One of world Jewry’s most influential leaders and communicators passed away over the weekend, leaving an incalculable void
Taxi driver Jackie Young found out he wasn’t who he thought he was
London, on the night Britain left the European Union, during a brief lull in the culture wars to allow one side its victory dance
Esther Cailingold was disillusioned with the British Empire’s treatment of Jews after the Holocaust. So she joined the Jewish resistance in Palestine.
The Romantic poet’s underappreciated collaboration with the pioneering Hebrew scholar Hyman Hurwitz made him more of a Hebraist than most readers know
The reaction to a rescinded European literary award exposes the hypocrisy of cultural boycotts
How Sefton Goldberg saved my life
Why Jewish self-determination is inconvenient to the aims of hate
Why so often in history has it been permissible to speak in disparaging ways about entire subsections of humanity, and why does it seem to be that way again?
A small act of resistance in the middle of Soho at lunchtime
A trove of communications from Britain’s Labour Party leader to his minions reveals the difference between a hipster and Hezbollah
A worthy new biography of the late historian Eric Hobsbawm shows the ardent communist in the crucible of the 20th century
Or, how the Jews reconquered London
How Winston Churchill suppressed the true extent of the former King Edward VIII’s collaboration with Nazi Germany
First in a series on the American left: Will left-wing anti-Zionists and anti-Semites in America succeed in hollowing out the traditional liberal left in the United States, as they have in Britain and France?
Misplaced historical values, survivors dying off, the Labour Party’s new rhetoric, and pressures on secondary curricula are all contributing to a generation of U.K. children with little or incorrect knowledge of the horrors of World War II
Like the West Bank in Israeli politics, Brexit presents the British with a hopeless dilemma
Two former British prime ministers issue stark warning about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party