Eliana Jordan

A Jewish love story with art well worth a longer look

The V&A is presenting a deeper dive into 20th-century collectors the Gilberts, writes Eliana Jordan

Billy Steinberg, visionary lyricist behind pop hits Like A Virgin and So Emotional, dies at 75

The Jewish songwriter’s collaboration with musician Tom Kelly led to more than 150 songs between 1981 and 1991

Jenny Lipman, ‘life-changing' acting tutor to the stars, dies at 77

Lipman directed the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art for 20 years, teaching famous actors including Michael Fassbender, Tom Hardy and Sam Claflin

Antizionist group plans protest over Buchenwald memorial’s ban on keffiyahs

The Germany-based activists are preparing to demonstrate on the anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp

Israel pulls its bobsleigh team after fake illness report to officials

One athlete falsely claimed to be unwell to allow a substitute to compete to become the Jewish state’s first-ever Druze Olympian

Iranian students hold first large anti-regime rallies since crackdown

Basij officers reportedly faced off against protestors commemorating the thousands of people killed during last month's demonstrations

Why I have stopped posting on social media

Instagram used to be a straightforward echo chamber for me. Then October 7 happened and I got scared of the political judgment

Peter Kien stowed his art in a suitcase before the Nazis murdered him – now it’s finally in safe hands

The Wiener Library has just acquired 681 drawings, poems and letters by Kien, whose work has been recovered after an 80-year journey

One rabbi’s search for the boys who survived an Auschwitz gas chamber

Rabbi Naftali Schiff’s 20-year mission to track down the 51 boys who left Crematorium 5 alive has resulted in a book and film

New wines, historic roots: the Israeli vineyard inspired by the pioneer years

Serial high tech entrepreneur Elie Wurtman is helping define Israeli wine with a little help from regional history – and a gaggle of agriculturally inclined teens

Translation prize awarded to a British-Israeli

Haim could become first all-female band to win rock album prize at Grammys

The Jewish sisters are also the first all-female band to receive a nomination for the award with their album I Quit