SpainFrance 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
SportsThe 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
BooksThe 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
GermanyGerman school textbooks show ‘strong anti-Israel bias’, report claimsReport reveals a disturbing trend of blaming Jewish state for the conflict with the PalestiniansBy Rob Hyde2 min read
BooksMeet the ‘Jewish American hero’ whose bookstore is improving the worldThe story is the focus of a warm and quirky documentary released this weekBy Stephen Applebaum6 min read
BooksDavid Baddiel: ‘It’s not completely true that I have no attachment to Israel’Author of Jews Don't Count U-turns on his 2020 tweet: 'I don’t care about stupid f***ing Israel' in JC podcastBy Katie Grant1 min read
Family historyQuest to discover the lost actress of Vilnius who is full of mysteryDiplomat Meryl Frank spent years tracing the wartime fate of her Lithuanian relative. But the truth was sitting on her bookshelfBy Jenni Frazer6 min read
Why is Avi Shlaim recycling the ‘Baghdad bombings’ theory?Shlaim’s theory is far from conclusiveBy Lyn Julius3 min read||June 20, 2023 15:34
Writer Adam Kay says life 'absolutely transformed' by babiesThe This Is Going To Hurt author revealed he has had two children via surrogacyBy Felix Pope2 min read||June 18, 2023 12:31
The Cameraman review: Suspense in short supply in evocation of the ThirtiesThe English Passengers novelist returns with a disappointingly flat story about a cinematographer on a tour of fascist EuropeBy David Herman1 min read||June 15, 2023 16:29
This Is Europe: The Way We Live Now review - All of human life is hereBen Judah broadens the scope of his epic feat of reportage on contemporary London to take in the relentless unpredictability of everyday life on the continentBy Rabbi Howard Cooper2 min read||June 15, 2023 16:21
The Washington Post reporter who decided to novelise the Israel-Palestine conflictJournalist Ruth Marks Eglash’s day job is writing about the Middle East. But when her Israeli children started asking about tensions in the region, she struggled to answer. So she turned to fictionBy Ruth Marks Eglash3 min read||June 15, 2023 15:58
Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad review: An epic tale of a family’s struggleDaniel Finkelstein's family memoir manages to tell an intimate story on a grand scaleBy Stephen Pollard2 min read||June 8, 2023 15:27
Could Jews hold the secret to healing broken Britain?Patriotism can calm the immigration debate, end the culture wars and unite communities — and Jews have it in abundance, argues the author of a new bookBy Stephen Pollard3 min read||June 8, 2023 10:36
The exodus of the German 'creative thinkers' as Hitler seized control of GermanyStudy of the creative exodus from the Nazis in 1933 is a timeless reminder of what is lost when a regime denies its own writers their voiceBy Amanda Hopkinson2 min read||June 1, 2023 15:58
'My mum was rounded up by Hitler's henchmen whilst games were being played in local parks'Tory peer Daniel Finkelstein tells of the harrowing stories of camps and gulags in his bookBy Tanya Gold 7 min read||June 1, 2023 15:18
