The Jewish Chronicle opinion piece, on UK Politics, 11 November 2026
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Read the original article on thejc.com (opens in a new tab)Rabbi Hayim Leiter's column agrees with Max Olesker, author and star of the show "Making the Cut", that religious courts make conversion needlessly hard, even for people raised as Jews. It then argues that Olesker's remark in the Guardian, that this is "an incredibly strange time to be Jewish", treats antisemitism too lightly. The column is opinion, and on the tests that apply to opinion we found nothing to catalogue: it names no community as a threat, smears no named person and uses no misleading figures.
Opinion piece: read for false claims of fact and for fairness to the people it names, not for its opinions.
“By his own account in the Guardian, none of this was easy.”
The column ties Olesker's experience to his own published account in the Guardian, so the reader knows the source of the conversion story it discusses.
“Olesker also acknowledged that his theatrical performance must be received differently at “an incredibly strange time to be Jewish.””
Before criticising Olesker, the column quotes his actual words, so the reader can judge for themselves whether the criticism is fair.
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