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Richard Ferrer
Richard Ferrer
Aug 21, 2026, 12:33 PM
Sometimes, I really wish there were a God
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When I was a kid growing up in London, my favorite TV advert was for Ready Brek, a British breakfast staple not unlike Quaker Instant Oatmeal. I never touched the stuff. No way was I conceding Coco Pops for something even Oliver Twist wouldn’t want...
Amy Williams
Amy Williams
Aug 12, 2026, 4:37 AM
Emma Mogilensky’s Shoah Found testimony about babies left on the Kindertransport
Testimony is one of the most important resources we have for learning about the Kindertransport. In this blog I want to argue that seeing testimony in relation to newly discovered archival material enhances our understanding of testimony and at the same time the testimony helps...
Lyn Julius
Lyn Julius
Aug 7, 2026, 12:58 AM
Book Review: A true story dressed up as a novel
The Dressmaker of Baghdad is based on the true story of the mother of  Orna Zaig, published in 2025 in Kindle. Zaig is one of several (mostly female) authors writing in English who have tried to recreate a vanished world constructed from the stories they...
Jan Shure
Jan Shure
Jul 23, 2026, 10:08 PM
Anti-Israel comedian tries out new Jewish material for Edinburgh return
‘I have to be honest. I had hoped never to hear the name Reginald D Hunter again. But I see from a story in The Telegraph that Hunter has been released from what he called his “comedy jail “and is performing again at Edinburgh this...
Jan Shure
Jan Shure
Jul 22, 2026, 10:51 AM
3 Billboards Outside Ebbing or Outside Epping or Anywhere…
Driving past a vacant advertising hoarding earlier today, I thought about the Oscar-winning movie “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” in which Frances McDormand plays a mother who rents giant roadside billboards  to draw attention to the police’s failure to find the man who raped and...
Jan Shure
Jan Shure
Jul 11, 2026, 9:09 PM
‘Antisemitism’ to ‘Zionism’. Your A-Z a guide to anti-Israel slurs and smears
I know the headline says this is of A-Z guide to anti-Israel lies, slurs, smears and libels, and it  was certainly supposed to be an A-Z  guide. The problem is that there were so many lies, slurs, smears and libels that this blog was turning...
Amy Williams
Amy Williams
Jul 2, 2026, 3:30 PM
The dangers of misremembering the Kindertransport over 80 years on
Despite the Kinder’s own diverse experiences being more widely known in the UK and the fact that some of the Kinder’s voices have even been heard in parliament, and although scholars are continuously dispelling myths about the Kindertransport, some politicians often still paint a rosy...
Lyn Julius
Lyn Julius
Jun 22, 2026, 1:35 PM
Gad Saad: ‘Bad things’ happened to abducted parents
Since 7 October 2023, the Beirut-born professor Gad Saad has become an outspoken figure on social media, inveighing against antisemitism, ‘wokeism’ and ‘social justice activism’ . His book ‘Suicidal empathy‘ describes a ‘death wish’ among westerners who empathise with those who wish to destroy them....
Jan Shure
Jan Shure
May 24, 2026, 4:03 PM
Stop peddling lies and libels, NYT or be remembered as today’s Der Sturmer
There is absolutely no doubt that The New York Times is – and has been for many decades now – pushing a profoundly anti-Israel narrative. Indeed, it is my opinion that if it doesn’t stop peddling these lies and libels against Israel, it will not...
Amy Williams
Amy Williams
May 13, 2026, 8:56 PM
AI and the Kindertransport: The stories behind the photos
Imagine a row of German officials or Gestapo guards standing in front of a steam train to the left, little Jewish children with suitcases and teddies in hand in the middle, and then a railing holding back parents with outstretched hands to the right. The...
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