It has no business to be enforcing irrational rules in private spaces, especially when it has yielded the highest Covid-19 death rate in Europe
'Before there was Wikipedia, I went to shul for answers'
Norman Lebrecht tells of the three notable Jewish women from history he omitted - and why they should have been included
At the height of the Covid pandemic when more prudent Jews observed lockdown, Charedim kept totting up their air-miles
Coffee is for when we go abroad to frugal places like Israel, where Wissotsky tea-bags are hung out on a washing line and reused twice
The trouble begins the moment the film leaves Williamsburg, at which point it suffers a reality fail so severe as to make all that follows utterly unbelievable
'Old KGB tricks have been called into the service of BLM. Universities, once paragons of free thought, have turned into echo chambers of empty slogans. Independent thinkers are de-platformed.'
'Rabbis have discreetly implored street minyan men to return to their pews — but the men I met are, like English Zionists, are in no hurry to test the Law of Return'
Arts Council questionnaire looks troublingly prejudiced
The world has lost two of its finest in one day, but their memories are for a blessing
'Like some events of the Jewish Music Institute in this country, it’s all so naively conceived you almost want to send a donation'
Children under bar mitzvah age are currently prohibited from attending. If schools can do it, why can't shuls?
Have you seen any matches since abnormal service resumed? That will be us when shul resumes.
'You learn after a few weddings not to argue with caterers. Or to tell them anything. They will do as they please.'
Reform Judaism has ruled its synagogues are too sacrosanct for the holding of religious services and will therefore stay shut for the high holydays
Isaac Herzog would get on famously with Boris, Prince Charles and Sir Keir, writes Norman Lebrecht
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