Daniel Finkelstein

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Daniel Finkelstein

We all need to know about Santa – even the Charedim

People who are born here and who will become citizens should receive an education that equips them for that role as well as for their role as Jews.

By Daniel Finkelstein

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I made the mistake of offering a factual comment on Israel

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Israelis holding photographs of abducted and missing family members protest outside the Knesset (Photo by Yonatan Sindeli/Flash90)

With Hamas, freeing the hostages will not be the endgame

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Attorney General Richard Hermer KC makes his way to Number 10 for his first day as a cabinet minister on 6 July (Photo by Alex McBride/Getty Images)

Under Labour, the debate on Israel is only just beginning

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Despite it all, modern Britain remains one of the best places for Jews to live in history

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May 16, 2024 10:28
Pro-Palestinian supporters shout slogans and wave Palestinian flags during a demonstration in central London on January 6, 2024, calling for a ceasefire now in the war in Gaza. Thousands of civilians, both Palestinians and Israelis, have died since October 7, 2023, after Palestinian Hamas militants based in the Gaza Strip entered southern Israel in an unprecedented attack triggering a war declared by Israel on Hamas with retaliatory bombings on Gaza. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP) (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel’s critics aren’t interested in dialogue or compromise, they just want to hate

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March 19, 2024 17:45
Protesters hold placards and chant slogans during a rally in support of Palestinians, outside of the Houses of Parliament in central London on November 15, 2023, to demand Members of Parliament vote for a ceasefire in Gaza. (Photo by Ben Stansall / AFP)

My family now have a lasting memorial in Amsterdam

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February 1, 2024 10:50
Gunter Demnig, founder of the Stolpersteine project, cleans freshly placed Stolpersteine ('stumbling stones') in commemoration of the Gutmann family (Photo by THOMAS KIENZLE/AFP via Getty Images)

Why people refuse to see Jews as an ethnic minority

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December 14, 2023 13:59
Police officers stand by as workmen clean off red paint from the windows at the entrance to the BBC building in central London on October 14, 2023. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP) (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Urging Israel to 'use restraint' is to deny Gazans their only escape from hell

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October 26, 2023 10:55
TOPSHOT - A fireball erupts during Israeli bombardment in the northern Gaza Strip on October 14, 2023. Thousands of people, both Israeli and Palestinians have died since October 7, 2023, after Palestinian Hamas militants entered Israel in a surprise attack leading Israel to declare war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip enclave on October 8. (Photo by Aris MESSINIS / AFP) (Photo by ARIS MESSINIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Israelophobia review: As original and necessary as Baddiel’s Jews Don’t Count

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September 15, 2023 13:44
Israelophobia review: As original and necessary as Baddiel’s Jews Don’t Count

How I learned to fill in the gaps in my family’s Shoah story

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September 7, 2023 16:00
The railway tracks entering the main building at the Auschwitz-Birkenau German Nazi death camp are pictured ahead of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's landmark visit in Oswiecim, Poland, on December 5, 2019. - German Chancellor Angela Merkel will honour Holocaust victims on December 6, 2019 with her first official visit to the former Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, a Nazi German killing factory where more than 1.1 million people, mostly European Jews, perished during World War II. (Photo by JANEK SKARZYNSKI / AFP) (Photo by JANEK SKARZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

RFK Jr is just the latest conspiracy theorist to turn on the Jews

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July 17, 2023 10:30
BOSTON, MA - APRIL 19: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. officially announces his candidacy for President on April 19, 2023 in Boston, Massachusetts. An outspoken anti-vaccine activist, RFK Jr. joins self-help author Marianne Williamson in the Democratic presidential field of challengers for 2024. (Photo by Scott Eisen/Getty Images)

We were lucky to know Sir Ben Helfgott

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June 16, 2023 16:55
Holocaust survivors Ben Helfgott and Sabina Miller stand with a memorial candle on the Millennium Bridge in central London on January 27, 2013 to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. AFP PHOTO/Leon Neal (Photo credit should read LEON NEAL/AFP via Getty Images)

The past isn’t dead when its everyday objects are with us

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June 1, 2023 09:33
The past isn’t dead when its everyday objects are with us

Only a democratic Israel can be a true safe haven for Jews

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April 11, 2023 16:19
Israelis protest against the Israeli government's planned judicial overhaul, utside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem, on March 26, 2023. Photo by Yossi Zamir/Flash90 *** Local Caption *** הפגנה דמוקרטיה בית הנשיא ירושלים מהפכה משפטית מעון ראש הממשלה שמאל מעצר בעד נגד

When Luciana Berger was hounded out of Labour, I cried

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February 23, 2023 09:31
LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 23: Labour MP Luciana Berger returns to the conference centre with her police security detail following a Jewish Labour Movement rally, during the first day of the annual Labour Party conference on September 23, 2018 in Liverpool, England. Berger has criticised the Labour Party's approach to Jewish members, saying that "there's no place in the party for us anymore". Labour's official slogan for the conference is “Rebuilding Britain, for the many, not the few”. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)
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