Keren David

Keren David is Managing Editor of the Jewish Chronicle. She is also the award-winning author of 13 books for young adults, her most recent is Say No to the Dress, published by Barrington Stoke

Latest from Keren David

From the JC Archive: October 5 1900

Dreyfus’s plight, Boer war soldiers and the election

By Keren David

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From the JC archive: October 4 1974

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 11: Emma Raducanu of Great Britain celebrates winning match point to defeat Leylah Annie Fernandez of Canada during the second set of their Women's Singles final match on Day Thirteen of the 2021 US Open at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 11, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)

It’s not easy being caught between two cultures

3 min read

F63M1D Robert Peston meets Nick Robinson at Cheltenham Literature Festival Featuring: Robert Peston Where: Cheltenham, United Kingdom When: 10 Oct 2015

Robert Peston: the outsider who wants to include us all

6 min read

More from Keren David

Manchester’s buzz

In a city with a talent for reinvention, find a string of new reasons to plan another visit

5 min read

September 12, 2021 15:46

Me and You: ‘I understand Dov and he does me’

Lily Ebert is a survivor of Auschwitz, Dov Forman is one of her 34 great-grandchildren and has taken her testimony about the Shoah to social media - they have more than a million followers on TikTok, and published a book last week

5 min read

September 9, 2021 18:02

Me and You: ‘I understand Dov and he does me’

Canterbury tales

Venture to the Garden of England to discover coast, candle-making and centuries of history in Kent

5 min read

August 22, 2021 16:06

My rainbow baby, born after nine anxious months

Carrie Johnson, wife of the prime minister, is expecting a 'rainbow baby' - one born after pregnancy loss. Keren David recalls her similar experience

2 min read

August 5, 2021 09:33

Pretty woman holding a newborn baby in her arms

The bar on female rabbis is about economics

The men in authority use halacha as an excuse — they are really protecting their position

3 min read

July 15, 2021 14:56

Vector illustration of a woman symbol surrounded by men symbols in a repeating pattern against a purple background.

Welcome back to our house of treasures

The Jewish Museum London is about to reopen. Keren David had a preview.

7 min read

July 8, 2021 11:31

Jewish Museum London names reopening date

Camden museum will welcome back visitors on July 11 after successful online programme

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June 30, 2021 19:59

‘An entire world in one album’

A young girl's 'friendship book' was one of the only things saved when her family was murdered by the Nazis. She and her friends would have been completely forgotten - but writer Claudia Carli vowed to uncover their lost histories

6 min read

June 30, 2021 13:40

Yo ho ho and a couple of mums

When Jodie Lancet-Grant couldn't find picture books to reflect her LGBT family she wrote her own - with a twist

3 min read

June 24, 2021 11:47

There is something Jewish about the Windsors

'I should like to propose a Yiddishe update in which the Royal family is not deposed, but transposed — reimagined as a Jewish clan in North West London.'

3 min read

May 27, 2021 10:06

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II reacts as she meets military personnel during her visit to the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth in Portsmouth, southern England on May 22, 2021, ahead of its maiden operational deployment to the Philippine Sea. - The aircraft carrier will embark on her first operational deployment on May 23, leading the UK Carrier Strike Group in engagements with 40 nations including India, Japan, Republic of Korea and Singapore. (Photo by Steve Parsons / POOL / AFP) (Photo by STEVE PARSONS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Lee Kern: Working class hero

Comedian and writer Lee Kern is up for an Oscar. But, he tells Keren David, there are more important things in life than winning awards.

8 min read

April 15, 2021 11:29

Zoom Judaism has enhanced my spirituality

'I expected that Zoom Judaism would be a watered-down version of the real thing. But the opposite was true.'

3 min read

April 8, 2021 10:50

Desk-level perspective of blonde Buenos Aires businesswoman typing on laptop in office with window view.

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