Eliana Jordan

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Britons have commemorated the anniversary of VE Day ever since —marking the Allied triumph with annual street parties, barbecues and thanksgiving services — but perhaps none can appreciate the weight of that day’s victory quite like the Jewish veterans who helped secure it. "I always wore a Magen David in blue and white on my uniform,” said Mervyn Kersh, a London-born veteran of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC).

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Russia was disqualified from the Eurovision Song Contest after the EBU found that the country's state broadcasters were complicit in state propaganda and weren’t independent of the country’s government. Last year’s competition in Malmo, Sweden saw Israeli contestant Eden Golan perform her song “October Rain”. Kan was asked to amend the song’s lyrics due to perceived references to the October 7 attacks.

2 weeks ago | thejc.com | Eliana Jordan

Laughter is generally a good thing, but it can become extraordinary when it pierces through the heavy shroud of a dark time, allowing a crack of light into an otherwise black and stuffy room. And this magic, the power of laughter to humanise and humble us, is as clear as crystal in the new Disney+ miniseries Dying for Sex, which is among very few shows that has had me laughing and crying in a single sitting.

3 weeks ago | thejc.com | Eliana Jordan

“It does feel like a homecoming,” he said upon arrival in Kielce. “It feels familiar to me in some mysterious, unknown way.” Thanks to the research of genealogist Matan Shefi, Andrew explores an expanded Garfinkel family tree, revealing the names and birth dates of Ludwig’s six siblings – five sisters and a brother – as well as his parents, Szmul and Chaja. “It’s like pulling open a trapdoor and finding a whole family line,” Garfield said.

1 month ago | thejc.com | Eliana Jordan

“It’s very rare to see people who might be known in other guises actually sit round and talk about their faith, this very intimate thing,” said Lederer, whose Czech-Jewish father’s side of the family was largely decimated by the Holocaust. Lederer said her Protestant mother had her christened as a child and, though she felt a cultural connection to her Jewish background, her father and paternal grandparents never talked about faith.