More than 100 people from the UK take part in a Jewish Agency ID card ceremony at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

They are just some of the 1000 new immigrants from countries around the world who arrived in Israel this week.

Photos: Brian Hendler

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Photos by Steve Riding

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Ten years in pictures — a period defined by attacks, the world economy … and the onward march of celebrity culture.

This has been a decade which, more than any other, has been defined by the suicide bomber, since that fateful day in September 2001 when Al Qaeda terrorists crashed airliners into the Twin Towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington.

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Criminals, drunks, murder victims… a Jewish immigrant called Usher Fellig photographed them all — and turned them into works of art.

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They say that if you can remember the 60s then you weren’t really there. It was the decade which represented a huge flowering of talent — artistic, musical, political and social.

Now the National Portrait Gallery has opened a major new exhibition of photographs of the most iconic musicians of the time — and many of the “recording angels”, the photographers, were Jewish.

Photographer Gered Mankowitz is heavily represented in the show, in which there are 150 photographs, 100 of which are exhibited for the first time.

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At first sight, Frederic Aranda and Chasidic Jewry seem worlds apart. One is rooted in tradition, Orthodoxy and halachah, while the other is a young, award-winning fashion photographer who spends his time working with models and stylists.

Yet, because of a chance experience at university, Aranda has been able to gain access to Charedi communities around the world to produce a collection of revealing images of Orthodox life.

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