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Edinburgh Fringe

25 must-see Jewish shows at Edinburgh Fringe 2025

This year’s festival boasts an abundant lineup of Jewish talent – here are the JC’s top picks

By Eliana Jordan

8 min read

'The Marriage of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein', written and directed by Edward Einhorn, is one of the exciting Jewish plays set to be performed at the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. (Photo: Richard Termine)

Adam Brody and Kristen Bell both received Emmy nominations for the uber Jewish Netflix series 'Nobody Wants This'. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Netflix)

Emmys 2025: Jewish stars and series dominate comedy nominations

By Eliana Jordan

2 min read

Drugs

Could psychedelics offer a key to solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

By Eliana Jordan

7 min read

Travel

Time stands still in these woodland hills

By Rachel Coussins

4 min read

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An anti-Israel rally in Dublin last month

Ireland

‘I’m half-Jewish and half-Irish – this is how I see the Ireland of today’

By David Cohen

6 min read

Alasdair Buch, Lisa-Anne Wood and Sebastien Torkia on stage in That Bastard, Puccini! (Photo: David Monteith-Hodge)

Theatre

That Bastard, Puccini! review: ‘grips from start to finish’★★★★★

James Inverne takes a forgotten piece of operatic history and turns it into an engrossing piece of theatre. You’ll love it even if you know nowt about Puccini

By Stephen Pollard

2 min read

music

Saul Milton: ‘What better way to be proud to be Jewish but to wear big chais with diamonds’

The drum ‘n’ bass artist talks to Elisa Bray about the enduring success of Chase and Status

By Elisa Bray

5 min read

Saul Milton of Chase and Status wearing his diamond chai at the BRIT Awards

Netflix

Meet the Schwoopers, the Jewish family at the heart of Netflix’s next big animated comedy

From the Jewish creator of ‘BoJack Horseman’, new series ‘Long Story Short’ will have all-star cast of Jewish voice actors including Abbi Jacobson and Paul Reiser

By Eliana Jordan

1 min read

Meet the Schwoopers: (L to R) Lisa Edelstein as Naomi Schwartz, Ben Feldman as Avi Schwooper, Max Greenfield as Yoshi Schwooper, Abbi Jacobson as Shira Schwooper and Paul Reiser as Elliot Cooper in the upcoming Netflix series 'Long Story Short'. (Photo: COURTESY OF NETFLIX © 2025)

Theatre

Noughts & Crosses review: ‘Star-crossed love story shines through in joyless production’ ★★

The extraordinary vision of Marjorie Blackman’s classic race story struggles to take flight in this lacklustre theatre adaptation

By John Nathan

1 min read

Alec Boaden as Jude and Chanel Waddock as Lynette in Noughts & Crosses. (Photo: Manuel Harlan)

Lifestyle

Tel Aviv food

Eight must-try restaurants to look out for in Tel Aviv in 2025

Newly opened (or relocated) this year these are the cream of Tel Aviv’s crop

By Victoria Prever

4 min read

Jewish theatre

The drama society creating a non-political space for Jewish artists to thrive

Actor Natan Paul-Collis started the Jewish Dramatic Association of London as a safe space for Jewish writers, directors and performers – and he’s just getting started

By Eliana Jordan

2 min read

Members of the Jewish Dramatic Association of London (JDAL), a Jewish theatre group founded by actor Natan Paul-Collis, rehearse at the award-winning London theatre Upstairs at the Gatehouse in Highgate. The group will perform their third showcase on 27 July. (Photo: Sam Becker)

Culture

Jewish TV, film and music to see this summer, from Alanis Morissette to The Fantastic Four

Glastonbury is over, but there’s a treasure trove of culture ahead

By Elisa Bray

5 min read

Canadian singer Alanis Morissette performs on stage on the first day of the Estereo Picnic music festival at Simon Bolivar park in Bogota on March 27, 2025. (Photo by Alejandro Gonzalez / AFP) (Photo by ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Books

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

By Lianne Kolirin

1 min read

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

Theatre

West End venue drops queer Jewish musical after anti-Israel backlash

Phoenix Arts Club cancels Israeli actor’s satirical show after online criticism

By Jane Prinsley

5 min read

musical

Evita review: ‘Rachel Zegler’s star quality shines’ ★★★★★

Every Evita is defined by its Eva and the clarity, accuracy and power of this one’s voice is astonishing

