On Saturday evening, Tommy Robinson will be speaking in Tel Aviv. He has been invited by Amiḥai Chikli, the Israeli Minister for the Diaspora in Netanyahu’s government who has had countless run-ins with many Jewish organisations in the UK. The Chief Rabbi, Sir Ephraim Mirvis, refused to attend a conference earlier this year because Chikli … Read more
Dear Jake I too join my colleagues, Jonathan Freedland, Hadley Freeman and David Aaronovitch in resigning from writing for the Jewish Chronicle. My name first appeared in the JC in 1966 and I have contributed to the paper for over 50 years. During your editorship, the JC has become sensationalist and unbalanced in its coverage. The … Read more
At the beginning of this month, Victor Kara-Murza, a British-Russian dissident, was suddenly released from his Siberian strict-regime camp and flown out of Russia as part of a major prisoner exchange. Murderers and spies were taken to the East, free thinkers and human rights activists were taken to the West. When asked if this exchange … Read more
Kaddish2 Yitgadal V’yitkadash Shmei RabaAnd no one cameMany thousands called Him on Shabbat morning Crying His name out loudBegging Him with tears just to comeBut He ceased from all His workNo God cameAnd no God calmedOnly Satan celebrated uninterrupted ISRAEL AS PART OF THE DIASPORA 7 October 2023 was the day when Israel became part … Read more
Sidney Reilly – the latest subject in the Yale University Press biography series, Jewish Lives – was born Shlomo Rosenblum in Odesa or Kherson or Bendzin or Pruzhany in either 1872 or 1874. He also seems to have convinced British Intelligence that he was an Irishman, born in Clonmel. The subject of countless books and a … Read more