Below is a selection of my work from 2013. View all my recent articles for The Jewish Chronicle and theJC.com here. View my opinion pieces for The JC here and view a selection of my work from 2012 here.
May 2013
- Features Refugees who escaped to ‘Downton’
- News Arts value is ‘far beyond money’
- News Nate Silver predicts ‘crash and burn’ for UK independence Party
- News Top Hat? Top show, say Olivier judges
- News I’ve made mistakes over apprentices, says Lord Sugar
- News ‘Propaganda’ claim over pulled BBC Jerusalem documentary
April 2013
- News The tragic poet Oscar Wilde called a genius
- News Secret documents reveal plans for ‘British Haganah’ in Palestine as Mandate ended
- Comment This teenage squabbling will drive young members away
- Features Camels? Israeli art is about far more
- News British saw 1948 Jewish fighters as ‘like those of Nazi Germany’
- News Reform rabbi in Thatcher funeral snub
- News Revealed: the UK’s best young writers
- News Ben-Gurion and the debate over Winston Churchill’s funeral
- Comment Justin Bieber and Anne Frank: Why the fuss?
- News British warned of ‘bitterness’ over handling of the Exodus ship
- News Pensioners warned over the cost of Aliyah
- Features Picoult aims to boost Shoah education by novel approach
- News Margaret Thatcher: One of Us
- News Foreskin Man is back to battle Muslim circumcision
- Books Jodi Picoult on the Shoah
March 2013
- News Bilateral trade benefits from a taste of Israeli medicine
- Comment The way we were — and still are?
- News When the prince went to Jerusalem
- News Revealed: the hidden Nazi death camps
- News Livingstone to deliver anti-racist talk
- News The man who painted early Israel
- News MP Ward still not sorry but Lib Dems plan to act
- News British diplomat attacked by mob at West Bank university
- News Hebrew University recognised by Times Higher Education list
- News Few left to fight in Galloway’s Bradford
- News What we were doing last time Pesach was this early, back in 1899
- News ITV comedy Plebs is an urban sitcom, just set in Ancient Rome
- News Playboy launches in Israel
- News Romanian restitution is in the dock
- News UK academics to study poetry of Shoah
February 2013
- News City University pulls Islam prayer space over sermons content
- News British journalist John McCarthy fails to charm at Book Week
- News Clegg response to David Ward is ‘fig leaf’
- Comment After the offence, maybe ‘sorry’ is just another word
- News Jewish Book Week defends Lithuanian invitation
- News Lib Dems could remove whip from ‘the Jews’ MP David Ward
- News Man who took on the BNP to contest Hampstead and Kilburn for Conservatives
- News Oxford, Cambridge work together to preserve Jewish texts
- News Mission to record last of Aramaic
- News The Innocents: It’s the Kosher Downton Abbey
- News Sunday Times apologises over cartoon but Ward unrepentant
- Interview Robin Lustig
- Feature Glasgow’s Calderwood Lodge ‘going in right direction’
January 2013
- News Teachers encouraged to join unions to combat anti-Israel rhetoric
- News Murder most foul: death of a Jewish officer that moved Queen Victoria
- News Haim: We want to perform in Israel
- News After Hurricane Sandy a sheitel donor comes to the rescue
- News Survivors featured in Channel 4 documentary
- News Ban on non-Jewish names on graves
- News Hendon named key election 2015 battleground by Labour
- News A drawing a day keeps the artist ok
- Comment Time to rediscover the land where dreams are fulfilled
- Features The Hollywood director who thinks Holocaust films don’t tell the right story
- News Holocaust survivors tweet to reach new generation
- News Scarfe “regrets timing” of Sunday Times Netanyahu cartoon
- News Lib Dem MP criticised for ‘abusing memory’ of Holocaust victims
- News Lee Jasper shows no respect for Israel or HMD
