Jewish Comedy in Retreat
Jewish Comedy – Skirting Round the Big Issue?
Jewish Comedy – Skirting Round the Big Issue?
The New Statesman’s Mehdi Hassan takes apart the JC editor’s dubious approach
I’ve probably told this story- orally- hundreds of times, in the past nine months. It’s a story I find fascinating, and I ask it of every Israeli I meet: How did you become a dissident?..
Right. As an un-informed outsider, now I get confused – this summers Charedi revolt/violence/discontent in Jerusalem.
Under Stephen Pollard’s editorship, the Jewish Chronicle hasn’t just become more right-wing, its journalistic standards have slipped.
On the way to their military jeep they twisted my arms and beat me. I kept calling out that I wasn’t resisting the arrest, until a hand clutched my throat and I suddenly couldn’t breathe much less shout. Soldiers who passed by the group dragging me to the
Jewdas reveals the JDate adverts which didn’t make the cut.
I always talk about Israeli pacifists and their inability to see the barriers they place on the Palestinian road to justice, dignity, and human rights. Today I’d like to talk about a much more appalling occurrence; Amnesty International supporting Leona
We need radical new Jewish thinking for the 21st century – just don’t expect it from Rabbi Sacks
What if much of the nonsense that goes on in the name of Judaism stems from a basic inability to read?