of the chalky reflux treatment invented in 1928 by the gentile pharmacist James Harvey Howe Sr – and which I carry in my tallit bag – is, like many unexamined aspects of American life, an everyday example of interfaith harmony

The success of Israeli players in English football matters beyond the pitch

At a time when there are persistent attempts to turn the Jewish state into a pariah, clubs such as Southampton and West Ham have refused to allow politics to dictate whom they employ, judging Manor Solomon and Daniel Peretz as sportsmen rather than symbols

If the Chinese regime is funding pro-Gaza marches on London’s streets, democracy is at risk

Protest group Code Pink is under investigation by the US Congress, accused of receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars from a network linked to the Communist Party in Beijing

How new right-wing parties outside Netanyahu’s camp may decide Israel’s election

If they manage to enter the Knesset and neither established bloc reaches 61 seats, they could determine who governs the country and under what conditions

Letters to the Editor, August 21 2026

The sale of uncritical copies of Mein Kampf in London is another sign of the breakdown in norms and standards

Aafaq bookshop sold a version that failed to mention Hitler’s crimes and chose to locate it next to works on psychology on a main display table

Iran’s panicked regime moves to criminalise ordinary contacts with the outside world

The leadership is now at least as concerned about another wave of domestic unrest as it is about the external military threat. The draconian laws curtailing correspondence with foreign academics and media come amid the near-daily execution of dissidents

The Orthodox will not only join the IDF in large numbers – they will influence it

My yeshivah provides Israel with a model for combining intensive Torah study with full military service