Category: Jewish

This article is also available as a weekly newsletter, “Life Stories,” where we remember those who made an outsize impact in the Jewish world — or just left their community a better or more interesting place. Subscribe… Continue Reading

By the time I was 76, I thought I knew my father well. He had been an open person who had spoken about his life and hadn’t avoided (as many of my friends’ parents did) talking about the difficult years of the war. I also… Continue Reading

In the new comic book, “We Are Brooklyn: Stories of Hope,” Francil Tejada shares her story about the Dominican Republic, where she was born, and the death of her grandmother, which inspired her to change how she connects… Continue Reading

Educational charity StandWithUs UK has condemned the burning of an Israeli flag at a Jewish student event in London on Tuesday night. According to several witnesses, individuals who were not guests shouted “Free Palestine” when they… Continue Reading

A Goldsmiths University event featuring Palestinian and Israeli speakers calling for co-existence in the Middle East has been picketed by activists claiming they were “appalled” students and some staff members are “collaborating with… Continue Reading

A livestreaming platform popular among video gamers has updated its hate speech policy to ban the word “Zionist” when used as a coded slur directed at individuals or groups of people.  The move by Twitch, an Amazon-owned platform with… Continue Reading

Mark Rosenblatt’s ‘Giant’ concluded its run at the Royal Court on the weekend, a play focused on beloved children’s author and rabid antisemite Roald Dahl. The play takes place around Dahl’s dining room table in 1983 during the… Continue Reading

This week I had the privilege to attend the Young Rabbis event of the Conference of European Rabbis (CER), in Munich, Germany, organised by Gady Gronich, as part of the media and communications team, led by Shimon Cohen. Several dozen… Continue Reading

Every year for the last quarter of a century we have celebrated America’s Thanksgiving festival with a group of colleagues from my decade in Washington as the Guardian’s bureau chief. On the drive to this year’s hosts, who live in… Continue Reading

The oldest stone inscription of the Ten Commandments will go up for auction next month, but with an important disclaimer: Israel allowed the 1,500-year-old tablet to leave the country 20 years ago only on condition that whoever owns it… Continue Reading