Nathan Abrams

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Congrats @Arsenal The best team won it this season. 👏🏻

We did it, together.

Mikel Arteta becomes the first coach from the FAW system to win the @PremierLeague, marking a significant milestone in a coaching journey that began at Dragon Park more than a decade ago. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Llongyfarchiadau, Mikel! 👏

🏆 ARSENAL ARE CHAMPIONS 🏆

The Arsenal. Your Premier League champions.

Kubrick watches Elisha Cook and Marie Windsor rehearse on the set of The Killing, 1955. Windsor landed the part of Sherry Peatty after Kubrick saw her performance in the 1952 film noir, The Narrow Margin. #TheKilling #StanleyKubrick #BehindTheScenes

Jacob Isaac Meyer de Haan Assoupi dans la synagogue - 1883

🚨🚨🗣️ Wayne Rooney on West Ham United vs Arsenal Game: 🤯 “People keep talking about individuals, moments, luck, referees and all the rest of it, but when I watch Arsenal, I see a proper football team. I see a side that is coached at the very highest level. Honestly, if you don’t rate this Arsenal team or you can’t understand the level of football they’re playing, then I’m sorry, you simply do not know football. And I’m saying that as someone who’s played the game at the top level for years. This Arsenal side are unbelievable. Absolutely unbelievable. They are so compact, so organised, so disciplined in everything they do. There are no gaps, no panic, no unnecessary risks. Every single player understands his role. When you watch them, you almost don’t even see individuals anymore, you see a programme. You see a machine. Everything is synchronised. It takes a very high football IQ and tactical understanding to truly appreciate the level this team operates at. People will watch them and say ‘they’re boring’ or ‘they’re robotic’, but do you know what I call it? Elite. I call it winning football. I call it a team that knows exactly who they are. There’s a reason they leave no lapses for opponents. There’s a reason teams struggle to break them down. There’s a reason they control matches the way they do. That doesn’t happen by accident. I backed Arsenal from the very beginning of the season to win this league and people laughed at me. People told me City would walk it, people said Arsenal would bottle it again, but look where we are now. Two games left and Arsenal are on the verge of becoming champions. And honestly, I’m delighted for them because they deserve it. The fans deserve it as well. Arsenal supporters have waited a long, long time for this feeling. They’ve gone through years of frustration, banter, disappointment, nearly moments, false dawns, all of it. But they stayed patient. They kept believing in the club, believing in the process, believing in the manager and the players. Now they’re finally about to get rewarded for that patience. I think Mikel Arteta deserves enormous credit because what he’s built is not just a good side, it’s a culture. There’s standards there now. Serious standards. Every player fights for each other, every player works, every player sacrifices. That’s why they’re champions in my eyes. And I’ll say this as a Manchester United man, this is the level I want Manchester United to get back to. This is the standard. Watching Arsenal now reminds me of what elite football clubs should look like. The control, the hunger, the mentality, the structure. When you get to this level, football becomes enjoyable again for the fans because they trust their team completely. Arsenal fans can finally smile again because this team has given them something to be proud of. And I genuinely believe this is only the beginning for them. I think they’re going to do great things over the next few years. So to everyone who laughed at my prediction earlier in the season, you’re not laughing now. Maybe it’s time people start respecting this Arsenal side properly because what they’re doing is special.”

Join me for the launch of my latest book. It's at Storiel in Bangor on June 13th. It's free, and all are welcome. eventbrite.co.uk/e/lansiad-llyf…

So this image has a lot going on. Intentionally or otherwise, it draws on age-old stereotypes that demonise Jews and infantilise the Palestinians demonstrating a white saviour complex compounded by the clear Christian imagery that also invokes the crusades.

Issachar Ber Ryback "Pogrom de Kiev" - 1919.

Listen to someone who actually knows ball. It’s not always the 5-4 hockey scoreline 👍🏽 x.com/Kj88776Kjetil/…

The i Paper recommends the National Eisteddfod yr Urdd. For many Welsh parents this is a rite of passage/chore (Isabel has and will compete in it this year.) It is perhaps the world’s oldest cultural festival with some invented biblical roots (think Limmud but with competitions).

Renovation on a bookshop in Guildford, England in 1996,revealed a medieval chamber forgotten beneath the ground for some 700 years. Archaeologists have identified it as a Synagogue dating back to the year 1180. The oldest Synagogue remains on the British Isles.

The Irene Silver Memorial Scholarship: Jewish Women’s Contribution to Wales The School of Arts and Humanities, Bangor University Application Deadline: 14 July 2026 Start Date: 28 September 2026 Contact me for details. Please share.

We are running a workshop, 'Exploring and Tackling Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Wales', at Bangor University on Friday, 24th April 2026, 10-12 a.m. Please contact me for further details. @JHASW2018, @JewishStudiesUK @welshjewishCC

Lovely piece in The JC by Gaby Koppel, one of our trustees, about her memories of Michael Moritz as a young man in Cardiff. His new memoir, Ausländer, has just been published and we get a credit for the research we did for it. Which is nice. thejc.com/life/my-youth-…

Our latest newsletter, with details of our new projects and much more besides, has now been uploaded to our website. Exciting times! jhasw.com/newsletter

Our interns from Cardiff University have been researching the histories of Welsh-Jewish servicemen and women from WWI. We concluded the internship yesterday with a visit to @FiringLine Thanks to all the staff for a wonderful tour and insight into working in the heritage sector.