Jewish

In the stark opening moments of Disobedience , the film adaptation of Naomi Alderman’s 2006 debut novel, a weighty question is posed: What does it mean to have free will?. In an…
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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 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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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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Sundays never lose that bittersweet feeling, when you savour the freedom of the weekend while fighting off that niggling “have I done all my homework?” voice inside. That’s what…
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Last year, for the first time in over a decade, I attended a Yom Kippur service. Not only did I attend, I was convinced to join three others in leading the mincha service. This is…
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“It’s aliiiiivvve!” Any excuse to quote from the Book of Brooks (Young Frankenstein) is good enough for me, but JQ has plenty to shout about. We have a new design – smaller,…
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GO BACK 3 SPACES whenever you say anti-Semitism doesn’t exist in Labour and it’s all smears to bring down Jeremy Corbyn. The party leader himself now admits it exists, so is Jeremy…
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For myself, I’ve always hated the term “self-hating Jew.” A device to shut down dissent, dished out when the dissident has crossed some line marked out by other Jews, it’s also a…
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Jews have played a central part in the history of Hungary. Before the First World War, five per cent of the country’s population was Jewish, and between a quarter and half of…
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