Norman Lebrecht
Revealed: BBC is koshering The Archers
The Beeb has a new Jewish chair. Change is afoot
Hang in there. Grim times come and go
Wake up and smell the 2021 coffee. Brexit is done and a vaccine is here
Cher Monsieur Macron, let’s not let le Brexit get between us
'The moment you allow me back on the Eurostar, I will be happy to explain to you why it is that so many of your citizens, especially the Jewish ones, prefer this side of La Manche so much'
Netflix is giving religion a run for its money
I soon found that Netflix is full of yiddishkeit but it was a Turkish delight that taught me most
Don’t be upset by Dahl, just don’t read him
'When I heard he was antisemitic, my first response was: they couldn’t find a better writer?'
The Irish? We’re cut from the same cloth
'We’re both marginal to Europe and thrive on an edgy disposition. We both used violence to wrest national sovereignty from the Brits.'
Ask not for whom the bells jingle
The prime minister has decreed we will have Christmas - and we all know what that means for Jews
In memory of our quiet achievers
'This November, when the JC’s social and personal pages are filling up faster than ICU beds, I hardly dare to look for fear of who I might find'
Meet Barbara Emhoff, mother of Doug, the Jewish lawyer married to Vice President Kamala Harris
Kamala’s Jewish mother in law could be coming to the White House
The Westminster Holocaust memorial is a pile of junk
'Lady Deech and Brian Doctor QC make an irrefutable case which shows the memorial to be unsightly, ineffectual, insecure and unrepresentative of British values'
Shuls are closing but I’m trying to count my blessings
'A few hotheads in my sect are threatening to gather for private prayer in full shawls and leather straps outside the gates every morning. If I can’t stop them, I might just join them'
Shapps plan is on a road to nowhere
He has told the mayor that, in order to pay for empty buses and trains during Covid, Sadiq Khan should extend a £15 congestion charge all the way round the North and South Circular roads
A chupah for non-Jews is a step too far
Open up the ceremony to a partner who is not Jewish and the chupah has as much holiness as a factory-reject colander
Stop the clocks: an eruv is born
For the first time since the Second Temple, Jews in Camden and St John’s Wood were able to observe the Sabbath to the fullness of rabbinic law
The past is a foreign country...
...we did things differently there
Why the Guardian got RBG so wrong
The late US Supreme Court justice married a Jewish lawyer and sent her kids to Hebrew school - no sign that she 'abandoned her religion' aged 17
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