Lianne Kolirin

The Jewish renaissance of Margate

Lianne Kolirin meets the Yiddishe artists who have set up home in the English coastal town dubbed Hackney-on-Sea

Holocaust Memorial Day: One man’s mission to capture the faces of survivors for eternity

Portrait photographer John Balsom was accustomed to snapping celebrities – until, as Lianne Kolirin writes, he developed a devotion to taking pictures of those who lived through the Holocaust

‘Portraying October 7 was my privilege’ says Israeli actor Rotem Sela, star of Red Alert

In the Paramount+ drama Sela plays a mother who was kidnapped from her kibbutz home

‘I always felt Jewish – I was thrilled to find out I actually am’: Meet the Jews who are finding their way home to Jewishness

With their Jewish roots hidden for generations, these are the people rediscovering – and embracing – their Jewish identities in adulthood

‘I started seeing the events of October 7 in my dreams’: Indirect exposure to trauma linked to PTSD in Israeli journalists and therapists

A study by professors at Israel’s Bar-Ilan University reveals that media and psychology professionals suffered ‘vicarious trauma’ after the massacres

Why I have finally finished the novel my late friend and I were writing together

Ivor Baddiel on the new sci-fi thriller he began with children’s author Jonny Zucker

The Scrapbook by Heather Clark review: ‘I wanted to know what his grandfather had done in the war’

This is a beautiful and powerful debut novel examining intergenerational trauma, inherited guilt and all-consuming love

Meet the Jewish Horse Whisperer of swimming

Steven Shaw is changing lives in Golders Green by mixing his pool skills with his knowledge of the Alexander Technique

Meet the non-Jewish Brits who stand shoulder to shoulder with us

Since October 7 many in the community have felt abandoned by wider British society, but also we have some steadfast and very vocal allies

The comedy scene where the joke’s on Jew-hate

In Tel Aviv, a growing number of comics are battling antisemitism through humour – and telling the gags in English

The Israeli beauty influencer fighting to free the hostages

Ashley Waxman Bakshi used her social media skills to become a powerful voice for the hostages – including her own cousin

How Aleeza Ben Shalom is going to solve the global matchmaking crisis