The last time we sat down to Seder so early in the year, the country had not long before celebrated a diamond jubilee and the community was deep in discussion about international antisemitism and the views of a pope.

One of the best-known photographers of the Jewish community, Peter Fisher, died this week, aged 84. Born in Budapest into a traditional, rather than observant, Jewish family, Peter and his brother George were profoundly musical. George became a conductor, whose first wife was the singer Lucia Popp.

As part of the Arsenal for Everyone initiative celebrating diversity, the club is offering JC readers the chance to win a pair of tickets for Wednesday's Champions League tie with Schalke.

To enter, answer the following question: Name Arsenal's summer signing from Montpellier?

It's a strange piece of JC history: a model lifeboat, presented in memory of one-time JC editor Michael Henry, is being auctioned in London next week by Charles Miller Ltd.

Mr Henry, who had started a fund for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, died aged 45 in 1875, after a fire in his office.

The JC, in association with the Richard Young Gallery, is launching its first Young Photographers Competition, aimed at people aged 30 and under.

Aspirant photographers, amateur or professional, are invited to submit a picture on the theme of modern Jewish Britain.

I have been married to the JC for longer than to my wife, Beryl. But after almost 50 years, it is time to pass the baton over.

The long-lost relatives of a man stabbed to death 92 years ago have been reunited after a chance sighting of an advert on the JC's weekly email newsletter.

The surprising reunion has its origin in the 1919 murder of garment factory foreman Solomon Franks, by a Russian Jewish worker who had been traumatised in the battlefields of the First World War.