Features

Just when you think the UK food scene is full to bursting with Middle Eastern-themed writers and chefs, bakers and recipe-makers, that’s when you notice the enduring presence of a…
Read More...

It’s 8:47am on a brisk March morning earlier this year. I’m in the Houses of Parliament. I’m told it’s the first time anyone has been invited in to perform a one-person show there…
Read More...

The summer of 2018 has been the Labour Party's season of discontent. In July, an initiative announced by its governing body, the National Executive Committee (NEC), sparked a storm…
Read More...

This is happening in my backyard. That’s what I kept saying to myself and anyone else who would listen. I did not mean the families torn apart by the US Border Patrol, or the…
Read More...

The following is adapted from a series of interviews and articles commissioned by Goldberg.nu to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the October 1943 “Rescue” of the Danish Jews.…
Read More...

On the deck of the SS Filippo Grimani bringing Alice Shalvi to Israel in October 1949, a group of Jewish refugees from Greece and the Balkans were singing Hebrew songs and dancing…
Read More...

My son, the movie director, has flown over from LA to shoot a reboot of The Merchant of Venice, at locations in Golders Green and Kenwood. The title has been adjusted accordingly,…
Read More...

Clive Sinclair spent most of his life in search of his “inner cowboy”. He grew up in North London, in the 1950s as a self-styled “Hendonite”. The dullness of suburban life was…
Read More...

E.M. Forster calls it the echo chamber. No writer exists in a void – we share an echo chamber with writers who have gone before us: trod the same ground, left behind their…
Read More...

The State of Israel is currently poised on the cusp of legally reducing the status of its Arab citizens and their language.  In another development, and a first in Israeli…
Read More...