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Yaakov Chaliotis

Jul 30, 2026, 11:11 PM

The Union Jack Belongs to All of Us — Sarah Sackman Should Know Better

There are moments in public life when a politician reveals, almost accidentally, the assumptions through which they see their own community. Sarah Sackman’s intervention over the flags displayed in Temple Fortune and Golders Green is one such moment. Sackman is...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Jul 27, 2026, 7:03 PM

The IDF Must Make Hebrew a Weapon, Not a Barrier

The IDF faces a shortfall of approximately 12,000 soldiers, including 7,000 combat troops. Military leaders warn that shorter service terms and mounting reserve exhaustion will only widen the manpower gap. Yet Israel is overlooking an answer in plain sight:...

Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Jul 26, 2026, 5:49 AM

The Usurpation of Israel

British Jews are increasingly asked to prove their loyalty to Israel by suspending judgment of the Israeli state. This demand is presented as solidarity, but it reverses the Hebrew ethical order. Israel does not exist to release Jews from...

Andrew Logan Lawrence

Jul 20, 2026, 7:21 PM

Starmer Is Gone. What Did He Leave British Jews?

20/07/2026. London, United Kingdom. Prime Minister Keir Starmer leaves 10 Downing Street for the final time before Andy Burnham becomes the new Prime Minister. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street

This morning Keir Starmer went to Buckingham Palace and gave up the job. A little later Andy Burnham arrived, kissed hands, and became the 59th prime minister of the United Kingdom, the seventh in a decade. He ran unopposed,...

Steven Bernstein

Jul 19, 2026, 10:18 AM

A Jewish Name on a Borneo Waterfront

Caption: Sir Charles James Jessel, the Jewish lawyer whose name still marks Borneo's waterfront, alongside the waterfront of Kota Kinabalu
Credit: British North Borneo Chartered Company, 1899 / Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain)

I stood at Jesselton Point last week watching people queue for speedboats to the islands. The wind carried the smell of petrol across the harbor as boats idled at the pier. Beyond them, the sea glowed an almost impossible...

Steven Bernstein

Jul 17, 2026, 6:00 PM

The Jewish Governor Who Built Hong Kong’s Golden Mile

Nathan Road is one of the most famous streets in Asia. Walk Nathan Road on any evening and you will find the whole world there. Mainland Chinese tourists with rolling suitcases. Commuters pouring out of the MTR. Shoppers moving between...

Jun 22, 2026, 6:47 PM

The two antisemitism legacies of Keir Starmer

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer, center, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley, right, and Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, 2nd left, speak with members of the Jewish community during a visit to Golders Green, north west London, Thursday April 30, 2026, following an attack in which two men were stabbed. (Stefan Rousseau/Pool via AP)

The British PM made his party safer for Jews, but they feel less safe in the rest of the country. Will his successor do any better?

Jun 10, 2026, 8:30 PM

The Jewish Exception: The Experience of a Minority in British Society

British Jews have become accustomed to being told not to worry, that they are exaggerating or even fabricating threats against them. Every time a synagogue installs additional security measures, every time a Jewish school raises its perimeter fences, every...

Claire R. Bright

Jun 9, 2026, 8:14 PM

Gesher Tzar Meod

Today, I attended a gynecology conference in London to speak about DES—a topic I have explored in previous blog posts. I spoke about patient experience, medical harm, and the heavy physical toll women carry from decisions made before they...

Benjamin Adam Saidel

May 31, 2026, 1:48 PM

The British Museum’s Surrender Is Symptomatic of Modern Britain

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA (Courtesy)

The British Museum cancelled—or, in its preferred terminology, "postponed"—a lecture that formed part of its Jewish Culture Month. Paul Collins, Keeper of the British Museum's Middle East Department, was scheduled to deliver a public lecture entitled Ancient Israel and...

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