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Interview: Mark Regev

I became the voice of Israel by accident

‘Bagels can change your perspective on history’

Maria Balinska has written a book on the rise of the roll.

Penny Isaacs - Food writer

Recipe: Banana, coconut and lime spring rolls

A festival to fry for

The evolution of Chanucah’s deep-fried, sugary and cheesy treats.

‘Imagine This’ failed because it wasn’t great art

Only stage writing of the very highest order can make a ‘Holocaust musical’ work

Travel on Shabbat works for me

Far from being a ‘sin’, my journey with London’s new Sheriff on Shabbat was my ethical duty

Ukraine: why we should worry

Economic meltdown could unleash barely hidden anti-semitism

Religious courts have a place

A call to ban religious tribunals has dangerous implications

Q: does Israel prefer the JC or the Guardian?

Israel needs to bombard its enemies with facts — and not take its friends for granted

Festival of lights is a festival-lite

Citizen Zell finds life tough in the media

Times are hard for Jewish newspaper bosses as new media and the credit crunch

Apocrypha

Apocrypha refers to books not included in the biblical canon, which was closed around 100 CE.

Vayeshev

“Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age” Genesis 37:3

Did Adam have a taste for mince pies?

An ancient rabbinic text suggests an intriguing link between Chanucah and other midwinter festivities.

This is how you play Fagin, Rowan

As Rowan Atkinson prepares to play Fagin, Jonathan Pryce, Timothy Spall and Michael Feast tell how they approached the role