Books A useful handbook on the Israel-Palestine deadlock...until it turns to NetanyahuColin Shindler’s historical guide is erudite and concise but perhaps guilty of wishful thinking when it describes a Tel Aviv rally as Bibi’s ‘Ceaușescu moment’By Robert Low3 min read
BooksHoward Jacobson’s brilliant new book on the moral insanity unleashed by October 7Howl is the first major British novel to address why so many in this country have been driven mad with hatred for IsraelBy David Herman2 min read
Kisharon Langdon‘Our social enterprise gives people work experience and the confidence to go into the big, wide world’To mark World Book Day, the JC joined Kisharon Langdon members at its huge second-hand books warehouse in HarrowBy Ben Conway4 min read
Jewish Book Week 2026Jewish Book Week draws record-breaking crowds on 75th anniversaryLondon’s oldest literary festival dates back to 1952By Daniel Ben-David1 min read
Books How landlord Rachman’s name became a household word for the worst reasonsNeil Roots has written a well-researched if lightly-edited biography about a man whose deeds were indefensibleBy Robert Low3 min read
Books Making the Cut review: razor-sharp tips on how to become an observant JewThis entertaining memoir does an excellent job of steering the non-Jewish, or less informed Jewish, reader through the maze of Orthodox JudaismBy Jenni Frazer2 min read
BooksEli Sharabi memoir ‘Hostage’ named Book of the Year at National Jewish Book AwardsThe book is ‘my testimony, a story of my survival, written so others could bear witness,’ the author saidBy Daniel Ben-David1 min read
New tales from the GhettoYou may think we know everything we need to about the world’s first ghetto and its Jews, but this remarkable history proves otherwiseBy Jenni Frazer1 min read||February 20, 2026 12:44
Meet the Holmes (and Watson) of pre-war East European JewryThe non-literary Yiddish tales of Spitzkopf and his assistant Fuchs display an appealing sense of Jewish invincibility and as such provide an insight into the minds of the Jews on the eve of their destructionBy Mark Glanville2 min read||February 19, 2026 15:09
Sex, lies and terroristsEllie Levenson’s thriller is a twisty page-turner with an intriguing concept that grabs from the get-goBy Jennifer Lipman1 min read||February 13, 2026 12:13
There’s no easy cure for the world’s longest hatred. But this book is a startThis rigorous guide works for Jewish readers trying to comprehend how this irrational madness is happening again, and for allies grappling with the question of why people hate JewsBy Nicole Lampert2 min read||February 12, 2026 15:48
The horror behind Hayim Bialik’s most feted poemOn the Slaughter is considered the Russian-Jewish poet’s masterpiece, as well as his most controversial workBy David Herman1 min read||February 6, 2026 09:07
If you wanted something done in Jewish Europe 300 years ago, who did you ask?The findings of this excellent work of scholarship will likely not surprise all readers of this newspaper...By Jennifer Lipman3 min read||February 4, 2026 12:46
‘Do we really want to know about human goodness?’Historian Anthony Seldon discusses his new book about the Shoah’s unsung heroes with Etan SmallmanBy Etan Smallman5 min read||January 30, 2026 09:06
October 7 survivor Amir Tibon scoops 2026 Wingate Prize for ‘The Gates of Gaza’The prize is awarded annually to the book deemed to best communicate ‘the idea of Jewishness to the general reader’By Jamie Shapiro2 min read||January 29, 2026 00:01
