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Meet Daniel Greenberg: The orthodox Jew policing Parliament

If an MP misbehaves, there’s a new man to call. Meet Daniel Greenberg, Westminster sleaze-buster

7 min read

April 3, 2023 13:00

Meet Daniel Greenberg: The orthodox Jew policing Parliament

What the Chief Rabbi could have said about the King’s coronation

Sir Ephraim Mirvis was suitably honoured and delighted to have been made to feel welcome by King Charles. But was there a mischievous subtext to his carefully crafted remarks?

3 min read

May 11, 2023 11:51

What the Chief Rabbi could have said about the King’s coronation

Poland

Polish Kindertransport memorial restored to its Gdansk city centre site

Statue by city boy who fled on last children’s train in 1939 is rededicated in special ceremony

1 min read

June 14, 2023 15:05

Gdańsk. Powrót w przestrzeń publiczną Pomnika Kindertransportów

West Bank

Israel extends detention of PIJ leader that sparked recent Gaza conflict

An Israeli military court has delayed the release of Bassem Saadi

1 min read

August 16, 2022 16:19

SHeikh Bassam Al-Saadi, head of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist group, brought to a court hearing at Ofer prison, outside of Jerusalem, on August 16, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 *** Local Caption *** ??? ???? ???? ? ???? ??? ????? ?????? ????? ????

Film

Chevalier review: Uneven biopic of Caribbean-French composer

Watchmen director Stephen Williams's film about Joseph Bologne fails to hit the right notes

1 min read

June 8, 2023 14:00

Kelvin Harrison Jr. in the film CHEVALIER. Photo by Larry Horricks. Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2022 20th Century Studios All Rights Reserved.

West Bank

Palestinians mob German tourists who entered West Bank city in Israeli car

'A mob attacking tourists because they don‘t like their license plate is disgusting and cowardly,' says German ambassador to Israel.

1 min read

March 19, 2023 12:02

Palestinian police standing next to a car an Israeli sharing car driven by German tourists and was attacked by Palestinian youth in Nablus, in the West Bank on March 18, 2023. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90 *** Local Caption *** ???????? ??????? ????? ?????? ????????? ????? ?????? ????? ????? ???

Jewish Education

Jewish Learning Exchange raises £3 million from London dinner

Proceeds will go towards a £5 million campaign to take the educational charity's work to the next level

1 min read

November 24, 2022 11:43

Jewish Learning Exchange raises £3 million from London dinner

Calendar

Shabbat and Pesach times from April 15 to April 22

Shabbat and Yomtov times for the week

1 min read

April 14, 2022 09:17

Shabbat and Pesach times from April 15 to April 22

Vatican

How the pope failed the Jews in the Holocaust

A new book sets out damning evidence about the conduct of Pope Pius XII during the Second World War

4 min read

June 30, 2022 08:06

18th March 1939: Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII (1876 - 1958) on the papal throne. (Photo by G. Felici/Keystone/Getty Images)

Dave Chapelle and the art of jokes about Jews

The provocative US comedian’s controversial routines can be defended — most of the time

3 min read

November 10, 2022 18:08

Dave Chappelle: The Closer. c. Mathieu Bitton

Why today’s world badly needs more Henry Kissingers

America has a China problem, and the Jewish realist might give us an clue as to how to solve it

3 min read

December 9, 2021 16:55

Why today’s world badly needs more Henry Kissingers

Television review: The Girl from Oslo

This Israel-Norwegian co production goes Shnordic Noir on a trip to Sinai

2 min read

January 13, 2022 14:34

Schools

Helping absentees find a way back to school

There are many reasons a child might disengage from school - we need the right approach to help them

2 min read

February 14, 2023 15:38

Helping absentees find a way back to school

Film

More Than Ever Film review: Norwegian wisdom in end-of-life drama

Franco-German director Emily Atef’s latest offering seeks to be life-affirming and philosophical about a terminal diagnosis, but often feels bleak

1 min read

January 19, 2023 15:49

More Than Ever Film review: Norwegian wisdom in end-of-life drama

Cost of living

Israel is the most expensive country in the developed world

New data shows that Israel's cost of living is the highest among developed nations

1 min read

August 28, 2023 07:33

A shopkeeper browses a phone and smokes a waterpipe while waiting for customers at a market in the old city of Jerusalem on June 11, 2023. (Photo by Jewel SAMAD / AFP) (Photo by JEWEL SAMAD/AFP via Getty Images)

Charity Commission

Regulator to investigate two Charedi charities over ‘potential mismanagement’

Charity Commission probe into education and poverty relief organisations Dalaid and the Schwarzschild Foundation

1 min read

August 24, 2023 09:45

The Charity Commission has opened an investigation into eight Jewish charities as part of a probe into more than 100 charities suspected of a cash-chequing fraud (Photo: UK Government)

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