children's booksYeehaw! Going west with a plate of iced bunsAngela Kiverstein asks children’s author Jodie Lancet-Grant about her latest picture bookBy Angela Kiverstein7 min read
booksSally Rooney, Naomi Klein join calls threaten to boycott literary festivals over links to IsraelWriters critical of Israel say summer festival season ‘can expect escalation and disruption’By Jane Prinsley2 min read
children's booksThis children’s author puts Israel centre stage – in a positive wayHong Kong-based children’s author Erica Lyons writes books with a very distinct Jewish flavourBy Judith Zerdin3 min read
booksLiterary sorcerer focused on the instability of lifeOur writer pays tribute to Paul Auster who died this weekBy David Herman1 min read
booksAncient barbecues and other tasty morsels of archaeologyThis brief and breezy guide to Israel’s ancient sites is an impressive achievementBy Robert Low2 min read
interviewI had PTSD after my disabled daughter’s birth… but the love for her at our shul was epicSheila Brill tells how she recovered from the terrible effect hospital staff’s incompetence had on her family and how she campaigning to improve practicesBy Hilary Freeman6 min read
booksChaim Wiezmann: ‘I am now convinced that without him there would be no state of Israel’The brilliant chemist used acetone to advance Zionism in the same way Herzl used journalism, says the co-author of a magisterial new biography of the leaderBy Stephen Pollard5 min read
booksOur Palestine Question, review: An ode to Jews who uttered difficult words in dark timesBy Colin Shindler2 min read
booksKnife by Salman Rushdie, review: What about the other victims of the new fundamentalism?This book is a deeply moving account of a devastating attack and its consequences, but it is also guilty of sins of omissionBy David Herman2 min read
booksThe Curse of Pietro Houdini, review: Riveting wartime art-heist tale plus philosophyThis is a sweeping work of storytelling bravadoBy Jenni Frazer1 min read
booksMeet the Cuban-Italian Simone de BeauvoirOur critic relishes a novel about a formidable feministBy Amanda Hopkinson2 min read
Children's booksDinosaurs at the Seder tableAngela Kiverstein’s pick of this week’s new Jewish booksBy Angela Kiverstein1 min read
booksQuestioning Belief, by Raphael Zarum – review: An essential resource that helps integrate Judaism with modernityA consummate communicator, Zarum tackles medieval thinkers with a light touchBy Harry Freedman2 min read
BooksWingate winner Elizabeth McCracken: ‘My fear is being boring in the service of accuracy’Elizabeth McCracken on the restlessly shape-shifting novel that won her the literary award for the best book to translate the idea of Jewishness to the general readerBy Claire Allfree5 min read
Books Review: Shylock’s Venice – An unimprovable bookA rigorous trawl through Venetian archives yields a work that begs for a lavish film adaptationBy Jenni Frazer3 min read
BooksHow Jewish refugees changed British childhoodThis is an extraordinary collection of essays about some extraordinary emigré artists and writersBy David Herman2 min read
