Books

Components of sadness

The Rebbe’s Leadership Style

In an extract from his new biography, Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz reveals how the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson put his ideas into practice

Manual, aesthetic and heartfelt

We review a trio of recent verse collections

Review: Happy Are The Happy

How we don't say what we are thinking

Interview: Claire Hajaj

We meet a writer who stands on both sides of the Mid-East conflict

British Jewry since Emancipation

Lively thrusts of an 'impartially jaundiced' historian