My Theodor Herzl moment By Richard Mather… In 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army, was unfairly accused of treason. Austro-Hungarian journalist Theodor Herzl witnessed mobs shouting “Death to the Jews” in France and decided there was only one way out of the mess: the mass migration of Jews to a […]
The Rescue of Bulgaria’s Jews in World War II By Rossen Vassilev On February 13, 1998, Bulgarian President Petar Stoyanov accepted on behalf of his ex-Communist nation the Courage to Care Award, which the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) had bestowed upon Bulgaria in recognition of the heroism of its people in saving Bulgarian Jews during World […]
Brexit, Barack Obama and ‘les Anglo-Saxons’ By David Semple… [Les Anglo-Saxons – a French appellation for the English, Canadians, Australians and Americans ] ‘Les Anglo-Saxons’ The Anglo-Saxons were the original Americans. Before they went to America, their ancestors left continental Europe for the British Isles and founded the kingdoms of England in the early Middle […]
Arab depiction of 1972 Munich massacre to be shown at Cannes A documentary film justifying the massacre of Jews at the Munich Olympics in 1972 will be screened at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival, it has emerged. Munich: A Palestinian Story from Lebanese director Nasri Hajjaj shows the murder of eleven Israeli athletes from the […]
The sublime art of Barnett Newman By Richard Mather… The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical – Barnett Newman Barnett Newman was born in 1905 to Abraham and Anna Newman, Jewish immigrants from Poland who came to New York City in 1900. Although […]
The discourse of disunity By Paul Mirbach This Pesach I sense an air of despondency in Israel. It doesn’t have anything to do with our security situation; well not directly, anyway. At a time when all of Israel should be united in celebrating the Festival of Freedom, and our redemption from slavery, never has […]
Why Londoners should not vote for Sadiq Khan on May 5th – Lord Sugar By Lord Alan Sugar via Facebook I joined Labour in 1997 because they’d shown they could be trusted with the British economy. Blair and Brown believed in a strong private sector. They knew you could only afford to pay for good […]
Skinny Pasta – victim or perpetrator? By Ariel Zorrowski Earlier today Skinny Pasta was accused of antisemitism after an ex-franchisee spouted antisemitic rhetoric on the South African companies Facebook and Twitter accounts. South African franchise of popular product sold in Israel decides to attack ‘zionist ashkenNAZI’s (sic)’ on the Internet. What followed was an angry […]
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Jewish Chronicle’s allegation of Pesach tax is ‘unjust’ By Richard Mather A leading member of the British Jewish community has hit back at The Jewish Chronicle over what he calls the newspaper’s “flawed analysis” regarding the Kashrut division of the London Beth Din (KLBD) and the price of Pesach. Stephen Pack, president of The United […]
