Climate change is affecting us all. So what is the Jewish community doing to help combat it?
By Ben Weich
The far-right party, known for its Kahanist factions, failed to cross the electoral threshold last week
By Colin Shindler
An upcoming sitcom about a Jewish publication centres on a hapless hack who is ‘not the most successful journalist in the world’ (not inspired by the JC, we'd like to stress)
By Jenni Frazer
As the Blackadder writer makes his return to stand-up comedy after a 15-year break, he tells of his struggle to satirise today's world leaders - and his deep interest in Jewish history
By Lee Harpin
The latest book by the former head of Reform Judaism is the culmination of nearly 50 years in the rabbinate
By Simon Rocker
As the House of Commons speaker stands down, the JC republishes our interview with the then-chairman of Federation of Conservative Students, who wore a Rambo t-shirt for the occasion
On September 3 1939, Soviet spy Kim Philby met his future wife. The matchmaker was his long-time friend and influential Zionist Flora Solomon, who eventually helped unmask him
By Robert Philpot
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Loyal Marxists today maintain that the ‘true’ version of the ideology is free of antisemitism. A closer look at Russian history after the 1917 Revolution debunks this claim
By David Aberbach
It is 90 years since a dispute over access to the Western Wall triggered a horrific massacre of Jews in a city that is now in the West Bank
By bY cOLIN sHINDLER
Bernard Kessler escaped on the Kindertransport days before the Second World War. Now he has published his memoir
By Daniel Sugarman
When the Nazis invaded 80 years ago, the city was a key target. Five years later, the city's nearby death camp was the last to be freed
In the final part of his account of travelling to say Kaddish for his grandfather, Maurice Glasman realises who he was really looking for all along
By Maurice Glasman
The liberation of Paris in August 1944 involved thousands of Jewish soldiers. Some had fought up from Egypt; others had fled the Holocaust
Rabbi Joseph Polak said that while the work was derived from 'real evil', it is 'used in the service of good'
By Aleks Phillips
In part four, Maurice Glasman finally gets to say Kaddish in his grandfather's Ukranian shtetl, with the help of the last Jew living there
Group says Jew-hate 'contravenes our fundamental belief that all people are equal and precious' - but has a history of accommodating controversial speakers
