BooksThe Wolf Hunt review: How well do you really know the people you love?A lovely novel overall but Gundar-Goshen may have wrapped up the plot all too rapidly and expedientlyBy Jenni Frazer2 min read
IsraelophobiaThe editor's story: Jake Wallis Simons on what Israelophobia means to himFormer JC editor Stephen Pollard interviews his successor about his Orthodox childhood, life as a foreign correspondent and his new bookBy Stephen Pollard7 min read
IsraelophobiaThe Soviet spin doctors who sowed the seeds of left-wing IsraelophobiaA week after liberal rabbis called Israel an ‘apartheid regime’, JC editor Jake Wallis Simons, in a third extract from his new book, reveals how the trope is rooted in Soviet propagandaBy Jake Wallis Simons9 min read
BooksWhy the descendants of one Jewish family destroyed by Holocaust are still living with the traumaKaren Kirsten discovered her family had been lying to her for yearsBy Nicole Lampert5 min read
BooksState of Halakha - Israel’s History in Jewish Law review: Examining Israeli history through the eyes of halakhaRabbi and educator Aviad Tabory explores watershed events and major issues in modern Israeli history through the lens of halakhaBy Dr Harris Bor1 min read
Israeli Judicial ReformThe pursuit of unity is a religious ideal we must not forsakeA more than timely work from the chairman of World Mizrachi, Rabbi Doron PerezBy Simon Rocker2 min read
BooksThe Israeli author on a quest to find out how well she knows her familyAyelet Gundar-Goshen’s latest novel explores how well we know the people we loveBy Anne Joseph6 min read
The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust’s Most Audacious Rescue Operation reviewFormer protégé of leading historian Norman Davies has written a crucial addition to Holocaust bibliographyBy Daniel Snowman3 min read||September 1, 2023 09:06
How to Love Your Daughter review: Psychologically brilliant on a mother’s primal fearHila Blum's novel is a book that becomes part of you and helps you understand the world around youBy Keren David2 min read||August 31, 2023 14:51
How the ‘progressive’ left became a global wellspring of IsraelophobiaIn the second of three weekly extracts from his new book, JC editor Jake Wallis Simons digs into its ideological originsBy Jake Wallis Simons11 min read||August 31, 2023 12:36
This Bird Has Flown review: An entertaining romance from a rock music world proBangles singer Susanna Hoffs’ debut never fails to entertain even if her understanding of Britain seems solely shaped by Jilly Cooper and Richard CurtisBy Jennifer Lipman1 min read||August 25, 2023 09:06
The Maverick review: The most well connected man in the Western worldThere's plenty to admire in an unconventional biography of George WeidenfeldBy Stephen Pollard2 min read||August 25, 2023 08:48
The fashion icon bringing his trendspotting eye to the world of booksSimon Burstein once ran South Molton Street retail landmark Browns - now he is applying his considerable skills to preserve the art of book bindingBy Melanie Abrams 5 min read||August 24, 2023 15:29
Rare Daniel Mendoza autobiography fetches £10,000 at auctionA copy of the book written by the celebrated Jewish boxer sold for twice as much as expectedBy Katie Grant1 min read||August 24, 2023 13:54
Osip Mandelstam: A Biography review - The poet who dared to criticise StalinSympathetic grasp of artistic genius behind some of the greatest poetry of the 20th centuryBy Mark Glanville2 min read||August 17, 2023 15:41
The award-winning novel which asks: 'What happens when parents get things wrong?'Hila Blum tells of the therapeutic effect of writing her book How to Love your DaughterBy Jennifer Lipman4 min read||August 17, 2023 14:57
