In the Mag

I am sitting in the chair reading, and hear a group of people talking on the street. A woman enquires whether anything is known about the family living at number 30. “They were…
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Since the first slices of Portnoy’s Complaint  appeared in the 1967 issue of "New American Review" – I was then an Orthodox teenager searching for escape - but later, too, even in…
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Jon Lansman, Momentum founder and a newly elected member of the Labour Party’s National Executive Committee, and D.D. Guttenplan, JQ editor, began talking politics when they first…
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We’ve surpassed ourselves this time,” said London mayor Sadiq Khan at the unveiling of the latest sculpture for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square earlier this year. And it’s…
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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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Power to the people has been the rallying cry of 2017. It’s what propelled Donald Trump to presidency, led Theresa May to call an election (though her bet failed dreadfully, her…
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As the countdown to Brexit begins, the Spring Jewish Quarterly asks how to remain strong as an outsider, in a world increasingly suspicious of the other. From Hannah Arendt's…
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How we Jews present ourselves, individually or collectively, and how we are represented by others, is a key question addressed in the Winter issue of Jewish Quarterly. Yehoshua…
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60 years ago today, the Hungarian Revolution and the Suez Crisis prompted waves of emigration. Marking both of these events, the Autumn 2016 issue focuses on revolution and exile.…
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