‘The real argument we are witnessing is not between Catholics and Jews. It is an internal Catholic debate about the direction of the Church’

Two 19th-century novels reveal contrasting attitudes to music and its place in Jewish culture

The British and Israeli novelists Howard Jacobson and A.B. Yehoshua discuss the new wave of anti-Jewish rhetoric with Standpoint editor Daniel Johnson

How should we judge these distinguished TV presenters, who are employed by a channel that publishes the work of Holocaust deniers?

‘All it takes to stay off Stephen Walt’s list of “usual suspects” is to have a non-Jewish sounding surname’

‘The decision to ban Wilders was the desperate diktat of ministers who have lost sight of the distinction between arbitrary government and the rule of law’

The Vatican misjudged the public mood over Richard Williamson, but secular commentators don't understand the idea of excommunication

An abridged version of an address at a memorial service for Rabbi Sidney Brichto, who died on 16 January 2009

Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce by Sarah A. Stein

Robert Redeker has lived in hiding in France for two years. His offence? To have criticised the Prophet Muhammad