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Books

Goodbye to Russia review: ‘the journalists who don’t make old bones’

This is an important book about the plight of reporters and activists, many of them Jewish, under Putin

2 min read

September 11, 2024 18:43

Free men: the journalist Evan Gershovich (left) and political scientist Vladimir Kara-Murza

Film

The Critic review: ‘acidic revenge plot in 1930s London’

Ian McKellen’s stone-faced critic is a delicious embodiment of cruelty and wit

1 min read

September 11, 2024 18:37

Bribes and blackmail: Ian McKellen as Jimmy Erskine and Gemma Arterton as Nina Lan Credit: Bk Studios

Jewish theatre

Wiesenthal review: ‘Inside the mind of a Nazi hunter’

This play shows the humanity and humility of a man devoted to bringing Nazis to justice and sets the record straight about what the word ‘genocide’ means

1 min read

September 11, 2024 17:29

Avenger: Christopher Gibbs as Simon Wiesenthal

column

Don’t know much about biology...

Inherited conditions are more common in people of Jewish ancestry so students should take the appropriate genetic tests

5 min read

September 11, 2024 17:20

Board of Deputies

Post-October 7 challenges on the agenda in Board’s three-year proposals

The 2024-2027 triennium outline includes plans to fight antisemitism and celebrate British Jewish culture

2 min read

September 11, 2024 16:58

An anti-Israel protest at Birmingham University. The Board of Deputies has announced that fighting antisemitism is one of its top priorities for the next triennium (Photo: Twitter/X)

Family history

‘My mission to help motherless Jewish daughters like me’

The death of her mum at the age of 15 is the defining event of Lynda Dullop’s life. Now she is bringing women together to share their own similar stories of loss

9 min read

September 11, 2024 16:57

Mum's the word: a mother and daughter embrace

Film

Vogue model and war journalist Lee Miller’s Jewish friends and lovers

A film released this week tracks her astonishing story – and the cast of high-profile Jews who played crucial roles in building her career

4 min read

September 11, 2024 16:34

Artful: Lee Miller and Pablo Picasso in his Paris studio, in 1944

Australia

Anti-Israel rioters clash with police in Melbourne

Thirty-nine people were arrested and 24 officers were hurt at the protest in Australia's second-largest city

1 min read

September 11, 2024 16:27

A man wearing an Al-Qassam Brigade headband demonstrates in Melbourne (Photo: Getty Images)

Edinburgh Fringe

Comedian Reginald D Hunter tells Zionist he ‘will see you and your kind ended’

Heidi Bachram said Hunter’s message seemed to be a personal threat

2 min read

September 11, 2024 15:29

Reginald D. Hunter performs on stage, July 24, 2021 (Credit: Eamonn M. McCormack/Getty Images)

Hackney

Baby was thrown from window after antisemitic thug started fire in his own flat

Ian Pitkin was sentenced to life imprisonment during a hearing last week

2 min read

September 11, 2024 14:35

The fire-damaged building and (right) PItkin

USA

Israel will not exist if Harris is elected, Trump claims in fiery debate

Vice President Kamala Harris insisted she had been a supporter of the Jewish state throughout her career

3 min read

September 11, 2024 12:58

Donald Trump claimed that the Israel Hamas war would never have begun had he been president (Photo: Getty Images)

Nahamu

‘Lack’ of secular education in Charedi schools sparks call for stricter regulation

A new report demanding Charedi school regulation has ignited anger among some of the Strictly Orthodox community

8 min read

September 11, 2024 12:24

Members of the Orthodox Jewish community protest against the Government's Children Not in School (Registers, Support and Orders) Bill, opposite the Houses of Parliament in central London, on April 25, 2024. (Photo: Getty Images)

Nothing of substance is now achieved by battling on Twitter

The shouting and fighting seems like a closed system with only very occasional relevance to the non-digital world

3 min read

September 11, 2024 12:00

Elon Musk (Photo by PATRICK PLEUL/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Asserson report is devastating critique of BBC bias

Israel far more likely to be accused of war crimes, and crimes against humanity, than Hamas

2 min read

September 11, 2024 11:57

Protest outside BBC Broadcasting House last year (Photo: Getty Images)

The times they are a-changin’ – except on Kol Nidre

While Judaism is firmly rooted in the past, new – and sometimes unexpected practices – are emerging

2 min read

September 11, 2024 11:56

Customs are changing at Jewish lifecycle events (Photo: Getty Images)

What do dumbed-down diplomats know about Israel?

The ‘camel corps’ has been superseded by a new breed of ‘progressive’ leftists who fetishise transnational courts, where international law is used as a weapon of Israel’s destruction

3 min read

September 11, 2024 11:50

Pro-Israel groups as protest outside the Foreign Office on September 3, 2024, calling for the British government to stop providing funds funnelled to Hamas (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

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