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The OG* Of Middle Eastern Food (* Original Grandmother)
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…
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A Lizard’s Tale
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…
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The Left And The Jews
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…
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Two Buses To Brownsville
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…
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A Great Miracle Happened There
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.…
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All About Alice
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…
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Shylock’s Ghost
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,…
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Clive Sinclair (1948-2018): The Forgotten Revolutionary
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…
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In The Echo Chamber: Writing about the Holocaust
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…
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A new prayer for a new year
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…
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