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The high-flying ballerina following in a family tradition

Skylar Brandt is principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre - her grandfather made his name as a ballet dancer after migrating to Canada from Poland

5 min read

March 23, 2023 12:54

Skylar Brandt as Kitri in Don Quixote. Photo: Rosalie O’Connor.

Don’t give us your propaganda about genocide, Mr Putin

Ukraine has indeed been the scene of mass murder — but the culprits were Stalin and then the Nazis. And Russia has not been held to account for shooting down a Malaysian plane

3 min read

February 24, 2022 08:31

Don’t give us your propaganda about genocide, Mr Putin

Books

The meaning of things: Fascinating memoir celebrates the ordinary

Richard Rabinowitz's book traces his unremarkable parents’ lives by examining the possessions that gave their existence meaning

2 min read

November 24, 2022 17:17

The meaning of things: Fascinating memoir celebrates the ordinary

Russia

UK sanctions Russian figures after British Jewish Putin critic jailed for 25 years

Vladimir Kara-Murza was a vocal critic of Russia's invasion of Ukraine

1 min read

August 1, 2023 10:56

Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza sits on a bench inside a defendants' cage during a hearing at the Basmanny court in Moscow on October 10, 2022. - Vladimir Kara-Murza was jailed in April for denouncing the Kremlin's Ukraine offensive and has been charged last week with high treason - the charges which could keep him behind bars for two decades. (Photo by NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA / AFP) (Photo by NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP via Getty Images)

Art

The art dealer who went from Rags to riches and back again, twice

Algernon Moses Marsden started life in 1847 as one of the 14 children of clothing tycoon Isaac Moses

1 min read

December 16, 2022 12:41

The art dealer who went from Rags to riches and back again, twice

Judaism books

The sages put their faith in creative argument

The Snake at the Mouth of the Cave By Moshe Sokol Maggid Books, £18.99

1 min read

July 4, 2022 11:17

The sages put their faith in creative argument

Why are far too few antisemitic hate crimes prosecuted?

Met Police and the CPS have all the right policies for tackling Jew-hate – but we need results

1 min read

February 3, 2022 11:32

London, England, UK - December 7, 2014: Westminster Magistrates' Court is a magistrates' court at 181 Marylebone Road, London. The court opened on 22 September 2011. The Chief Magistrate of England and Wales, who is the Senior District Judge of England and Wales, sits at the court, and all extradition and terrorism-related cases pass through it.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Jewish US Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg honoured with stamp

The stamp shows the judge, who died in 2020, wearing her black judge’s robe and signature white collar

1 min read

October 2, 2023 16:41

Jewish US Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg honoured with stamp

British Jews, please heed this warning from America

The pernicious ‘Critical Social Justice’ theory dominates the US and is making its way to you

3 min read

March 18, 2022 00:00

British Jews, please heed this warning from America

History

Simon Schama: We can't forget England's bloody antisemitic history

Sir Simon spoke to the JC after DNA analysis revealed that the remains of at least 17 children and adults found in a Norwich well were Jews killed in medieval massacre

2 min read

September 8, 2022 11:25