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Theatre

My play about being young, gay and strictly Orthodox

A formerly frum writer on how he hopes his ex-community will watch his new work

By John Nathan

5 min read

Leap of faith: Clara Francis, Ilan Galkoff and Ben Caplan. Inset: Shimmy Braun (Photos: Michael Wharley, Ryan Howard)

Film

Hallow Road, review: ‘Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys in car-crash nail-biter’

By John Nathan

1 min read

Theatre

Here We Are, review: ‘this Sondheim musical feels like unfinished business’

By John Nathan

1 min read

Modi and his mum pose backstage at The Beacon Theatre in NYC. (Photo: Daniel Landesman/Facebook)

Jewish Comedy

Meet Modi, the New York comedian charming Jewish mothers all over the world

By Eliana Jordan

3 min read

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Unique perspective: Richard Susskind and his new book

Books

Does the brave new world of AI utterly baffle you? Then this is the book for you

By Robert Low

2 min read

tikkun olam

Has tikkun olam run its course?

Once the rallying call of Progressive Jewry in the USA, the concept of repairing the world is falling out of fashion in left-wing circles

By Siam Goorwich

8 min read

Jewish children's books

The Jewish Children's Book Awards launch their final competition

Green Bean Books’ prize celebrates exciting new work by Jewish writers and illustrators working in the UK and Europe

By Elisa Bray

2 min read

Publisher and writer Michael Leventhal hopes the 2026 Jewish Children's Book Awards will be the prize’s 'best year yet'

Books

Noble Fragments by Michael Visontay, review: ‘two stories in one book’

This gripping expedition into an arcane world of book collectors and their eccentric passions papers over an even more intriguing yarn about family history

By Jennifer Lipman

2 min read

Noble Fragments by Michael Visontay, review: ‘two stories in one book’

Books

Sons and Daughters by Chaim Grade, review: ‘a lost world comes to life’

A deeply affecting portrait of a pious family’s trials and turmoil in an eastern Europe on the brink of collapse

By Mark Glanville

2 min read

Chaim Grade and the new translation of his novel Sons and Daughters

Lifestyle

Israel

For your next Israeli adventure, head north

Chances are you’ve done Israel’s greatest hits, so now it’s time for its hidden gems

By Josh Kaplan

4 min read

A bar mitzvah at the ancient synagogue of Ein Keshtaot in the Golan Heights

Opera

Die Walküre at the Royal Opera House: ‘Wagner played to perfection’

Australian Jewish director Barrie Kosky whips up a perfect storm of brilliance in what is arguably the greatest opera ever written

By Stephen Pollard

2 min read

Bullseye: the singers in this production of Wagner's Die Walküre not only sound wonderful, they can also act

Film

Thunderbolt review: ‘not even Florence Pugh can fire this up’

The action sequences are excellent, but this film is proof that Marvel’s glory days are over

By John Nathan

1 min read

Vegetarian

Marc Summers and his expanding Bubala family have pulled into Kings Cross

The restaurateur shares why his growing brood are giving him sleepless nights

By Victoria Prever

4 min read

Marc Summers and his expanding Bubala family have pulled into Kings Cross

Theatre

Giant review: ‘Dahl – a very poisonous national treasure’

The children’s author’s deep-seated loathing of Jews is slowly and shockingly revealed in this West End transfer of Mark Rosenblatt’s award-winning play

By John Nathan

1 min read

Tense: John Lithgow as Raold Dahl and Elliot Levey as his agent Tom Mascher (Photo: Johan Persson)

Theatre

‘How being Jewish helps me play the Wicked Witch of the West’

Actor Emma Kingston on why she is relishing playing Elphaba in West End smash Wicked

By Nicole Lampert

4 min read

Theatre

Dealer’s Choice review: ‘male inadequacies laid bare’

Set around a poker table, this play anchors on a painful father-son relationship and shows that the stake are always higher than the amount of cash on the table

By John Nathan

1 min read

Deal or no deal: Brendan Coyle and Kasper Hilton-Hille in Dealer's Choice

Theatre

Theatre review: Ghosts ‘Today’s moral landscape imposes itself on Ibsen’s play’

The action is updated to 21st century Britain

By John Nathan

1 min read

Film & TV

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Rabbi Herschel Gluck in new film How to get on with everybody (Photo: Winstan Whitter & Elin Moe)

Stamford Hill

Rabbi Gluck’s life captured in touching new film

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

BBC’s Nova documentary We Will Dance Again honoured by Emmy Awards

Film about October 7 honoured with top award and two nominations at International Emmys

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

Motel Destino review: ‘sordid thrills in Brazil’

An unflinchingly seedy thriller set under a bleaching sun

By John Nathan

1 min read

Dying for Sex review: ‘will make you laugh and cry’

This show about one woman’s libidinous adventures following a diagnosis of terminal breast cancer is at once tragic, hilarious, raunchy and moving

By Eliana Jordan

3 min read

Travel

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Travel

A cook’s tour of Slovenia

By Catherine Cooper

4 min read

Nashville’s on my mind

There’s a lot more to Nashville than country music, as Barry Toberman discovered on a recent trip

By Barry Toberman

7 min read

The Thai vegan retreat where Israelis go to zen out

Kapuhala is popular with Israelis drawn by an environment that lends itself well to those keeping kosher – or who just want to take in its off-the-beaten-track vibe

By Lianne Kolirin

3 min read

Visiting the artists’ village in the south of France where Chagall is buried

St Paul de Vence is a must-visit destination for art lovers

By Anthea Gerrie

5 min read

Books

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Books

The Assault review: ‘return of a classic war novel’

By David Herman

2 min read

38 Londres Street by Philippe Sands review: Pinochet and the Nazis

The human rights lawyer’s latest book reveals the links between the notorious Chilean dictator and the Nazi inventor of the ‘gas vans’

By Jenni Frazer

3 min read

How heroes outwitted collaborators in Nazi-occupied Norway

This book is a rigorously documented history of wartime resistance in Norway

By Robert Low

2 min read

‘Douglas Murray’s latest book must be read even by those of us who think we know exactly what is going on’

The journalist’s bestseller combines reportage from inside Israel, Gaza and Lebanon and should open minds to the precarious position we find ourselves in the West

By Nicole Lampert

6 min read