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

'It's a funny thing to be happy'

After 20 years of stand up, Josh Howie has his first acting role, in a new sitcom about a Jewish newspaper

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Hadley Freeman's family secrets

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JC Stays: Homewood Hotel, Bath

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The DNA test that let me click back to Tuszyn

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More from Keren David

After ‘Wicked’, the prince of musicals is back

His musical Wicked is a massive hit. Now Stephen Schwartz is back in London for the premiere of The Prince of Egypt, his musical take on Exodus

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February 5, 2020 16:03

After ‘Wicked’, the prince of musicals is back

The lessons we can learn from Windermere

'The transformation in these desperately traumatised children in just a few months seemed magical.'

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January 30, 2020 16:55

The lessons we can learn from Windermere

Colourised Auschwitz film hits heart and soul

Adding colour to footage filmed in the death camp has an extraordinary emotional impact, says Keren David

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January 15, 2020 18:30

Colourised Auschwitz film hits heart and soul

The uncomfortable truth that can’t be denied

'The furore over their victim’s treatment is in no way fuelled by anti-Jewish prejudice, but has everything to do with the way women are treated by men, how criminal justice systems behave towards alleged rape victims, about the assumptions that some young men make about how to behave towards women.'

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January 9, 2020 12:35

The uncomfortable truth that can’t be denied

The art of failing

We can't all be successful all the time but according to the author of a new book, failure can be the best way to get ahead

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January 8, 2020 17:17

Year in Review: the arts in 2019

A year for learning from the past

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December 30, 2019 14:13

Top-spin for the humble dreidel

Eric Pavony set out to make the traditional Chanukah game more exciting - and the spinagogue was born

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December 18, 2019 12:52

The man behind the big menorah

Acts of kindness in the 1960s are still being paid back decades later, in the shape of Chabad's giant menorahs in Essex

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December 18, 2019 12:42

The Chief is not best mates with Boris

'People wanted to believe in this mythical friendship, because that meant they could shrug off the moral question that the Chief Rabbi was posing'

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December 16, 2019 11:36

Playing Scrooge is women’s work

Broadway star Rachel Izen is playing Scrooge in a London theatre - the first woman to take the role

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December 2, 2019 11:56

Facebook boss’s quest for a cancer cure

Nicola Mendelsohn is determined to find a cure for her blood cancer - and last week launched a charity aiming to do just that

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November 27, 2019 17:20

Hollywood's Timothée Chalamet to take to the stage in London

The Jewish actor has also been cast as Paul Atreides in a forthcoming remake of Dune

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November 20, 2019 11:14

Hollywood's Timothée Chalamet to take to the stage in London

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