Larry DavidLarry David screenplay for film that was long-running gag on Seinfeld surfaces at lastLeaked draft of Prognosis: Negative was written in 1983 by Curb Your Enthusiasm starBy Eliana Jordan2 min read
FoodMeet the anchovy evangelist: the Jewish foodie championing the ‘little fish with the big flavour’Sudi Pigott is on a mission to convert the masses to the joys of anchovies. Her new book on the subject certainly makes compelling reading.4 min read
FoodMove over Ottolenghi, there’s a new flavour genius on the chopping blockFormer Bubala chef, Helen Graham, tells us about her joyfully Jewish debut cookbook CentrepieceBy Siam Goorwich4 min read
IranInside Iran, the regime is toasting ‘triumph’ against the USBut for many ordinary Iranians, the collapse of talks prompted a different kind of hope – that Trump may return to finish off the IRGCBy Ali Hamedani3 min read
Jewish artHomage to hope by refugee from Nazis back in view after 40 yearsThe avant-garde painter’s modernist piece ‘The Peasant and his Wife’ is due to go up for auction after a brief public tourBy Eliana Jordan2 min read
My unorthodox lifeHow Miriam Haart’s life took another Unorthodox turn at a Tel Aviv AI startupThe 26-year-old reality TV star on her tech firm ActionAI, being queer in Israel, and rediscovering her Jewish identityBy Eliana Jordan6 min read
Russia Ukraine WarVisiting the Kyiv synagogue where Jewish life continues under fireThe rabbi of the Ukrainian capital’s Brodsky Synagogue spends half the year on the frontline, encouraging troopsBy Jake Wallis Simons5 min read
JudaismThe rabbi who talks to millions of Arabs about Judaism and IsraelRabbi Elhanan Miller’s videos have been viewed 7.8 million times, mostly in the Arab worldBy Eliana Jordan5 min read
Winter OlympicsFrom obese yeshivah student to Slider-Man – the remarkable run of Israel’s Olympic bobsleigh pilotIs bobsleighng permitted on Shabbat? Yes it is says this Orthodox athleteBy Jane Prinsley6 min read
ArtPeter Kien stowed his art in a suitcase before the Nazis murdered him – now it’s finally in safe handsThe Wiener Library has just acquired 681 drawings, poems and letters by Kien, whose work has been recovered after an 80-year journeyBy Eliana Jordan5 min read
Africa‘The goal is to not exist’: Inside the Israeli NGO tackling preventable disease in Africa‘Usually within five years... we are able to reduce the disease prevalence by almost 90 per cent,’ NALA’s CEO, Michal Bruck, told the JCBy Jamie Shapiro4 min read
Peace Process‘You can’t just wait for stability’: the Israeli working with Iranians and Qataris to build a start-up regionIsraeli peace builder tells the JC about his initiative to help build the future of the Middle East and North AfricaBy Jane Prinsley5 min read
ShowbizFrom stage to screen, the world now knows – the show must and will go on for proudly Jewish stars2025 was a year of glittering prizes – but also when big names found the courage to speak out in defiance of the cancel brigadeBy Nicole Lampert5 min read
Limmud 2025What does it mean to be a Limmudnik?A place where Jews of all stripes can gather to listen to one anotherBy Jane Prinsley5 min read
Sydney terror attackAt a Chabad menorah lighting on a chilly London evening, our hearts were close to SydneyJews defied heartbreak and fear at one of many events across Britain to celebrate ChanukahBy Ben Felsenburg2 min read
Sydney terror attackHow to talk to your children about the Sydney terror attack, according to mental health expertsA psychologist, family therapist and two rabbis give their tips on supporting your children in the wake of the attack and how to celebrate Chanukah this yearBy Elisa Bray4 min read
Hostages‘Resilience is in the Jewish people’s DNA’: The man helping Israel’s freed hostages healThe head of Israel’s Hostage Debrief Team met 168 hostages ‘who went through hell and came back’ yet, he says, ‘not one of them said they would rather have died’By Jane Prinsley6 min read
Gaza‘October 7 changed me as a doctor and also as a person’An Israeli foot-and-ankle surgeon from the Rabin Medical Center who has been on the front line every day since the terror attack tells Elisa Bray about the day that upended everythingBy Elisa Bray4 min read
October 7 anniversary‘I met people in Gaza who hate Hamas and want the war to end’Women in Gaza cried out for Hamas to be killed, according to a commander in the search unitBy Jane Prinsley5 min read
October 7 anniversary‘The trauma will live on with us forever’: British relatives of October 7 victims on their two years of lossRelatives of loved ones murdered by Hamas and hostages still held captive in Gaza tell Elisa Bray their agonising storiesBy Elisa Bray6 min read
Music‘It’s f***ing epic’: Azealia Banks on touring Israel and why she loves Zionism and Jews‘Everyone has been on Israel’s d*** and talking s*** about Jews all summer, but nobody will talk to Jewish people’By Jane Prinsley4 min read
PodcastsFormer JC editor Jake Wallis Simons launches podcast intended as ‘antidote to Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell’The show will be ‘the antithesis of click-bait rage merchants seeking social media engagement’By Jane Prinsley3 min read
Jewish weddings‘My non-Jewish wife didn’t ‘get’ me but my new Jewish one does’Two newlyweds tell of their deep joy at marrying another Jew for the first time in middle age and of their first Rosh Hashanah as husband and wifeBy Jeremy Kareken and Miranda Levy5 min read
