Ben Felsenburg

Saturday Night Live UK review: ‘It’s hard to judge the quality of the performers when the material is this bad’ ★

Even at the beginning, SNL was very hit and miss. The inaugural episode of the transatlantic spin-off is just…a miss

The Claudia Winkleman Show review: ‘has the sense of a Friday night fixture’ ★★★

It was a shaky start to the television star’s hotly anticipated chat show, but at the end of the first episode you felt the ‘dark teal’ sofa may soon be very much part of the furniture

‘Is This Thing On?’ Review: ‘Will Arnett is a revelation’ ★★★★

In his latest role, the actor plays a middle-aged man contemplating his crumbling marriage – and a new career in stand-up

The Big Jewish Comedy Gala has the last laugh

The sell-out evening showcased the best of Jewish humour – and the best of Jewish pride

Rental Family review: Secrets, lies and life lessons in wryly touching Tokyo dramedy★★★★

At a Chabad menorah lighting on a chilly London evening, our hearts were close to Sydney

Jews defied heartbreak and fear at one of many events across Britain to celebrate Chanukah

John Irving’s latest: ‘an unapologetically Zionist heroine’

The author is to be applauded for exploring fundamental questions of Jewish identity in this era of misguided political correctness, but his manuscript needs a brutal edit

Embrace a five-star history lesson that will keep Holocaust memories alive

Desperate Journey tells the extraordinary story of Freddie Knoller’s survival with the sense of entertainment needed to reach audiences of all ages

The new Top Gun film tells a very Israeli story

The scenario portrayed in the Tom Cruise film may become a reality sooner than we think

Yeah, baby! Here’s what the real Israel is like

Media coverage bears as much relation to reality as Austin Powers does to modern Britain

What Asimov's psychohistory can teach us about our present

The Jewish-Russian author famously wrote 'Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.'

Bikes, shivah and the cycle of life

Learning to ride a bicycle at 34 taught me a lot about life