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Futureman. Is that a Jewish name?
Here’s a thing I wrote for the Jewish Quarterly. Future Rabbi? Congratulate me. I’ve just written a whole sheet of A4 by pen. After years of computercentricity it felt weird, foreign, as unwelcome a...
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Les Jews Olympiques
This article first appeared in the Jewish Chronicle. When I suggested doing a show about “Jews and the Olympics” for Jewish Book Week, I recognised the suspicious look in the organiser’s eyes. It was a...
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Very Superstitious
The Queen Mum. Nothing to do with me. Here’s a thing I wrote for the Jewish Quarterly. I am superstitious. Medieval-peasant superstitious. Large-gossipy-18th-century-shtetl-fishwife superstitious. I’ll...
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Jews and Gardens
A lulav and etrog. What the hell ARE they? This article was written for the Jewish Quarterly. Last week I finally tackled my garden (this is not a euphemism). What was once a small but impressive...
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Let’s kick uglism out of politics
Platypus? This article was first published in The Guardian I was appalled to see in a recent opinion poll that 74% of voters said they would be more likely to vote Labour if Ed Miliband changed his...
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