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Stir the pot this Mitzvah Day with a warming batch of home made soup

If you’re looking for a way to help others a big broth could be the answer

Parashah of the week: Toldot

“He ate, he drank, he rose, he left. Esau spurned the birthright” Genesis 25:29-34

Pro-Palestine activists found guilty of harassing Labour MP have convictions overturned

The pair argued that their actions were protected under their right to free speech and expression

I never intended to be a rabbi: How Rabbis Shlomo Levin and Joseph Dweck found their pulpit

Two leading Orthodox rabbis revealed how they came to accept their vocation

Too Much review: new Lena Dunham series is a soppy, sweet love letter to London ★★★★

The ‘Girls’ writer’s big return to TV pays homage to beloved British romcoms with impeccable cast, lots of tears and plenty of sex

Israeli actor Shira Haas cast in Netflix adaptation of Ira Levin’s The Boys from Brazil

The series, based on Levin’s 1976 novel, follows Holocaust survivor turned Nazi hunter Yakov Liebermann as he tracks down fugitive war criminals

Gustav Klimt portrait of Elisabeth Lederer sold for £180m at Sotheby’s

Oil painting of Austrian-Jewish society figure fetches near-record price at New York auction of Lauder billionaire collection

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Britain should follow Germany and resume all arms exports to Israel

The weapons sale suspension was neither just nor justified. It’s high time to repair our relationship with an ally critical to our security – and potentially even more vital in missile defence

Lanzmann’s Shoah was so well done many find it near-impossible to watch

Claude Lanzmann’s epic reshaped how the Holocaust is remembered. He built his film not on archives but on silence – the terrible absence left by the dead

What Have I Done? review: A highly entertaining autobiography by the oft-maligned ‘Blackadder’ writer

Jewish comedian and writer Ben Elton settles old scores in this frank account of his life in showbiz

‘I always felt Jewish – I was thrilled to find out I actually am’: Meet the Jews who are finding their way home to Jewishness

With their Jewish roots hidden for generations, these are the people rediscovering – and embracing – their Jewish identities in adulthood

The Lobbyist review: A fun yarn of bribery, corruption and bonkfests galore

Lionel Zetter’s novel captures the rapacious spirit of Britain’s political centre

Nearly half of Britons believe the UK is ‘an unsafe place for Jewish people’

Overall, 45 per cent of Britons surveyed believe the UK is now either a very or mostly unsafe place for Jews, polling has found

It’s probably easier to point out great lyricists who weren’t Jewish

From Irving Berlin down through to Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan and my own favourites, Dory Previn and Leonard Cohen, all have the same ethnicity. I’m exaggerating… please don’t write in.

Shabana Mahmood reveals she was labelled an ‘infidel’ by Gaza campaigners

The home secretary told a BBC podcast about the abuse she faced in the run-up to the 2024 election