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Nov 11, 2021, 12:42 AM

The night of broken hearts

"Shame on you!", they chorused. Against whom? Russia? China? COP refuseniks? Covid conspiracy theorists? That chap over in Syria, what’s his name again – Assad? - something’s going on there; or even the more pedestrian - the current crop...

Sep 2, 2020, 7:54 PM

Covid & the community: What comes next?

A couple of years ago, there was a parodic caricature of an elderly gent sending up the seemingly endless curiosity of how people spent Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur: “What are you doing first night? Where are you second...

Aug 8, 2018, 5:09 PM

Labour: The Musical

Jeremy Corbyn. (Jonathan Brady/PA Wire - Jewish News)

I want a new Labour Party that champions Jews' rights, protects us, and knows that, even as we love Israel, the UK is our home

Apr 4, 2018, 10:06 PM

Jeremy Corbyn and the falling tree

“It has never been easy for the Jewish people. But what courage and resolution. So much suffering yet so much capacity to renew in the face of it. So much persecution yet so much determination to conquer it. So...

Aug 27, 2017, 12:08 PM

Crime and Punishment?

For some, work goes against the grain of nature. On a weekday morning, the sun rises and with it, the inexorable global trudge to work, whether it is to an office, a farm, or a jumbo jet. Work also...

Jul 8, 2017, 12:08 AM

UNESCO is sacrificing Jewish heritage on the altar of political machinations

January, always a gloomy month, took an even darker shade this year when the Palestinian delegation to UNESCO submitted a request for Hebron to be inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage Centre’s List of World Heritage Sites in Danger....

Jun 30, 2017, 3:24 PM

Piercing the halachic veil

The recent controversy surrounding Rabbi Dweck has prompted a plethora of parishioners' voices: of confusion and of embarrassment; of approval and of condemnation. And like the very best of stories, the Chief Rabbi has, at long last, emerged from...

Nov 1, 2016, 3:38 PM

Tzedek, Tzedek Tirdof: Justice, justice you shall pursue

In the hit British comedy TV show Blackadder, the blustering, slightly unhinged Captain Melchett is distraught at the accidental shooting of his beloved pigeon, in the trenches, during the First World War. A trial consequently ensues, during which Captain...

Sep 15, 2016, 7:51 PM

A Trip to Poland

In the sleepy fug of an early September morning (think 6:30 a.m.), I stood in a slight daze at the entrance to London Stansted airport trying to work out exactly how to get to security. As I sorrowfully concluded...

Jul 14, 2016, 7:02 PM

Project Boris: It’s a new dawn

A man for whom sartorial elegance and élan is anathema, our new global ambassador and plenipotentiary representative cuts an unusual figure on the world stage. Walking out of Downing Street following his astonishing catapult to high office, Boris Johnson, as...

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About Me

Andrew Freedman is a communications consultant from London. Prior to embarking on a career in public relations, Andrew practised as a solicitor for a couple of years. Before that, Andrew read Classics at Oxford. He is a member of the World Jewish Congress Jewish Diplomatic Corps and is also active on behalf of several Jewish charities within the UK.