Eliana Jordan

Junior Feature Writer

Eliana Jordan is a feature writer for the Jewish Chronicle. You can reach her at ejordan@thejc.com.

Latest from Eliana Jordan

Edinburgh Fringe

Accordion Ryan’s Pop Bangers review: High-octane musical comedy like nothing you’ve ever seen before ★★★★

If pop music, klezmer, and Weird Al had a baby, it would be this Edinburgh Fringe show

2 min read

Ryan Simpson, otherwise known as Accordion Ryan, performs his wacky and wonderful show at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival. (Photo: Tim Hughes)

EDINBURGH,SCOTLAND - AUGUST 02: Edinburgh Festival Fringe entertainers perform on the Royal Mile on August 02, 2024 in Edinburgh, Scotland. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

In the surreal world of Jewish performers at Edinburgh Fringe, risk is paying off

4 min read

Marcus Freed in his one-man autobiographical show 'Marcus is Alive'. (Photo: Matt Kamimura)

Marcus is Alive review: A balm for anyone who’s ever asked ‘Why me?’ ★★★★

2 min read

Marnina and Micah are the crooning couple behind the Edinburgh Fringe musical comedy "Honey Honey Moon Moon." (Photo: Jack Morris)

Honey Honey Moon Moon review: Jewish newlywed couple make pitch-perfect duo in this charming musical comedy ★★★★

1 min read

Arab-Israeli actor Yousef Sweid brings story of life ‘in between’ to debut Fringe show – just don’t let the title scare you

In ‘Between the River and the Sea’, renowned Israeli actor Sweid reflects on a life lived between Jewish and Arab, Israeli and Palestinian worlds – and being a father to Jewish children

4 min read

August 11, 2025 12:09

Arab-Israeli Yousef Sweid in his Edinburgh Fringe show 'Between the River and the Sea'. (Photo: Ute Langkafel)

The Marriage of Alice B Toklas by Gertrude Stein review: A riveting, rip-roaring comedy with a Jewish heart ★★★★★

This French farce about the lesbian Jewish modernist couple is full of absurdity, profundity and make-believe – an unmissable delight

2 min read

August 11, 2025 11:54

Alyssa Simon, left, and Barsha as Alice B Toklas and Gertrude Stein in the play 'The Marriage of Alice B Toklas by Gertrude Stein', a must-see show at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival. (Photo: Edward Einhorn)

Niusia review: A granddaughter’s heartfelt exploration of Holocaust legacy ★★★

Beth Paterson deals with Jewish identity and the generational impact of trauma in her one-woman show at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival

1 min read

August 8, 2025 16:28

Niusia review: A granddaughter’s heartfelt exploration of Holocaust legacy ★★★

Police called as Palestine protesters disrupt John Swinney Fringe event

Despite the First Minister’s record of Gaza advocacy, demonstrators angrily called on him to brand the crisis a ‘genocide’

2 min read

August 4, 2025 13:51

First Minister John Swinney sat quietly as pro-Palestine protesters interrupted the Edinburgh Fringe event where he was speaking (Photo: X)

She dreaded sitting next to a Chasidic woman – until the conversation that changed everything

A play coming to Edinburgh Fringe explores tensions between secular and Orthodox women through a conversation set 30,000 feet above ground

2 min read

August 1, 2025 08:49

Actresses Rachel Ravel, Madeline Rose Parks and Marissa Ruben pose in costume for Gili Malinsky's play 'Will You Be Praying The Entire Flight?' which will be staged at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival from 11-16 August, 2025.

Lord Alliance, business leader and philanthropist dies aged 93

David Alliance modernised the British cotton industry, helped save thousands of Ethiopian Jews from persecution and was a generous philanthropist

2 min read

July 30, 2025 14:09

Comedian David Rose grapples with the discovery of a famous Jewish ancestor – and his controversial legacy – in Fringe debut

The Australian stand-up shares the story of his great-grandfather Julian Rose in ‘Our Hebrew Friend’, a comedy that attempts to answer, how Jewish is Jewish enough?

