Writing on Community
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10 September 2026
The bar on Catholics and Jews advising the King on bishops is not an insult to Catholics and Jews. It is the seam that holds the established church apart from the state. If you want to unpick it, say so, and let us argue.
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8 September 2026
Apply your Moroccan standard, or your Turkish one, or your Crimean one, but apply one standard.
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30 August 2026
I would focus on the places where British Jews need practical change: workplaces, public institutions and universities.
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28 August 2026
I want British Jews to do more than feel secure enough to endure. I want us to live openly, confidently and joyfully, as the whole Jewish tribe.
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16 July 2026
I am not asking you to defend the Jews. I am asking you to defend the establishment, and the un-radical proposition that the church of the whole nation cannot pick which of the nation's minorities it will hear
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13 July 2026
As an Orthodox Jew I had to wait 18 minutes into the match before turning on the TV – but after that I was cheering just as loud as any other fan
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28 May 2026
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28 April 2026
Here's a timeline for you — from a Guardian column minimising hate crimes against a Jewish-linked bakery to 'Columnist of the Year' six weeks later.
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1 April 2026
Tonight we sit down to the Seder. We'll eat the matzah, dip the herbs, sing the songs.
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23 March 2026
Every Sunday evening, between the ages of about eight and fifteen, I went to a Jewish youth group in west London.
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12 November 2020
A mental image of the Jewish intellectual space — and what it meant to lose the person who stood by the open French window between Jewish and non-Jewish thought.
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