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Feb 20, 2019, 11:48 AM

I’m from a proud Jewish Labour family – and I’m staying to fight

Ruth Smeeth

I was born into a proud Jewish, Labour, family. My great zayde arrived from Poland in the late 19th century. He was a founder member of the Jewish branch of the Amalgamated Union of Cabinet Makers, which became Unite. As...

Feb 19, 2019, 4:42 PM

How Board stepped into a Hungarian hornet’s nest

Marie van der Zyl, Board president

When Jewish leaders from around the globe gathered at the World Jewish Congress in Budapest in 2013, they were greeted at their hotel by far-right supporters of Jobbick chanting anti-Semitic slogans. The success of Jobbick at the ballot...

Elizabeth Harris-Sawczenko

Feb 15, 2019, 1:12 PM

Jerusalem through a Christian lens

Top left: View from Ecce Homo convent in Muslim quarter of old city, At the holy sepulchre, Christian pilgrims on the via dolorosa and with the Latin Patriarch and ICCJ delegation HE Archbishop Pierbatista Pizzaballa (Jewish News)

This is a reflection on Israel from a different angle, not normally discussed in the Jewish community and that’s Christians in the Holyland and the Palestinian territories. And why do I care? Well, for all sorts of reasons, starting...

Feb 12, 2019, 2:08 PM

The days of kissing up to Labour are long gone

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn giving his keynote speech at the party's annual conference, October 2018. (Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire via Jewish News)

Last week, as if she didn’t have enough on her plate, the MP Luciana Berger was gently exhorting people to observe Time To Talk Day, an initiative relating to mental health, her special interest. It struck me that “time to...

Feb 12, 2019, 11:35 AM

Sorry, but Victoria Tower Gardens is NOT the place for a Holocaust memorial

Victoria Tower Gardens in Westminster, London. Photo credit: Anthony Devlin/PA Wire

No one sensible doubts that the UK shouldn’t have a central Holocaust memorial and learning centre. The question is: should it be in Victoria Tower Gardens, as proposed and supported by major Jewish organisations? As someone who cycles or walks...

Yehudis Goldsobel

Feb 8, 2019, 3:41 PM

#ItsNotOK: Responding to disclosures of sexual abuse

Yehudis Goldsobel

We had a call from a classroom assistant working in a Jewish school. The individual was concerned that they were untrained vis a vis what would be best practice response to a six-year-old student’s disclosure in a class setting....

Feb 7, 2019, 5:21 PM

On The Money with Martin Lewis: How to avoid Brexit affecting your summer hols

Martin Lewis

It’s cold. So no surprise January and February are the busiest beach-booking months of the year, as millions turn their attention to a lovely foreign holiday. With Brexit round the corner, if you’ve booked a trip to Europe, there’s...

Yehudis Fletcher

Feb 7, 2019, 2:26 PM

The community's response can hurt more than the abuse

It's high time we protest the faith-based institutions that use faith as a fig leaf, and protect perpetrators instead of survivors

Feb 7, 2019, 2:13 PM

How Britain and Ukraine can learn from each other on Shoah remembrance

Natan Sharansky addressing guests at the House of Commons event for the Babi Yar memorial (Jewish News)

Precisely one year ago, Ukraine joined the international community in declaring January 27 an annual day of Holocaust Remembrance. This may sound like a very long way away from where we are in the UK but in fact there...

Feb 7, 2019, 11:32 AM

How politics and social media is being polluted

It is unlikely to surprise readers of Jewish News that 2018 was the third year in a row to see a record number of antisemitic incidents in this country. These past three years have felt at times like a...

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