3 min read

July 29, 2025 14:26

Australian comedian David Rose is carrying forward a family legacy with his upcoming Edinburgh Fringe debut "Our Hebrew Friend." (Photo: David Rose)

Tom Lehrer, mathematician, songwriter and satirist, dies at 97

Lehrer’s sharp, pithy songs satirised contemporary culture and gripped audiences around the world, but he never wavered from his love for mathematics

2 min read

July 29, 2025 11:25

American satirical singer-songwriter, Tom Lehrer, pictured cutting a cake in the shape of a woman's hand backstage at the Palace Theatre in London on 13 May, 1959, has passed away at the age of 97. (Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Twenty-one per cent of young Britons say Israel does not have right to exist

The latest Sunday Times Poll of British attitudes towards Israel, immigration and geopolitics reveals growing sympathy for Palestine

2 min read

July 27, 2025 11:58

The latest Sunday Times Poll revealed that British sympathy for Palestine in its conflict with Israel is on the rise. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS/AFP via Getty Images)

Palestinian recognition would reward terrorism, Israeli ambassador tells Starmer

Israeli ambassador to the UK and Board of Deputies president among those insisting British PM resist following French recognition of Palestinian state

1 min read

July 27, 2025 09:51

Prime Minister Keir Starmer is under pressure by fellow Labour party members to recognise Palestinian statehood after French President Macron made the move to do so earlier this week. (Photo by Kin Cheung - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

‘Chicken Soup Dates’: ‘A raunchy sex seminar from an ‘Orthodox’ couple comes to Soho Theatre

Comedians Candy Gigi and Tom Joseph of Buttmitzvah fame, play a dysfunctional Jewish couple in this matchmaking comedy, replete with free chicken soup on tap

2 min read

July 23, 2025 08:19

Comedians Tom Joseph and Candy Gigi are Howard and Michelle Fissure, a deranged Orthodox married couple, in their upcoming comedy show 'Chicken Soup Dates.'

US teachers’ union rejects proposal to cut ties with ADL

The executive committee of the largest teachers’ union in the US shot down a motion to ban the ADL over its perceived Israel bias

2 min read

July 22, 2025 10:34

The National Education Association (NEA) rejected a proposal to cut ties with the Anti-Defamation League over the weekend. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for National Education Association)

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Eliana Jordan

Latest from Eliana Jordan

Accordion Ryan’s Pop Bangers review: High-octane musical comedy like nothing you’ve ever seen before ★★★★

In the surreal world of Jewish performers at Edinburgh Fringe, risk is paying off

Marcus is Alive review: A balm for anyone who’s ever asked ‘Why me?’ ★★★★

Honey Honey Moon Moon review: Jewish newlywed couple make pitch-perfect duo in this charming musical comedy ★★★★

More from Eliana Jordan

Arab-Israeli actor Yousef Sweid brings story of life ‘in between’ to debut Fringe show – just don’t let the title scare you

The Marriage of Alice B Toklas by Gertrude Stein review: A riveting, rip-roaring comedy with a Jewish heart ★★★★★

Niusia review: A granddaughter’s heartfelt exploration of Holocaust legacy ★★★

Police called as Palestine protesters disrupt John Swinney Fringe event

She dreaded sitting next to a Chasidic woman – until the conversation that changed everything

Lord Alliance, business leader and philanthropist dies aged 93

Comedian David Rose grapples with the discovery of a famous Jewish ancestor – and his controversial legacy – in Fringe debut

Tom Lehrer, mathematician, songwriter and satirist, dies at 97

Twenty-one per cent of young Britons say Israel does not have right to exist

Palestinian recognition would reward terrorism, Israeli ambassador tells Starmer

‘Chicken Soup Dates’: ‘A raunchy sex seminar from an ‘Orthodox’ couple comes to Soho Theatre

US teachers’ union rejects proposal to cut ties with ADL