Karen Glaser

Following in the paw prints of Paddington in Peru

This month the marmalade-loving bear whose story was inspired by the Kindertransport hits the big screen in Peru. I make the same journey

The JC blind date: ‘I think she thought I was a show-off’

For the first of a new monthly column, our two hopeful singletons had dinner at Israeli chef Eyal Shani’s swanky restaurant Lilienblum in Shoreditch

This Yom Kippur will be my dad’s first ever in shul

Despite being entirely secular, October 7 has made him more at ease in the company of Jews

Nobody Wants This: well, ain’t that the truth

The Netflix hit does a disastrous disservice to Jewish and non-Jewish women alike. It is nothing short of the Madonna-whore complex updated for our age

A nation’s art in a time of war: How Israel’s artists responded to October 7

This past year has seen an outpouring of creativity from Israeli artists who have used their talents as an outlet for trauma and to battle Jew-hate

Why is the National Theatre staging a play with antisemitic tropes on October 7?

Putting on the Lehman Trilogy while the rest of us are marking Oct 7 shows the National Threatre doesn't care about Jews

This Father’s Day, let’s hear it for patrilineal Jews

Forget the idea that you’re only a Jew if your mother is Jewish. Let’s go back to the Bible

JC columnist Naomi Greenaway on press award shortlist

‘I am grateful to have been in the unique position to have connected with Jewish women at the toughest of times’, she says

Amy’s friends: ‘She was humble’

Why are the Jews overlooking their natural allies?

While our interfaith efforts focus on Muslims, we neglect more friendly communities

What fuels antisemitism? A lot is sheer envy

The Irish basketball players’ snub to their Israeli opponents smacks of jealousy

Fiction review of the year

Our critics’ favourite novels, from a sweetly satirical rom-com to a study in middle-class complicity in the Third Reich