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Hugo Rifkind

Ed Miliband could be the first atheist Jewish prime minister from Primrose Hill

16 April 2014

1:00 PM

16 April 2014

1:00 PM

Last weekend, in a small New Jersey suburb, I found myself in a liquor store. Never been anywhere like it. The walls were lined with single malts of rare and impressive varieties, and the clientele both knew their whisky and spoke of little else. Yet they were all, also, to a man (and they were all men) ultra-orthodox Jews.

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