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Review: Age of Confidence: The New Jewish Culture Wave

Jewish Renaissance has sustained twenty years of Jewish cultural craftwork

By Robert Low

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Review: Age of Confidence: The New Jewish Culture Wave

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Review: Once We Were Slaves

By Sipora Levy

1 min read

Mostar, Herzegovina-Neretva, Bosnia and Herzegovina (Ex-Yugoslavia), 1975. The Neretva river with the famous bridge in Mostar. Furthermore: buildings, minarets and tourists (bridge).

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Review: After massacre, a butterfly

By Mark Glanville

2 min read

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Review: Working For The War Effort

By Amanda Hopkinson

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Review: Spymaster: The Man who Saved MI6

By Ahron Bregman

2 min read

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Review: The Frequency of Us

By Daniel Snowman

2 min read

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Review: The Whistleblower

By Martin Bright

1 min read

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The women in the shadows: The secret lives of the Rothschild women

A new book about the female members of the Rothschild family shows that many led fascinating lives out of the limelight. Anne Joseph met the author Natalie Livingstone

By Anne Joseph

6 min read

November 15, 2021 09:47

The women in the shadows: The secret lives of the Rothschild women

By David Herman

Israeli writers don’t need a Sally Rooney lecture

The Irish novelist prefers dogma to engaging with others, and reveals her own ignorance

3 min read

October 21, 2021 15:14

Israeli writers don’t need a Sally Rooney lecture

Robert Peston: the outsider who wants to include us all

ITN's political editor has written a thriller - with a Jewish hero. But how much is fact and how much is fiction?

By Keren David

6 min read

September 23, 2021 17:54

F63M1D Robert Peston meets Nick Robinson at Cheltenham Literature Festival Featuring: Robert Peston Where: Cheltenham, United Kingdom When: 10 Oct 2015

Review: Is Chesterton exposé  an act of atonement?

A great writer’s failings are laid bare with a hint of ambivalence

By Daniel Johnson

2 min read

September 20, 2021 18:10

Review: Is Chesterton exposé  an act of atonement?

Memories of the Med

Claudian Roden's latest cookery book is her most personal yet

By Victoria Prever

5 min read

September 9, 2021 14:46

Claudia Roden photographed for Waitrose magazine at home in London

By Andrew Pessin

What can we do about campus hate? I’ve written a satirical novel

Using my experience as an academic philosopher, I have written a book that sends up cancel culture and its ideology

5 min read

September 9, 2021 11:17

What can we do about campus hate? I’ve written a satirical novel

How does Judaism view other religions?

The controversy over Jonathan Sacks's book, The Dignity of Difference, written as a response to 9/11, has left lingering questions about Judaism's attitude towards other faiths

By Simon Rocker

3 min read

August 27, 2021 13:37