By John Nathan

2 min read

Rachel Zegler as Eva Peron and James Olivas as Juan Peron in Evita (Photo: Marc Brenner)

Theatre

Intimate Apparel review: ‘Beautifully performed revival’ ★★★

The suppressed passion between black seamstress Esther and immigrant Jew Mr Marks makes this plot feel freshly hatched

By John Nathan

2 min read

Samira Wiley and Nicola Hughes in Intimate Apparel (Photo: Helen Murray)

Film

28 Years Later review: ‘flips our national psychology on its head’ ★★★★

In this horror movie, the British Isles is infected and full of zombies – and the sea that surrounds us no longer protects us from those on the continent, it protects them from us

By John Nathan

1 min read

Run for your life: Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Alfie Williams

Film & TV

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Megan Stalter as Jessica in the new Netflix series 'Too Much', written by Lena Dunham. (Photo: Ana Blumenkron/Netflix)

Too Much review: new Lena Dunham series is a soppy, sweet love letter to London ★★★★

By Eliana Jordan

3 min read

Superman review: ‘You don’t get more Jewish’ ★★★★★

The superhero’s Yiddishe soul forged by the experience of being an immigrant is on full display in this stirring reboot

By John Nathan

2 min read

How Jewish is Lena Dunham?

The writer and star of HBO’s ‘Girls’ is releasing her latest semi-autobiographical comedy series, this time with a Jewish protagonist

By Eliana Jordan

3 min read

Hot Milk review: ‘delicately adapted for the screen’ ★★★

In her directorial debut, Rebecca Lenkiewicz establishes the characters of Deborah Levy’s 2026 Booker-nominated novel with care and admirable economy

By John Nathan

1 min read

Travel

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Feline watchful: a cat perches on the on Kasbah of Agadir Oufella, the fortress built in 1572 to protect Agadir

Travel

All about amazing Agadir

By Leah Pennisi-Glaser

4 min read

Move over Napa – it’s all about Santa Barbara

The ‘American Riviera’, with its stunning vistas and delectable local wines, might just be the country’s best spot for viticulture

By Anna Pointer

5 min read

A trip to Tuscany’s ‘Little Jerusalem’

Pitigliano offers a trip into history – and an excuse to linger among south-west Tuscany’s hidden charms

By Beverley Byrne

4 min read

Want to feed your Jewish soul? Then come to Safed

You don’t leave this northern Israeli city with selfies, you leave with questions. Big ones

By Josh Kaplan

1 min read

Books

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The Age of Hitler review: What's next for the West? And will it be good for the Jews?

By David Bennun

2 min read

Marseille 1940 by Uwe Wittstock: one hack’s mission to save Jewish intelligentsia from the Nazis

This is a gripping account of young and unassuming American journalist Varian Fry’s mission to save the literary and artistic greats of his day

By Amanda Hopkinson

2 min read

The JC summer 2025 children’s reading list

From royal rescue missions to understanding the liminal ritual of havdalah, here are the season’s four best new books for toddlers, teens and those in between

By Angela Kiverstein

1 min read

The Third Reich of Dreams review: ‘surreal testimonies to a nightmarish reality’

This is a fascinating piece of work about people’s dreams in Nazi Germany

By Alun David

2 min read

Music

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Chai note: Ilona Domnich (Photo: Omer Barr)

Opera

The opera singer who won’t be silenced on Israel

By Jonathan Sacerdoti

7 min read

The young Israeli giving the shofar a new voice

Bar Zemach, the first known musician to play the shofar chromatically, on how he was inspired and driven by the vision of his grandfather

By Eliana Jordan

3 min read

Die Walküre at the Royal Opera House: ‘Wagner played to perfection’

Australian Jewish director Barrie Kosky whips up a perfect storm of brilliance in what is arguably the greatest opera ever written

By Stephen Pollard

2 min read

How Jew-hate is becoming the norm in the music industry

Antisemitism in the music business might be in the news thanks to Kneecap, but the truth is the Irish band’s politics are simply emblematic of a growing problem. Nicole Lampert reports

By Nicole Lampert

7 min read