'From the outrage you’d think I defended someone driving 250 miles in a car full of Covid droplets, a sick wife and an impermeable sense of privilege'
'After eight weeks at home I had a need to see and smell and touch the sea, no matter how briny the water or how stony the beach'
Being of an over-literal disposition, Jews take government edicts personally, says Norman Lebrecht
'Revellers' is a term invented by newspaper lawyers to imply misconduct without risking a libel writ, writes Norman Lebrecht
If Covid had struck while Harold Wilson was prime minister, he would have simply called on a Jewish industrialist to help out. Shame on us - except Alex, 11, and his 3D printer
Save the paper - and yourselves - by getting your own copies
On coronavirus, our rabbinate did too little, too late
Norman Lebrecht praises the barmitzvah boys of today
All over the country, you can hear parents silently cheering
Add the JC to your media empire and there will be a silver kiddush cup with your name engraved on it waiting for you
Norman Lebrecht remembers Reb Shmelke Pinter
Never in the field of human isolation was so much Torah taught to so many, writes Norman Lebrecht
At the onset of lockdown, Norman Lebrecht worries about those Jews who come to synagogue to lose themselves
Norman Lebrecht reflects on the history and theology of the Anglo-Jewish ritual, now suddenly suspended amid the pandemic
The 1876 novel Daniel Deronda was a bestseller in many languages - including Yiddish
Norman Lebrecht recalls the conversations with his friend, the distinguished theatre and opera director Jonathan Miller has died aged 85
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