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PM Keir Starmer addresses a packed Commons
July 17, 2024, 11:56 am
OPINION: We’ve come a long way in Westminster
Our current Parliament – with 13 Jewish MPs – is the least religious in history, writes Derek Taylor
By Derek Taylor
King Charles III departs Westminster Abbey after his coronation ceremony
March 18, 2024, 10:31 am
OPINION: Prophets of doom spout nonsense about collapse of the House of Windsor
It can’t be easy being royal when everything you do is scrutinised to see if a media story can be invented out of it, writes Derek Taylor
By Derek Taylor
Hermann_Adler. Pic: Wikipedia
March 4, 2024, 2:22 pm
Opinion: The intertwining of the Rothschilds with a 19th century King’s Chief Rabbi
Jewish News' historian Derek Taylor on the links between a legendary banking dynasty and the 19th century's Hermann Adler, the Victorian era's religious leader referred to as 'My Chief Rabbi' by King Edward VII
By Derek Taylor
Supporter of the British Union of Fascists in the 1930s.
February 9, 2024, 10:26 am
OPINION: Fascism’s past and antisemitism’s present
Jewish News' historian on the dangers of giving poisonous opinions the oxygen of credibility and publicity
By Derek Taylor
The magnificent interior of 300-year-old Bevis Marks Synagogue (C) Blake Ezra Photography
January 12, 2024, 7:55 pm
OPINION: All minorities deserve their own History Month
If there is to be a Jewish history month, then there should be dedicated month for all religious minorities, writes Jewish News' historian Derek Taylor
By Derek Taylor
Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion, left, signs a document in Tel Aviv, Palestine, proclaiming the new Jewish State of Israel in Tel Aviv at midnight on May 14, 1948.
December 5, 2023, 2:11 pm
OPINION: How the war will end is not history yet, but this is how we got here
From the Canaanites to the British, Jewish News' historian Derek Taylor reflects on how the current conflict is shaped by the preceding centuries.
By Derek Taylor
Members of the community in Ra’anana painted empty chairs to represent the hostages in Gaza
November 20, 2023, 12:44 pm
OPINION: Civilians face greatest risk in war with an unconcerned enemy
What would Israel’s critics have done if 1,200 of their citizens had been slaughtered? Shrug their shoulders?, asks Jewish News historian Derek Taylor.
By Derek Taylor
Mourners gather around the five coffins of the Kotz family during their funeral in Gan Yavne.
October 27, 2023, 6:16 pm
OPINION: Faced with subhuman barbarism on our border, what would we do?
Suppose 260 people were killed in Glastonbury? The atrocity in Manchester killed 22 and we're still appalled by it, writes Jewish News historian Derek Taylor, who survived a V2 bomb in 1944.
By Derek Taylor
Ken Livingstone at Church House, Westminster, London, for his disciplinary hearing where he faced a charge of engaging in conduct that was grossly detrimental to the party following his controversial comments about Adolf Hitler.
September 22, 2023, 11:05 am
OPINION: Ken Livingstone – a controversial legacy examined
Historian Derek Taylor looks back on Ken Livingstone's chequered relations with the Jewish community as it's revealed the former London mayor is living with Alzheimer's.
By Derek Taylor
Sargent, John Singer; Sir Philip Sassoon; Wikipedia
September 12, 2023, 10:41 am
OPINION: The minyan of Jews involved in the British War Office since 1924
Historian Derek Taylor on 100 years of Jewish politicians working in key governmental defence roles, from Sir Phillip Sassoon to Grant Shapps.
By Derek Taylor
French riot police officers walk next to a vehicle upside down during the fifth day of protests following the death of Nahel, a 17-year-old teenager killed by a French police officer in Nanterre during a traffic stop, in Paris, France, July 2, 2023. (photo credit: REUTERS/JUAN MEDINA)
July 10, 2023, 2:11 pm
OPINION: The latest Jewish cavalry
Bienvenue and welcome to the French Jews arriving en masse to the UK amidst vandalism, looting, riots and anti-semitism in their home country, writes historian Derek Taylor.
By Derek Taylor
Rabbi Slomo Koves walks across the parking area of the House of Fates Holocaust museum in Budapest, Hungary on Aug. 27, 2021. (Cnaan Liphshiz)
June 5, 2023, 3:48 pm
OPINION: Hungry for recognition in Hungary
A report by the Anti Defamation League reveals 30% of Hungarians believe Jews are too influential on business: Derek Taylor details the great contribution of Hungarian Jewry to the world
By Derek Taylor
King Charles III departs Westminster Abbey after his coronation ceremony
May 7, 2023, 2:31 pm
OPINION: High spirits and high security marked Charles’ crowning moment
Jewish News' historian Derek Taylor reflects on how every person who worked on plans for the King's coronation will be breathing an enormous sigh of relief after a triumphant occasion.
By Derek Taylor
Junior Doctors on strike. PA, via BBC.
April 17, 2023, 2:06 pm
OPINION: Whatever happened to the Hippocratic Oath?
A junior doctor's moral responsibility is to save lives not to strike and put patients at risk, writes historian Derek Taylor
By Derek Taylor
MP Robert Jenrick (right), with the late Holocaust survivor Sir Ben Helfgott and his grandson Reuben at Victoria Gardens in Westminster in July 2021.
April 11, 2023, 7:08 pm
OPINION: Should the Westminster’s Holocaust Memorial wait for better economic times?
With so much debate for and against the £100million monument in Victoria Tower Gardens, is there an argument for putting the plans on hold, asks historian Derek Taylor?
By Derek Taylor
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