BooksMeet the Holocaust survivor who became a TikTok sensationGidon Lev, who has over 500,000 social media followers, spent his early years in a concentration camp but refused to let the experience define himBy Jennifer Lipman5 min read
FilmThe enduring appeal of Nora Ephron, and the golden age of rom-comsA new book about the Jewish writer and director’s filmography brings nostalgia for the era of When Harry Met Sally style rom-comsBy Eliana Jordan3 min read
Books The Viennese-born snapper who recorded social injustice in BritainEdith Tudor Hart was an immensely talented documentary photographer whose work deserves to be better known. This biography-in-the-round will helpBy Amanda Hopkinson2 min read
Books The Empusium review: ‘hooch and misogyny at a gentlemen’s guesthouse’Booker and Nobel Prize-winner Olga Tokarcuk’s latest work falls slightly short of her previous literary achievementsBy Amanda Hopkinson2 min read
BooksThe Thinking Heart review: ‘David Grossman’s dream for Israel omits certain details’The leading Israeli novelist’s new book fails to ask tough questions about the Jewish state’s implacable enemiesBy David Herman2 min read
IsraelOver 1,000 authors including Sally Rooney sign ‘discriminatory’ boycott letterUK Lawyers for Israel claimed similar anti-Israel boycotts have faced legal actionBy Imogen Garfinkel2 min read
Books By Any Other Name review: ‘Shakespeare’s Marrano sister’In bestselling Jodi Picoult’s latest book some of the Bard’s most famous works were written by a Jewish woman who observes Friday night and Yom Kippur and sits a version of shiva when her friend diesBy Jennifer Lipman2 min read
The feted scholar who fears for Israel’s soulEven if you don’t fully agree with his views, Holocaust survivor Saul Friedländer’s centrality to Israeli history makes his analysis of the country vitalBy Felix Pope2 min read||October 16, 2024 10:22
‘My fiction shows the truth of what’s going on in northern Israel’Sarah Sultoon on how her experience reporting on Hezbollah and Lebanon steered her approach to writing her novel DirtBy Natalie Goldwater3 min read||October 16, 2024 09:26
Gaza ‘military jihadism’ is justified, says GCSE school textbookPublisher withdraws 'extremely disturbing' religious studies textbook, which has been in use for five yearsBy Jane Prinsley3 min read||October 15, 2024 12:20
‘I’ve created a Jewish version of Sherlock Holmes’Aron Goldin’s first book thrusts his intrepid East End protagonist on the trial of a serial killer in the intriguing setting of a 19th-century ConstantinopleBy Jennifer Lipman4 min read||October 8, 2024 16:26
The Gates of Gaza review: ‘why Israel is where it is’This personal and very painful book should disabuse anyone of the notion that there are easy answers for the Jewish stateBy Jennifer Lipman2 min read||October 2, 2024 10:08
The Vagina Business: Taking the stigma out of women’s healthMarina Gerner’s new book uncovers myriad health innovations for women, offering eye-opening solutions to the ways our medical system snubs female painBy Elisa Bray8 min read||September 30, 2024 11:40
The man who brought high fashion to New YorkJewish businessman Henri Bendel rose from running a plantation store in the deep south to becoming a Manhattan retail kingBy Melanie Abrams 6 min read||September 30, 2024 10:31
The Hebrew Teacher review: ‘big questions about the future of Israel’Maya Arad’s trio of widely feted novellas examine the familial and professional challenges facing Jews in California and in the Jewish stateBy David Herman2 min read||September 26, 2024 09:58
Placeholders review: An Irish-Jewish romance marred by loss and longingJames Roseman’s debut novel explores American Jewish identity and griefBy Eliana Jordan3 min read||September 25, 2024 14:50
