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Sir Simon Schama backs Bevis Marks fight to stop nearby developments

'Saving the light for Bevis Marks is a matter of the deepest historical and cultural significance,' he says, joining more than 2,700 objectors to the proposed high rise blocks

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September 30, 2021 10:41

Sir Simon Schama backs Bevis Marks fight to stop nearby developments

Grotesque to credit Labour for voting to obey the law

The JC leader, 1 October 2021

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September 30, 2021 09:24

Shadow Foreign secretary Lisa Nandy speaks on stage on the third day of the annual Labour Party conference in Brighton, on the south coast of England on September 27, 2021. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP) (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Mark Rothko and the Jewish battle for soul of modern art

The opening of an exhibition of the painter’s work in Whitechapel 60 years ago marked a turning point for Jewish artists

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October 7, 2021 17:44

Mark Rothko and the Jewish battle for soul of modern art

100-year-old SS guard goes on trial for complicity in killings

'Joseph S' charged at hearing in Germany attended by Holocuast survivor also aged 100

4 min read

October 7, 2021 17:46

Defendant Josef S hides his face behind a folder as he waits for the start of his trial in Brandenburg an der Havel, northeastern Germany, on October 7, 2021. - The 100-year-old former concentration camp guard will become the oldest person yet to be tried for Nazi-era crimes in Germany when he goes before court charged with complicity in mass murder. The suspect, identified as Josef S., stands accused of "knowingly and willingly" assisting in the murder of 3,518 prisoners at the Sachsenhausen camp in Oranienburg, north of Berlin, between 1942 and 1945. (Photo by Tobias Schwarz / AFP) (Photo by TOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP via Getty Images)

A night at the opera brings me to tears

Claire Calman discovers the magic of Mozart

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October 7, 2021 17:06

HYCC7J Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, UK

Enough, already! Is it time to stop the ‘Jewface’ casting?

The American star was speaking after Kathryn Hahn was reported to have been cast as Joan Rivers in The Comeback Girl

2 min read

October 8, 2021 11:39

Sarah Silverman arrives for the 60th Grammy Awards on January 28, 2018, in New York. / AFP PHOTO / ANGELA WEISS (Photo credit should read ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

EXCLUSIVE: Government committee considering revoking Wiley’s MBE after warrant issued for assault

The artist currently has a warrant for his arrest after failing to appear in court

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October 8, 2021 17:32

Wiley with the Ivor Inspiration Award during the Annual Ivor Novello Songwriting Awards at Grosvenor House in London.

BBC

J'Accuse! BBC calls Alfred Dreyfus a ‘notorious Jewish spy’

Publicity material for new drama repeats the infamous antisemitic libel

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October 11, 2021 12:41

J'Accuse! BBC calls Alfred Dreyfus a ‘notorious Jewish spy’

Noach

“Noah sent the raven and it went out and back forth until the waters dried upon the land” Genesis 8:7

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October 8, 2021 09:23

The Etgar Challenge October 10

contains material not in the Etgar handbook

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October 10, 2021 12:31

The legacy of trauma

A new play opening this week asks hard questions about the power of the past. John Nathan met its writer, Cordelia Lynn

5 min read

October 15, 2021 16:54

Love and Other Acts of Violence by Cordelia Lynn ; Rehearsals ; Directed by Elayce Ismail ; Donmar Warehouse ; London, UK ; 13th September 2021 ; Credit and copyright: Helen Murray

How Britain’s young academics became so deeply radicalised

Lecturers know they are reliant for their future on the support of colleagues so they do not dare to step beyond the consensus, meaning that self-censorship becomes the norm

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October 14, 2021 16:29