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Mar 18, 2026, 7:48 PM

As A Jew – The tragedy of London’s theatre

Two of London’s leading off-West End venues are currently hosting revivals of plays each offering different yet equally blinkered critiques of modern Jewish and Israeli history. In an increasingly febrile arts scene, where sadly one of the more fashionable...

Mar 5, 2026, 2:27 AM

Broken Glass by Arthur Miller – A Review

Rarely is a production as muddled and disappointing as its underlying script as is to be found in Jordan Fein’s take on Arthur Miller’s Broken Glass, currently playing at London's Young Vic Theatre. Set in 1938 in New York's Brooklyn,...

Mar 1, 2026, 3:33 AM

Confessions of a Gentile Zionist—Part 2

When I convinced Mallory that I needed to spend a summer in Germany to improve my German, the better to read German philosophers, her mother wasn’t thrilled, but her grandmother invited her into her apartment for tea and spoke...

Revital Yakin Krakovsky

Nov 9, 2025, 2:41 PM

Kristallnacht 2025: The flames of hatred have not died out

L-R: Kristallnacht survivor Walter Bingham, CEO of March of the Living Israel, Revital Yakin Krakovsky, and Kristallnacht survivors Paul Alexander and George Shefi, at the Great Synagogue in Jerusalem, October 29, 2025. (Shani Jaffe)

An anniversary that is also a warning at a time when antisemitism is normalized and visible throughout culture, sports, academia, and politics

Nov 7, 2025, 4:59 AM

Global Outrage to Kristallnacht: Anger but No Action

It is perhaps an aphorism that “the more things change the more they remain the same.” However, regarding world opinion towards Jews, it is one that seems applicable at least on the surface. Following the November 9--10 pogrom of...

Nov 4, 2025, 5:02 AM

The Amsterdam Pogrom, a year later

On the first anniversary the pogrom of Amsterdam, one can only look back in dismay. Some can hardly believe that Western civilisations, with the Netherlands in particular, can have had such a collective breakdown in sanity. What is perhaps...

Feb 22, 2025, 1:12 AM

Fixing what is broken

In 1808 former President John Adams said, “I will insist the Hebrews have contributed more to civilize men than any other nation. If I was an atheist and believed in blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate...

Dec 20, 2024, 11:33 AM

One light in a dark valley

In these days, the world feels darker and darker. Enter a recent piece of art a local church lovingly shared with my congregation

Dec 10, 2024, 6:28 PM

No Man’s Land

Moshe sipped his morning coffee, examined his waitress' backside, and listened as Mordecai talked. "Moshe, did you read the news about what Claudia Sheinbaum, the President of Mexico, said about what she wants the US to do with the deportation...

Nov 20, 2024, 12:07 AM

A Pogrom in 2024?!

The Struggle You're in Today is Developing the Strength You Need for Tomorrow Kristalnacht came to Amsterdam last week. Just when we thought we were starting to see the turning point of Israel’s War on Terror, last night’s vicious attack...

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