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April 11, 2024, 12:22 pm

Luciana Berger: ‘There’s still stigma and discrimination over mental health’

Former MP talks of her sadness at deaths of four close friends at charity dinner for Jewish Action for Mental Health

By Michelle Rosenberg

Luciana Berger during a press conference at which she announced her resignation from the Labour Party. (Photo credit: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire)

January 14, 2024, 9:24 pm

Luciana Berger returns to key role for Labour overseeing mental health strategy

Berger, the former MP for Liverpool Wavertree, has been appointed by Sir Keir Starmer to oversee a cross-government strategy to tackle mental health issues.

By Jewish News Reporter

December 7, 2023, 11:34 am

Emeritus professor at Bristol University calls to ‘blow up’ JLM conference

Harriet Bradley, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Bristol, responds to the announcement of next month's JLM conference by suggesting: 'Someone blow up the venue'

By Lee Harpin

Luciana Berger speaks at Labour conference fringe event (Labour List)

October 8, 2023, 3:46 pm

Luciana Berger makes emotional return to Labour Party conference

Labour First director Luke Akehurst was also moved to tears at Sunday's conference fringe event are he berated the 'extreme-left' for their 'monstrous' defence of Hamas as 'good guys' after the slaughter in Israel

By Lee Harpin

Fiyaz Mughal speaking at the No2H8 Crime Awards

October 5, 2023, 3:52 pm

Nominations open for #No2H8 Crime Awards – honouring those who fight prejudice

Jewish News is a media partner for the awards that have previously recognised former Labour MP Luciana Berger and Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg

By Fergal Jeffreys

September 14, 2023, 3:35 pm

Head Space at Head Room: communal groups hold suicide prevention roundtable

"We are Saving Lives Everyday' discussion in Golders Green included The Jewish Leadership Council's Luciana Berger, mental health charity Jami and chair of the Suicide and Self Harm All Party Parliamentary Group Liz Twist MP

By Michelle Rosenberg

Labour Friends of Israel delegation; July 2023-

August 9, 2023, 11:34 am

OPINION: Israel needs a revival of the centre-left

Mike Tapp's participation in a delegation to Israel and Palestine highlighted the intricate political landscape of the region’s only democracy

By Mike Tapp

Luciana Berger joins LFI delegation's visit to Yad Vashem

July 10, 2023, 5:56 pm

Starmer has returned Labour to an ‘honest broker’ position on Middle East, says Berger

Ex- Labour MP Luciana Berger made her remarks after joining the Labour Friends of Israel group's latest five-day visit to Israel

By Lee Harpin

February 25, 2023, 6:36 pm

Luciana Berger rejoins Labour after Starmer antisemitism apology

The former Liverpool Wavertree MP - who quit Labour due to antisemitism under Jeremy Corbyn - has accepted an invitation from Keir Starmer to rejoin the party

By Lee Harpin

Jeremy Corbyn on Luciana Berger's decision to quit Labour

February 4, 2023, 12:08 pm

Corbyn insists Berger left Labour because ‘she was setting up new party’

In a new interview Jeremy Corbyn has appeared to downplay the impact of antisemitism on Luciana Berger's decision to quit the Labour Party

By Lee Harpin

Ex-NUS president Shaima Dallali was ousted from the union in November 2022 over antisemitism claims.

January 17, 2023, 4:53 pm

OPINION: The NUS spent 17 years teaching students to be racist in a socially acceptable way

In the wake of last week's damning report, the National Union of Students has become part of a wider issue – "putting Jews on trial and finding them guilty", writes Alex Hearn

By Alex Hearn

September 29, 2022, 12:06 pm

‘An act of atonement by the Royal Court’: review of Jews. In Their Own Words.

Jonathan Freedland’s piece of documentary theatre – from an idea by Tracy-Ann Oberman – is imaginative and powerful

By Beatrice Sayers

David Baddiel ((C) Wall to Wall Media Ltd - Photographer: Laurence Turnbull)

September 1, 2022, 1:53 pm

David Baddiel and Howard Jacobson to join launch of antisemitism centre

Other speakers at the inaugural event of the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism will include Rachel Riley, Tracy Ann Oberman and Anthony Julius

By Jenni Frazer

Rudolf Vrba (1924–2006) being interviewed in November 1978 in Central Park, New York, by Claude Lanzmann (1925–2018) for the documentary Shoah (1985).

June 23, 2022, 11:37 am

‘Auschwitz escapee is a hero but also a prophet whose warnings were ignored’

Jonathan Freedland’s new book tells the intriguing tale of Rudolf Vrba, the first Jew to flee the death camp

By Nicole Lampert

January 26, 2022, 1:01 pm

OPINION: Luciana Berger: I understand Nus Ghani’s pain at being ‘othered’ for her faith

Former MP who was driven out of Labour by antisemitism identifies with Conservative, Nusrat Ghani, fired as a minister because her ‘Muslimness’ made colleagues feel 'uncomfortable

By Luciana Berger

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