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Sep 18, 2018, 12:17 AM

Do the Charedi Rabbis Fear Jeremy Corbyn?

Clifford's Tower, York. site of the 1190 massacre in in which 150 Jews were killed.
Photography: http://wolfblur.de/index.php/zu-meiner-person

A letter purported to come from leading rabbis of the British Charedi community was seized upon by Corbyn supporters as expressing support for the Labour leader There is a scene in Fiddler on the Roof when one of the villagers...

May 15, 2018, 12:07 AM

Netta and Other Beautiful Creatures

Usually, I hate the Eurovision Song Contest. I have a deep loathing of the trivial, and the Eurovision is nothing if not a shallow, never-ending quest to find the lowest common denominator. But something happening this time. It wasn’t just...

Apr 12, 2018, 1:31 PM

The Shoah belongs to the Jews

Yom Hashoah is the day we reclaim the Holocaust Everyone wants a piece of the Holocaust action. Being a member of a victimised minority is all the rage these days, so it was probably inevitable that many, green with...

Mar 28, 2018, 12:46 AM

The sad demise of the Gefilte Fish

Gefilte fish is an easy find at Passover. (Wikimedia Commons)

At least the spicy Sephardic version shares the nutritious, educational, and religious benefits of this 'brain food'

Mar 23, 2018, 5:25 PM

European Union — the biggest people-trafficking scam in history

During the days of Empire, the rich countries of Europe exploited the resources of the poorer nations of the word through conquest. These days, there is a new system; no longer able to occupy foreign lands and exploit their...

Mar 9, 2018, 1:37 PM

The Royal Family – the last bastion of the British working class

“Killed as a result of enemy action.” Every day, as I took the shortcut to school along the cemetery path, I would stop to read those words, engraved on each grave stone above the deceased's date of birth and the...

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About Me

Moshe Forman is a British-Israeli novelist and technical writer. He was the chairperson of the Union of Jewish Students of the UK and Eire, later working in Israel as a TV news cameraperson, before becoming a technical writer for some of Israel’s leading hi-tech companies. He recently published his first novel, "Quench and Wendy in the Land of Shovan" - an epic fantasy.