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Karen Glaser

Karen Glaser

Karen Glaser edits Life, the Jewish Chronicle's culture and lifestyle section

You can reach her at: kglaser@thejc.com

Latest from Karen Glaser

JC blind date: ‘What do I think she thought of me? That I have a somewhat unusual job’

Daniel and Juliette had dinner and lots of laughs at kosher restaurant TukTuk in Golders Green

By Karen Glaser

1 min read

Make me a match: Daniel and Juliette Photo: Gary Manhine

This International Women’s Day we pay tribute to the global face of the hostage campaign

This International Women’s Day we pay tribute to the global face of the hostage campaign

9 min read

JC blind date: ‘I felt we had quite a lot in common’

JC blind date: ‘I felt we had quite a lot in common’

2 min read

An Amnesty protest at the Royal Courts of Justice (Getty)

Why Amnesty won’t get another penny of my money

3 min read

More from Karen Glaser

The JC blind date: ‘It felt more fireplace than fireworks’

For our monthly column, two hopeful singletons had dinner at Israeli chef Eran Tibi’s swanky restaurant Kapara in Soho

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December 31, 2024 15:14

Leor and Charlotte at Kapara (Photo: Gary Manhine)

2024 in review: Jewish art

This past year has seen an outpouring of creativity from Israeli artists who have used their talents as an outlet for trauma and to battle antisemitism and anti-Israel forces

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December 24, 2024 16:05

2024 in review: Jewish art

The JC blind date: ‘I would say yes if he was game’

For this month’s blind date, our two hopeful singletons tucked into Italian deliciousness at the Kensington High Street branch of Spaghetti House

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December 5, 2024 12:37

Flowing conversation: Joseph and Lissa Photo: Gary Manhine

The Israeli flag is more popular than you’d think

Two encounters have restored my optimism that people grasp the reality of what Israel faces

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December 4, 2024 11:30

Demonstrators wave Israeli flags during the 'National March for Gaza' in London on July 6, 2024 Photo: Getty

The 2025 Wingate Prize longlist is announced

The shortlist will be announced next month and the winner in February

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December 2, 2024 11:28

The 2025 Wingate Prize longlist is announced

Following in the paw prints of Paddington in Peru

This month the marmalade-loving bear whose story was inspired by the Kindertransport hits the big screen in Peru. I make the same journey

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November 20, 2024 14:37

Woman at work: painting ceramics at Cuyo Chico

The JC blind date: ‘I think she thought I was a show-off’

For the first of a new monthly column, our two hopeful singletons had dinner at Israeli chef Eyal Shani’s swanky restaurant Lilienblum in Shoreditch

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November 6, 2024 15:02

Catch me a catch: Rachel and Nathan Photo: Gary Manhine

This Yom Kippur will be my dad’s first ever in shul

Despite being entirely secular, October 7 has made him more at ease in the company of Jews

3 min read

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October 9, 2024 10:58

This Yom Kippur will mark a first for Karen's father (Getty Images)

Nobody Wants This: well, ain’t that the truth

The Netflix hit does a disastrous disservice to Jewish and non-Jewish women alike. It is nothing short of the Madonna-whore complex updated for our age

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October 8, 2024 13:21

Kristen Bell as Joanne and Adam Brody as Rabbi Noah in Nobody Wants This. (Photo: Netflix)

A nation’s art in a time of war: How Israel’s artists responded to October 7

This past year has seen an outpouring of creativity from Israeli artists who have used their talents as an outlet for trauma and to battle Jew-hate

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October 1, 2024 14:27

Massacre of the Innocents by Zoya Cherkassky Photo: Fort Ganesvoort, New York, Collection of the Jewish Museum

Why is the National Theatre staging a play with antisemitic tropes on October 7?

Putting on the Lehman Trilogy while the rest of us are marking Oct 7 shows the National Threatre doesn't care about Jews

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August 1, 2024 06:31

The Lehman Trilogy in New York (DON EMMERT/AFP via Getty Images)

This Father’s Day, let’s hear it for patrilineal Jews

Forget the idea that you’re only a Jew if your mother is Jewish. Let’s go back to the Bible

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June 14, 2024 09:00

Like father, like daughter: patrilineal Jew Gwyneth Paltrow with her father Bruce, in 2001 (Photo: Getty Images)

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