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UN-backed watchdog declares famine in Gaza City for first time

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) was recently accused of lowering its famine threshold in Gaza but has denied doing so

David Lammy summons Israeli ambassador over settlement plan

The Israeli government green-lit a proposal to build a settlement that would cut the West Bank into two pieces

Rooms for Vanishing review: ‘bogged down by its ambitious concept’

The prose is beautiful, but this novel about how the Holocaust has shaped our modern lives is sometimes so hard to follow in a linear fashion, it becomes bewildering

Parashah of the week: Re’eh

“See, this day I set before you blessing and curse: blessing, if you obey the commandments of your God Hashem that I enjoin upon you this day; and curse, if you do not obey the commandments of your God, Hashem” Deuteronomy 11:26-28

Shabbat times from August 22 to August 29

Shabbat times for the coming week

Review: the Arros QD kosher pop is deliciously glamorous

Foodie Joanna Nissim’s love for fashion inspired her first gourmet kosher pop up

Orthodox rabbis issue challenge to Israeli government over Gaza

British-linked religious figures join call for ‘moral clarity’ and criticism of Jewish extremism on West Bank

Flying to Spain might yet get safer for Jews

After two high profile incidents, pressure is being put on two Qatar-owned airlines

The kosher kitchens feeding war torn Ukraine

Inside the synagogue soup kitchens in Kharkiv and Dnipro busy feeding wartorn communities

My Name is Stramer review: ‘One of the great east European novels of our time’

Mikołaj ŁoziNski’s fifth novel is a masterpiece of foreshadowing and, surely, a future Pushkin Press classic

Courgettes with Georgian spices and walnuts

A simple and delicious summer starter

Letters to the Editor August 22 2025

Traditional Odesa forshmak

A simple chopped herring dish that makes a light starter or lunch

Anger after Jewish teenagers dismantle giant stone cross and turn it into Star of David

The actions of the group have upset locals and worried Jewish figures

The heroic rabbi of Terezin is remembered at the Czech Republic’s biggest festival of Jewish culture

The Stetl Fest in Brno runs from August 27 to 31

How can Judaism become more than just an identity?

There is so much to be gained by becoming more engaged with Judaism, writes Jane Tobin-Green