Stephen Oryszczuk

Stephen is the Jewish News' Foreign Editor

February 14, 2019, 11:07 am

Synagogues warned by Jewish Care of ‘elder abuse’

A “shocking” case of abuse of an older person that began in a shul, has prompted a Jewish charity to write to London shuls warning of its “prevalence behind front doors”

By Stephen Oryszczuk

February 8, 2019, 1:38 pm

High life in the Andes!

In the footsteps of Incas and conquistadors, Stephen Oryszcuk heads for Peru and finds some startling and exotic sights

By Stephen Oryszczuk

Natan Sharansky addressing guests at the House of Commons event

February 1, 2019, 1:09 pm

Special report: ‘They tried to erase Babi Yar, but we will remember’

Backers of a planned new Holocaust memorial and learning centre in Kiev, Ukraine, tell Jewish News about their mission to safeguard the truth

By Stephen Oryszczuk

Faiza Saigh holding a photo of her brother, Daoud Ghali Yadgar

January 24, 2019, 11:31 am

50th anniversary of Baghdad hangings: I’m scared – but I must say what happened

For half-a-century Faiza Saigh stayed silent about her brother’s hanging in Iraq, not even telling family. Now, she breaks her silence to Jewish News

By Stephen Oryszczuk

January 18, 2019, 12:21 pm

One man’s aim to honour those who helped Ukraine’s Jews in the Shoah

Stephen Oryszczuk looks into the case of Ukraine’s Greek Catholic Bishop Andrei Sheptytsky - who saved Jews in the Holocaust - but is yet to be honoured by Yad Vashem

By Stephen Oryszczuk

Children who were traumatised by the Grenfell disaster take part in a camp run in-part by Jewish activists

January 9, 2019, 12:11 pm

Exclusive: How young Jews are helping Grenfell’s children rebuild their lives

In the shadow of Grenfell Tower, children traumatised by the tragedy play in a mosque during a camp part-run by young Jews. Jewish News gets access for the first time...

By Stephen Oryszczuk

Ambassador Kariv is greeted by a guard of honour on his arrival in Ireland

December 13, 2018, 12:09 pm

Israel’s new envoy to Ireland on facing an ‘extreme’ BDS challenge

Israel’s new Ambassador to the Emerald Isle, Ophir Kariv, struggles to stay on script as he talks to Stephen Oryszczuk about his new role

By Stephen Oryszczuk

Left: Annie Altschul, born in Vienna in 1919, trained a a mental health nurse in Mill Hill and pioneers psychiatric research. Her reports are widely cited. Right: Lisbeth Hockey, expelled from Vienna , became the UKs first director of nursing research in Edinburgh

December 13, 2018, 11:41 am

Refugee nurses: The Jewish women who fled tyranny to become angels of the NHS

Stephen Oryszczuk hears tributes to a band of heroines who, despite being called ‘enemy aliens’, made a defining contribution to Britain’s health service

By Stephen Oryszczuk

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a Likud party rally in Tel Aviv

Photo by Tomer Neuberg- JINIPIX

December 3, 2018, 11:07 am

OPINION: Case 4,000 shows how precarious Israel’s free press is

Foreign editor Stephen Oryszczuk reflects on the case against Israel's prime minister, and how it reflects upon journalism in the Jewish state

By Stephen Oryszczuk

Crowds watch King George V ride through Whitechapel Road in 1935

October 25, 2018, 3:38 pm

Who Jew you think you are? Families asked to help Whitechapel history project

People with recollections of and links to London’s Whitechapel community are urged to participate in a special historical project

By Stephen Oryszczuk

October 18, 2018, 1:03 pm

Jewish News meets… Isaac Herzog: ‘I’ll bridge the diaspora divide’

New Jewish Agency chair reflects on his new role and the legacy of his father Chaim, amid a turbulent time for Israel-diaspora relations

By Stephen Oryszczuk

September 14, 2018, 1:24 pm

Making of a Mandate: Marking 100 years since the ‘liberation of Palestine’

One hundred years ago this week the British liberated Palestine from the Ottomans, laying the foundations for Israel’s birth

By Stephen Oryszczuk

Israelis demonstrate against the Nation State Law

August 10, 2018, 12:57 pm

Jewish News meets… UN Human Rights Committee chair – Yuval Shany

Stephen Oryszczuk speaks to the Israeli professor with a key position at the United Nations

By Stephen Oryszczuk

Former Minister Shahid Malik; British Transport Police’s Barry Boffy; director of TellMAMA Iman Atta and No2H8 Awards co-founder Fiyaz Mughal

August 2, 2018, 3:55 pm

Meet the Muslim and Jewish hate crime fighting duo

Jewish News sits down with Fiyaz Mughal, founder of Faith Matters and Tell MAMA, and former chief at the CST, Richard Benson

By Stephen Oryszczuk

July 26, 2018, 12:14 am

Anti-Semitic incidents fall by eight percent in first half of 2018

Latest report from the Community Security Trust shows hate incidents down on last year, despite it being the second highest ever recorded number of incidents for that period

By Stephen Oryszczuk