Two Jewish authors lead colourful debates at book festival
Jonathan Freedland discussed his best-selling book The Escape Artist and historian Simon Sebag Montefiore quizzed experts on Vladimir Putin's war at fifth annual Cliveden Literary Festival
From the archive: The Yom Kippur War in Israel and the UK
From the JC archive on October 12, 1973
In the shadow of Babyn Yar, Ukraine’s Jews return home
At the start of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in February, Kyiv's Central Synagogue was packed to the gunnels with human misery. Today, the shul is near-normal, as Kyiv bustles almost as busily as before the war started
Jewish charities join forces to sell works by Ukrainian artists to raise money for war-torn country
Works of art are being transported out of Ukraine to Poland by brave volunteers led by Alina Viatkina, 26, who fled her homeland after the Russian invasion
Book review: Clouds over Paris - the banal life of an occupier
Fascinating chronicle of the Nazi-occupied French capital shows how the most everyday issues seem more important than the biggest historical issues of the day
Book review: The People Immortal - A final war novel from a Russian master
A gripping chronicle of Soviet life in wartime and an indispensable companion piece to the author's other works
Obituary: Muriel Engelman
Heroic war veteran who risked German capture to nurse her 'wonderful' American GI soldiers
Jack Absolute Flies Again Theatre review: Fruity fun as rivals take to the skies
Writing duo behind One Man, Two Guvnors have created another rollickingly good farce
Israeli rescue expert builds vital Ukraine supplies ‘bridge’
Moti Kahana, renowned for his operations in saving refugees in Syria and Afghanistan, has launched a humanitarian service to bring vital supplies in and out of Ukraine.
How a young Jewish electronics expert helped win the War
The information young Londoner Jack Nissenthall gathered on a daring mission in Nazi-occupied Normandy played a vital role in D-Day planning
Obituary: Bernard Maurice Levy - Belsen liberator who became one of the last surviving death camp liberators later established high street chain store High and Mighty
He saw piles of the dead but also watched survivors grow strong again, as babies were born, barmitzvahs and marriages were celebrated and his people came back to life
‘Our president’s Jewish... So what?’ say the fighters for a modern Ukraine
Security expert Jonathan Spyer discovers the real reason why soldiers are serving on the Donbas battlefields
While conflict in Donbas ramps up again, the mood in Ukraine's capital is grim yet defiant
Suggestions that Ukraine should offer to cede territory in return for peace are greeted with scorn
Book review: Luck: A Personal Account of Fortune, Chance and Risk in Thirteen Investigations
Author David Flusfeder explores his family's history in this fascinating study of fortune
From Ukraine's Jewish post office chief, the stamp that shows we'll lick Putin
The sinking of a Russian warship has been immortalised in a stamp conceived by Ukraine’s Jewish postal chief, Igor Smelyansky
When Einstein and Freud put tensions aside to write on war
Despite a mutual loathing, when the League of Nations asked the two giants to collaborate over a pamphlet, they agreed
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