Books The 2025 Wingate Prize longlist is announcedThe shortlist will be announced next month and the winner in FebruaryBy Karen Glaser4 min read
BooksThey Were Good Germans Once review: ‘the trials of the yekke’This is a welcome memoir on the German Jews who were ashamed of being JewishBy Mark Glanville1 min read
Books Why Not Let the Leaning Tower Collapse review: ‘big questions on history and morality’Daniel Snowman is an engaging historian who brings a wide range of subjects to life in this new book of essaysBy David Herman2 min read
Books Why the English country house was also often JewishThe book I have co-edited confronts uncomfortable ideas about Jewish money, power and antisemitism head onBy Abigail Green4 min read
FilmThe enduring appeal of Nora Ephron, and the golden age of rom-comsA new book about the Jewish writer and director’s filmography brings nostalgia for the era of When Harry Met Sally style rom-comsBy Eliana Jordan3 min read
Books The Viennese-born snapper who recorded social injustice in BritainEdith Tudor Hart was an immensely talented documentary photographer whose work deserves to be better known. This biography-in-the-round will helpBy Amanda Hopkinson2 min read
Books The Empusium review: ‘hooch and misogyny at a gentlemen’s guesthouse’Booker and Nobel Prize-winner Olga Tokarcuk’s latest work falls slightly short of her previous literary achievementsBy Amanda Hopkinson2 min read
BooksThe Thinking Heart review: ‘David Grossman’s dream for Israel omits certain details’The leading Israeli novelist’s new book fails to ask tough questions about the Jewish state’s implacable enemiesBy David Herman2 min read
Children's booksJC2’s guide to the best new books for toddlers, teens and those inbetweenFrom a kippah-wearing blue furry monster to the war efforts of courageous Jewish siblings, we select the most exciting fiction for kidsBy Angela Kiverstein1 min read
FilmThe Apprentice review: ‘What would Melania Trump say?’The Trump portrayed here is no monster but it is a portrait of a hustler who is still hustlingBy John Nathan1 min read
Books By Any Other Name review: ‘Shakespeare’s Marrano sister’In bestselling Jodi Picoult’s latest book some of the Bard’s most famous works were written by a Jewish woman who observes Friday night and Yom Kippur and sits a version of shiva when her friend diesBy Jennifer Lipman2 min read
ObituaryLore Segal: ‘her subject was her life’The Pulitzer-nominated novelist and short story writer who has died aged 96 had a ‘uniquely sharp mind’By Jennifer Lipman1 min read
Books The feted scholar who fears for Israel’s soulEven if you don’t fully agree with his views, Holocaust survivor Saul Friedländer’s centrality to Israeli history makes his analysis of the country vitalBy Felix Pope2 min read
Books‘My fiction shows the truth of what’s going on in northern Israel’Sarah Sultoon on how her experience reporting on Hezbollah and Lebanon steered her approach to writing her novel DirtBy Natalie Goldwater3 min read
Books ‘I’ve created a Jewish version of Sherlock Holmes’Aron Goldin’s first book thrusts his intrepid East End protagonist on the trial of a serial killer in the intriguing setting of a 19th-century ConstantinopleBy Jennifer Lipman4 min read
Books The Gates of Gaza review: ‘why Israel is where it is’This personal and very painful book should disabuse anyone of the notion that there are easy answers for the Jewish stateBy Jennifer Lipman2 min read
