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July 30, 2025, 11:15 pm

What do Stephen Fry, David Baddiel and Theodor Herzl have in common?

New documentary about the founder of Zionism will be shown at Jewish Film Festival later this year

By Jenni Frazer

July 30, 2025, 4:01 pm

Baddiel: Double standards in treatment of cancelled Jewish comedians

Author of 'Jews Don't Count' says Edinburgh Fringe venue's removal of shows by Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon shows 'reflex conflation of British Jews with Israel'

By Michelle Rosenberg

June 26, 2025, 10:29 am

It’s all about being funny by Bennett Arron and Ivor Baddiel

Comedy’s changed, but the game is still on

By Bennett Arron & Ivor Baddiel

September 15, 2024, 2:55 pm

Five Jewish Chronicle writers quit, accusing it of prioritising politics over journalism

Star columnists Jonathan Freedland, Hadley Freeman, David Baddiel and David Aaronovitch announced their departures. They are joined by Colin Shindler, professor of Israel studies.

By Adam Decker

December 25, 2023, 5:45 pm

Sitcom writer claims David Baddiel ‘breached IHRA antisemitism definition’

Limmud 2023: Gary Sinyor tells audience: 'I have a real problem, I'm sorry to say, with David Baddiel and his book 'Jews Don't Count'

By Lee Harpin

Bennett Arron forms part of the lineup on Let My People Laugh

December 18, 2023, 1:24 pm

OPINION: Comedy is hard enough, let alone in the current climate

Comedian Bennett Arron explains the situation for mirth makers of the faith

By Bennett Arron

December 8, 2023, 5:11 pm

OPINION: Josh Glancy on how the October pogrom knocked Baddiel off his fence

The massacre showed British Jews that, like it or not, our lives are inextricably linked to Israel's

By Josh Glancy

November 29, 2023, 12:53 pm

OPINION – MAUREEN LIPMAN: The largest Jewish gathering in history, noch without any food

The hugely-loved community figure says she is proud of 'my brave people and their compassionate colleagues' on a historic day in central London

By Maureen Lipman

June 10, 2023, 6:47 pm

Zoom Rockman – the young man behind the must-see exhibition of the summer

Lord Sugar, Dame Maureen Lipman and David Baddiel are among the stars on display at The Jewish Hall of Fame at JW3

By Debbie Collins

Students at the Horev girls high school in Jerusalem in a Purim skit mocking Mizrahi Jews. (Screenshot)

April 18, 2023, 11:53 am

OPINION: Blackface, cultural appropriation and Jew-on-Jew racism

"Racism is never a prank," writes Hen Mazzig following the release of a racist YouTube video made by Israeli students stereotyping Mizrahi Jews.

By Hen Mazzig

April 12, 2023, 12:54 pm

REVIEW: David Baddiel’s affectionate two fingers up to faith

It would be a sea-splitting miracle if The God Desire has the cultural impact of the author's previous seminal work, writes Richard Ferrer. This time the iconoclast bites off more than he can Jew.

By Richard Ferrer

World Jewish Relief Annual Dinner 2023, Round House, Camden

February 22, 2023, 11:31 am

Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel take podcast double act to World Jewish Relief annual dinner

King Charles sends message to charity, praising the "tremendous example" its set "over the last 90 years” as guests celebrate milestone anniversary of humanitarian agency

By Michelle Rosenberg

David Baddiel in conversation with Jo Coburn, 24 January 2023, Hilton Park Lane. Credit: Anne Frank Trust UK

January 24, 2023, 6:16 pm

‘To imagine we are not victims is a terrible wrong in history’, Baddiel tells Anne Frank Trust

Comedian expanded on the thesis of his recent book Jews Don't Count – that antisemitism is deemed a less legitimate form of racism – at Tuesday's Anne Frank Trust UK lunch.

By Michelle Rosenberg

Credit: Wiener Holocaust Library Twitter

January 20, 2023, 4:02 pm

David Baddiel and Matt Lucas discuss acquiring German citizenship

The event, at Westminster Synagogue, took place under the auspices of the AJR, Wiener Holocaust Library and German Embassy.

By Jenni Frazer

January 3, 2023, 1:15 pm

OPINION: Vibrant, yes, but all is not well in the community

Can our community make 2023 the year it accommodates the unaffiliated masses? Alex Brummer assesses the potential pitfalls facing British Jewry.

By Alex Brummer

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