Life

Watch: Claudia Winkelman casts an eye over a new batch of Faithfuls in ‘Celebrity Traitors’ season two teaser

The BBC has revealed the full cast for the show, including Michael Sheen, Richard E Grant and Maya Jama

Mathieu Kassovitz on starring in De Gaulle: Résistance and how being Jewish informs his work

The rebel director returns to the heart of French cinema

Watch: Sacha Baron Cohen returns as Ali G in trailer for new film

The actor will reprise his iconic role in a new mockumentary, which will hit cinemas in October

‘I’m a barrister, my wife’s an accountant – and in our spare time, we run a music festival in the Alps’

It is the third year in a row that north-west London couple David and Denise Joseph are organising Chamonix Vallée Classics, attracting world-class classical musicians

Keeping it cool in cosmopolitan Marseille

Gaby Koppel returns to France’s vibrant port city in search of an elusive Jewish-Tunisian cafe

All aboard for a great garden party in Somerset

Israel on Trial: one judge’s search for truth

Jonathan Sacerdoti speaks to Judge Roy K. Altman about his hopeful new book, where he puts Israel in the dock

Summer reads 2026: four page-turners for kids

From intergenerational empathy to a rubber duck that becomes scuba kit, these titles will spark curiosity and family conversation

Without gay Jewish Brian Epstein we would have no Beatles

The extraordinary life of the greatest of pop managers is revealed in a new biography

Rossini Opera Festival: ‘Le Siège de Corinthe was massacred’

I was excited by this year’s inclusion of his great but less frequently performed work, but David Livermore’s production was clumsy and oafish

Boy George: I’ll sack bandmates who refuse to play pro-Israel song

The Culture Club frontman also defended the use of AI in creating the track, saying human musicians would have ‘gotten in his way’

Boy George says he’s ‘devastated’ by loss of ‘innocent lives on both sides’ of Gaza War amid backlash over new ‘pro-peace’ song

It comes after the Culture Club star pulled out of a West End performance of Jesus Christ Superstar

Checkmate! Maccabi Vale seal Chess Valley title with crushing 199-run win

They think it’s all over… it is now, thanks to Tony Platman

Exclusive: Israeli football stars Daniel Peretz and Manor Solomon on the joy and challenge of playing in England

Southampton’s goalkeeper and West Ham’s new winger talk about the new season and post-October 7 hostility

Meet the ‘Jewish Martha Stewart’ spreading Jewish joy – one whimsical project at a time

Rebekah Lowin is known for her creative take on tradition. She tells Siam Goorwich why her new book is all about ‘building a creative, joyful Jewish home’

Summer 2026 Israel eating guide: the cafes and restaurants you don’t want to miss

British-born Israeli travel and food blogger Debbie Kandel shares her insider tips for the best places to eat this summer – in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and beyond

‘Kosher catering feels like a mitzvah’: how the chef behind Shuk is elevating simchahs

Chef Mark Jankel has been a major player in London’s culinary scene for 20-plus years, but, he tells Siam Goorwich, it is his latest gastronomic project that is really bringing him nachas