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Sep 11, 2023, 11:33 PM

Did you see the date today? I remember where I was on 9/11 very well. For our generation it was the President Kennedy assassination moment. I was in Brighton in southern England for the Trade Union Congress annual conference in September 2001. As Director of...

Sep 7, 2023, 8:53 PM

Top 5 Reasons to Be Cautious of Vivek Ramaswamy

Vivek Ramaswamy has burst onto the scene of the US presidential primary elections, reinvigorating the race with his incredible eloquence, intelligence and hyper quick wittedness. He is a political consultants’ dream. Youthfulness, vigour and a refreshing energy that has captured the media’s attention with wall...

Oct 18, 2021, 11:15 AM

Wakey wakey British Jews

The upsetting news about the murder of Sir David Amess MP reached me just before the start of Shabbat in Tel Aviv. We moved here from London almost 5 years ago. My mind immediately went back to the tall, smiley-faced man that was a constant in...

Jul 3, 2020, 1:37 PM

I don’t like it when Boris Johnson speaks Hebrew

Boris Johnson. (Photo credit: Victoria Jones/PA Wire via Jewish News)

Am I alone in feeling profoundly uncomfortable with the spectacle of Boris’s op-ed intervention in Hebrew in Israel’s most popular newspaper? Excuse me Boris? Are things going so well in the UK that you have the time to give your tuppence worth on relations between...

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