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Review: Priscilla Queen of the Desert

Review: Madame de Sade

Review: Two Lovers

Review: The Damned United

Review: Kafka’s Monkey

A humanity lesson from Kafka’s ape

Review: Forced Journeys

We visit an exhibition devoted to the work of artists who fled the Nazis

Apprentice Watch: It’ll soon get ugly

Ex-candidate Michael Sophocles casts his expert eye over Sir Alan’s new crop of hopefuls.

Rescuing Seder songs

A website has been set up to save traditional Pesach music from obscurity.

The badger on my head? It helps me fight youth crime

Why did a British artist meet an Israeli mayor wearing a stuffed animal?

The Jewish Scorsese turns to romance

Director James Gray made his name with a kosher crime drama. Now he’s got Gwyneth Paltrow falling in love with a Yiddishe boy.

Interview: Maureen Lipman

Cuddly? The Jewish everymum hits out

Kitniot

Kitniyot are pulses or beans in Hebrew.

Why we bless the sun

This year, Wednesday April 8, will be the day on which Jews have the rare opportunity to recite the prayers of the service of blessing the sun, or, rather, the prayers by which we bless the Creator of the sun.

Vayikra

“If a person will sin: if he accepted a demand for an oath, and he is a witness — either he saw or knew — if he does not testify, he shall bear his sin” Leviticus 5:1

Can't rabbis act to lower Pesach prices?

Rabbi, I have a problem

Let’s hear it for Moses and Jay