A prominent politician of Jewish origin has recently been received into the Roman Catholic Church, “Reynolds Newspaper” reports. No announcement of the conversion, the paper adds, is to be made for ...
Knighthood was conferred upon Benjamin Arthur Cohen, K.C., son of the late Rt. Hon. Arthur Cohen, who was for many years president of the Board of Jewish Deputies to which post he succeeded his uncle, ...
Was Sir Moses Haim Montefiore the first Jewish celebrity of the modern age? A strong affirmative is the thesis of Abigail Green’s “Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero,” a biography of ...
Separate the signal from the noise about antisemitism and understand current debates over Jewish safety. Sign up for the Antisemitism Decoded newsletter today. Peter Sellers, the English Jewish ...
I have received two long letters arguing with my column of two weeks ago, in which I objected to the term “Arab Jew.” Here are parts of them. From Jack Warga of Boynton Beach, Fla.: My family lived ...
Probably the most famous Anglo-Jew of the 19 th century, the much-beloved Moses Montefiore (1784-1885) was scrupulously observant of his faith and used his personal standing to further the cause of ...