Travel maven McClaren
picked his pillow off the floor one night after accidentally throwing it across the room which felt “kind of mean”, he said. His mother encouraged him to write down his thoughts.
In attending Clifton, which once had a Jewish house, Jack is following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather.
His illustrator, Emma Hoffberg, who was chosen by the publishers, is Jewish, too, and a member of Guildford Synagogue.
IF former England boss Steve McClaren can’t find another job in football, there could be an opening selling holidays in Israel.
The 56-year-old, who has just returned from a spell as assistant coach at Maccabi Tel Aviv, gushed over the country’s sites in The Times. “I got out there and it was 30°C. Tel Aviv was beautiful. Modern, but with history, too. Mediterranean. Multicultural, fantastic restaurants, great beach”.
But the experience went even deeper. Listing the holy places he visited, he said: “It’s got that feeling of spirituality, whatever your beliefs.”
As he said: “I could be an ambassador for the Israeli Tourist
Board”. Millionaire’s Ex-Wives Club about marital collapses among the wealthy. Not only did it feature Lisa Tchenguiz (above), who divorced from Vivian Imerman — they had married at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue — but several leading divorce lawyers were also interviewed in the programme.
They included Davina Katz, head of family law at Schillings; one-time Portsmouth Synagogue barmitzvah boy, Julian Lipson, from Withers; and former King David Liverpool pupil Jeremy Levison from Levison Meltzer Pigott.