BooksOsip 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
BooksThe 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
BooksObituary: Meir ShalevSpirited Israeli writer whose words pulsated with the history of his homelandBy Gloria Tessler4 min read
BooksThe secret rescue plan which saved 10,000 Jews from the Holocaust exploredA new book explores the Lados group who created false passports to allow those persecuted by Nazi-occupiers to escapeBy Felix Pope1 min read
BooksThe Jewish author on the road to greatness after being longlisted for Booker PrizeSarah Bernstein’s second novel made the longlist for the Booker Prize this week, but she’s surprised to be in the literary limelightBy Anne Joseph4 min read
BooksThe Land of Hope and Fear: Israel’s Battle for its Inner Soul review - How diverse Israel manages itselfNuanced picture of Israel explores its spirit of innovation, identity politics, culture wars and inability to agree a border with the PalestiniansBy Colin Shindler2 min read
Children's booksChina ‘censors’ Jewish children’s book by redrawing Israeli borderChinese altered map in publication, redrawing the Israeli border and adding the word 'Palestine' to imageBy Elisa Bray1 min read
Rob Rinder and JC Editor to discuss new concept of ‘Israelophobia’ at JW3 eventJake Wallis Simons introduces the term and defines it in his new book, 'Israelophobia: The Newest Version of the Oldest Hatred and What To Do About It'By Katie Grant1 min read||August 3, 2023 11:02
The House of Love and Prayer and Other Stories review - Dark tales of Orthodox life with a feminist twistPowerfully told dark stories should help author break through to a new British audienceBy David Herman2 min read||July 27, 2023 15:12
Eternal review - The fate of Italy’s Jews made clear despite the frothLegal thriller writer Lisa Scottoline turns her hand to historical fiction with well-researched wartime storyBy Jenni Frazer2 min read||July 27, 2023 14:57
Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism reviewGenesis of white supremacist hatred is a richly researched exploration of Christian racismBy Rabbi Howard Cooper3 min read||July 21, 2023 08:54
Isaiah Berlin: A Life review - A fine account intellectual's Jewishness and EnglishnessThis is a fine account of one of Britain’s greatest Jewish intellectuals of the 20th centuryBy David Herman1 min read||July 21, 2023 08:44
Summer reading 2023: Our pick of the best books for the beachOur list ranges from sharp-eyed social satires to a Killing Eve-style thriller about a heroine bent on revengeBy Jennifer Lipman3 min read||July 13, 2023 16:30
France on Trial review: The Case of Marshal Pétain - Jewish saviour or antisemite?The reputation of France’s wartime leader comes under the microscope in Julian Jackson's scholarly workBy Daniel Snowman2 min read||July 6, 2023 16:39
The Jewish tennis star banned by the Nazis who went on to play at WimbledonAuthor Felice Hardy on the extraordinary story of her grandmother, which she tells in her new bookBy Nicole Lampert8 min read||July 6, 2023 13:44
The Trial book review: Is there anything Rob Rinder can't do?A sparely written and enjoyable page-turner from the barrister turned TV personalityBy Jenni Frazer2 min read||June 30, 2023 12:30
