Joseph Aaron

I am an orphan. My father died 38 years ago and I don’t know if it was because I was much younger or because he had been so sick for so long, had so long…

And the shandahs just keep on coming. It is now getting beyond belief. A couple of weeks ago, we learned in very quick succession that one of the most prestigious rabbis in London had to…

It tells you everything you need to know about how fast and furious the crazy is happening these days in the Jewish world, that I began my column last week with the words ‘what in…

I consider it entrapment. I had vowed to myself that I wasn’t going to write about either Bibi or Trump this week. I got this voicemail message from someone named Shoshana, who launched into a…

I feel like we’ve forgotten what’s normal. We’re living in such crazy times, where so much crazy is going on, so much that is not normal, so much that would have shocked us but a…

I told you so. I know it’s not polite to say that, but I did. I told you that the greatest danger to Jews today is not anti-Semitism but chilul Hashem. We all focus on…

I’ve got to get a few things off my chest. First is this constant insanity I hear from those on the right wing of the political spectrum that I and indeed nobody has the right…

If you need proof that today’s technology has entrapped us all and turned our brains to mush, consider emails. Now one would have thought we’d all have learned all we needed about the dangers of…

Jerry Seinfeld, after a visit to Israel, perfectly summed up the Israeli attitude towards everything; If you ask an Israeli to do something, Seinfeld said, you get one of two answers. ‘No problem at all’…