Cooking With Silvia: Jewish Flavours of Rome

Silvia is a London-based cook and well-recognised name on the international food & cooking circuit. She grew up in Rome, surrounded by her home country’s passion for food, and today specialises in a range of course where students can learn the secrets of real Italian food on their doorstep....read more

Does Chanukah Really Matter At All?

Chanukah, not least because of the time of year it’s celebrated, is probably one of the best known Jewish festivals. But is it really very important, or indeed, is it important at all?

How did this fairly obscure and quite controversial celebration find itself
promoted to justifying one of the biggest pull out supplements of the Jewish Chronicle every year? And why are Lubavitch so very eager to erect vast candelabra all over the place in mid-winter, when they don’t try anywhere near so hard to put up sukkot
every autumn in city centres or make people eat matza every spring in shopping malls?...read more

A Jew Thinks About Christmas

Time surely, to look squarely at this annual event and figure out what it's really all about and what Jews might make of it all....read more