David Aaronovitch

Menashe’s surprising triumph over sectarianism

Can this film help to change perceptions, asks David Aaronovitch

Shepping nachas from the joys of Yiddish

Forget other second languages, choose Yiddish, says David Aaronovitch

Doctrinaires and their divine job description

Did God speak in 1869?

Stereotypes aren’t always true

Heaven knows I prefer philosemitism to antisemitism, but only in the sense that I’d prefer dog mess on my shoe to dog mess in my dinner, writes David Aaronovitch.

Can the Germans now teach us?

David Aaronovitch writes from the Bavarian Alps on the lessons we could learn from Europe's history

Sport and moral cowardice

Do sport and politics mix, asks David Aaronovitch

The empathy of Yevtushenko

Babi Yar was not a disappearance into a far-off and imaginable “resettlement camp” but one of the biggest of myriad mass-murders carried out close to large conurbations in almost full view of local populations

Behaviour to complain about

David Aaronovitch is concerned about the actions and attitudes of the most religious Jews

A lobby is a lobby is a lobby

The first thing I was told when I started in journalism all that time ago and in all seriousness was “don’t upset the Catholics”. But no one ever talked about the Rome Lobby, writes David Aaronovitch

Corbyn, Castro and the fraternal toleration of 'flaws'

The dark side of Twitter and the blame game

When laughter’s no joke