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Nov 27, 2025, 12:03 PM

Something Is Rotten in the State of Britain

Britain’s double standard in policing and politics now falls hardest on its Jews. Another week, another hate march outside a British synagogue. This time St John’s Wood. You probably did not hear about it, the mainstream media decided Jews being...

Oct 29, 2025, 2:12 PM

How New York Lost Its Mind

From Athens to New York, democracy’s fatal flaw has always been the same — confusing appetite for justice and charisma for competence. There is nowhere in the world that matches the energy, the culture, and the sheer magic that is...

Oct 12, 2025, 10:55 AM

Tommy Robinson and the conscience of Anglo-Jewry

“The uproar over an invitation to Israel, says less about Tommy Robinson than about the moral timidity of his critics.” While the pulse of British Jewry usually runs at a steady beat and requires frequent checks for signs of life,...

Oct 5, 2025, 6:55 AM

J’Accuse…! Peace in our Time, Terror in our Synagogues

Historically Britain’s antisemitism had a certain dignified, institutionalized and even genteel factor to it. That façade collapsed on Yom Kippur when Jews were slaughtered in a Manchester synagogue. As the impact of this horrific attack seeped into our joint...

Sep 28, 2025, 10:31 PM

Israel’s Animal Farm Moment

Everyday life is experienced linearly; physics suggests that it is relative, but Judaism always focuses on the cyclical. We place a strong emphasis on the circle of life, and it is through that lens that we tend to view...

Sep 18, 2025, 6:05 PM

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez (C) and Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares (3L) pose for a family photo with Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani

It seems like every week some former European empire desperate for relevance will jump on their decaying soapbox and excoriate Israel and Jews in general. Recently, it was Spain’s turn, and they emptied their arsenal in a visceral multi-front...

Sep 2, 2025, 11:56 AM

Macron, l’enfant terrible – From Dreyfus to Gaza

The world has an inexplicable weakness for all things French. Things just seem to sound and taste better when they are in French. Je ne sais quoi does not sound as smart in English, and puff pastry will never...

Feb 13, 2025, 5:17 PM

When Civil Rights Lost it’s Jewish Soul

Walking with my kids across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, you can feel the history pressing in from all sides. Think oppressive Alabama heat, the persistent hum of passing traffic, and the palatable ghosts of batons, dogs,...

Jan 31, 2025, 10:29 AM

JFK, Jack Ruby, and Me

A group of rabbis present a Torah scroll to President Kennedy that belonged to Isaac M. Wise founder of American Reformed Judaism .

Last week’s executive order by President Trump to finally release the classified files on the JFK assassination led me to reflect on my own personal connections to this cataclysmic event. Although I was not alive in 1963, so I...

Jan 24, 2025, 5:41 PM

How a road trip tracking the Jewish American dream led to North Dakota

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Imagine absolutely nowhere, multiply it by 100, add cows, and endless wheat fields. It was the motherlode and my kids asked all the right questions

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Philip Gross is a Manhattan-born, London-based business executive and writer. He explores issues of Jewish identity, faith, and contemporary society through the lens of both American and British experience.

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