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Etan Smallman
Yehudis Fletcher
May 18, 2025, 12:39 am
Chutzpah and courage: How Yehudis Fletcher won her fight to be heard
In Chutzpah: A Memoir of Faith, Sexuality and Daring to Stay, the author and campaigner recounts how she helped jail her abuser, exposed failures of rabbinic authority and found strength in the community that once turned its back
By Etan Smallman
Historical photo of James and Deborah in Washington DC
May 1, 2025, 5:17 pm
25 years on, Deborah Lipstadt’s defeat of Shoah denier David Irving remains ‘a line in sand’
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: 'Thank God, I found these two guys who were not emblematic of British Jewry', says the historian of lawyers Anthony Julius and James Libson
By Etan Smallman
Jeremy Neumark Jones as Michael Podchlebnik and Oliver Jackson-Cohen as Szlama Ber Winer in The World Will Tremble
April 21, 2025, 12:40 am
Two men tried to save the Jews—but no one listened
Lior Geller's The World Will Tremble is about the extraordinary escape that could have stopped the Holocaust. Jeremy Neumark Jones knew he had to be in it.
By Etan Smallman
Joaquin the Joker with Jewish roots
September 29, 2024, 11:04 pm
The Jewish Joker
In his sequel to the film that gave Joaquin Phoenix an Oscar, director Todd Phillips further explores the character with very Jewish roots
By Etan Smallman
Arieh Worthalter as the accused in The Goldman Case
September 17, 2024, 3:18 pm
A French armed robber’s trial is the most Jewish film of the year
Antisemitism is on trial in France in The Goldman Case which opens this week
By Etan Smallman
Director Daniela Völker filming at Auschwitz with the son and grandson of the camp Commander
July 5, 2024, 10:22 pm
Coming to terms with a generational curse
The son of the Auschwitz Commandant and a survivor share cake in Daniela Völker's astonishing documentary
By Etan Smallman
Irina in hospital after surgery
April 21, 2024, 7:32 pm
SPECIAL REPORT: ‘I dug my family from the rubble… my son died in my arms’
The testimonies of Ukraine’s Jews, many of them Holocaust survivors, have been preserved in a powerful new project
By Etan Smallman
Sonia Simmenauer
December 13, 2023, 12:20 pm
‘I would not open a Jewish cafe in Germany today’
Sonia Simmenauer opened a heimishe café in Hamburg in 2007. Things were different then
By Etan Smallman
Director Todd Haynes and his May December star Natalie Portman
December 10, 2023, 8:56 pm
Todd Haynes talks about his mum, the middle east and new movie May December
Etan Smallman met the Jewish director with the 'waspy' surname
By Etan Smallman
Golda Meir, JW3
October 6, 2023, 2:12 pm
Jewface row ’embarrassing’ says Golda Meir’s grandson at Jewish News film screening
Gideon Meir was speaking at first showing of biopic of Israel's first female prime minister featuring Helen Mirren at JW3.
By Etan Smallman
Rough Diamonds
April 21, 2023, 3:35 pm
There’s nothing rough about this diamond
Rough Diamonds is a "warm and gritty cross between Shtisel and The Sopranos", writes Etan Smallman of Netflix’s latest strictly Orthodox drama series
By Etan Smallman
Ahmed Obaid Al Mansoori founded Dubai's Holocaust gallery
March 20, 2023, 3:46 pm
Meet Ahmed Al Mansoori, the man behind the first Shoah exhibit in the Arab world
Dubai is an unlikely setting for a Holocaust exhibition, but not for the man who brought it there, writes Etan Smallman.
By Etan Smallman
September 18, 2022, 7:39 pm
OPINION: The Queen’s final act was to bring together many thousands for a unique pilgrimage
After queueing to see Her Majesty's coffin lying-in-state, Etan Smallman reflects on taking part in his greatest collective experience since volunteering at the London Olympics
By Etan Smallman
September 2, 2022, 2:28 pm
The Sunday View: How to get justice for the Munich Olympics massacre
Our mini-documentary series explores the fight for justice from the families of 11 Israeli athletes and coaches killed during the 1972 Summer Olympic Games in Germany
By Etan Smallman and Michael Daventry
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