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At peace with myself at last

His family rejected him because he was gay. But when a film was made about Saar Maoz, it helped him confront the past.

Berlin's tale of hate that shocked the world

Why the story of a schoolboy who suffered antisemitic bullying took European press by storm

Jewish artists on the edge

Questions of gender and sexuality in the work of Jewish artists emerge in two major art exhibitions.

Canadian hate statistics should be taken with a pinch of salt

A swastika scrawled in the snow by a teenager should not be counted as a hate crime

Jewniversity Corner: Martha Nussbaum

Martha Nussbaum is a prolific academic who writes about emotions and ethics.

Letters, 6th April

Peter Gerner, Mr M Hilder, David Sherman, Malvyn A Benjamin, Professor Roland Littlewood, Agnes Kory, Ruth Keller, Jewish Voice for Labour, Lady Daniela Pears, Robert Dulin, Martin Newman and Colonel M Newman, share their views with JC readers

Former Israeli chief rabbi calls Syria conflict a ‘holocaust’

‘Come and see reality of the occupation’

Interview with Hagai El-Ad, chief executive of B’Tselem

The man leading the battle to keep Russia out of the White House

Robert Philpot looks at the man who's investigating Russian meddling in last year’s US presidential election

Terrorists’ lethal weapon: fear

Being confident of our own identity as Jews should always be something we feel proud to do, writes Rabbi Yoni Birnbaum

More nights like this, please

Seder has somehow become the canvas on which we can paint our own picture of our Exodus, writes Stephen Rosenthal

The value of names

Ad agency Grey London is taking on a temporary new name, to make a point about diversity and honour its Jewish founders.

The empathy of Yevtushenko

Babi Yar was not a disappearance into a far-off and imaginable “resettlement camp” but one of the biggest of myriad mass-murders carried out close to large conurbations in almost full view of local populations

Was Jack the Ripper really a hate-spreading antisemite?

The author of a new book claims the killer was George Hutchinson, a local labourer, and that his motive was to mislead the public by framing the murders as “Jewish ritual killings”.

Our day trip to a living nightmare

“It is really important you don’t walk around the camp on your own if you are a woman,” warns Clare Moseley,

A night to ask difficult questions

Leaders from the Catholic, Muslim, and Anglican faiths were invited to the home of Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner to learn about Passover