People in Australia pay their respects to the victims of the mass shooting at Bondi Beach, Sydney. Photograph: Audrey Richardson/Getty Images A number of years ago, I visited the old ghetto in Venice, Europe’s oldest, established at the beginning of the 16th century. It still retains the original five synagogues that catered for both Ashkenazi and Sephardic traditions that had settled in Venice. Our guide was passionate about his Venetian, Jewish heritage and proud of the mul

Oliver Sears returns to Łodz with an exhibition honouring his murdered grandfather – and confronting Poland’s uneasy memory of its vanished Jewish community The building work is nearing an end at the Melody Lofts, a three-storey redbrick factory that has gained two additional floors and is now flanked by two modern neighbouring buildings. Hoardings outside promise stylish new homes for people who value” space, style and history”. We are in the city of Lodz in central Poland,

A child eats food rations last Wednesday in Gaza City. Across the Strip the whole population is 'at critical risk of famine', according...

Everyone who encounters the Holocaust becomes implicated, a new witness to the mystery and the horror, with the responsibility to recount its history honestly.

To acknowledge, 80 years later, that the crimes of the Holocaust were committed by our kith and kin is to fire the starting pistol in the ra

‘Anti-Zionism’ has become the new Antisemitism in Ireland

Why are Jews, alone, not entitled to express their identity through their ancient connection to their homeland?