Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Thursday 15 December
Budapest’s Jewish culture boom
The air is filled with the scent of freshly baked cakes and the sound of klezmer music.
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Affairs / Diplomacy
Monocolumn
Friday 13 August
A reminder of the ‘Jewish catastrophe’
Just a month after playing host to a Russian-American spy swap, Vienna’s international airport was again last week the stage for a surprising secretive manoeuvre.
Edits / Travel
Leopoldstadt
A Jewish enclave a century ago, Vienna’s Karmeliterviertel – part of the larger Leopoldstadt – was down and out for much of the postwar period. But thanks to creative energy and smart city planning, the area is booming.
Affairs / Diplomacy
Monocolumn
Tuesday 11 May
Israel happy to join the club
It is not every day that some of Israel’s harshest critics raise their hands in favour of the Jewish State.
The Menu, episode 35
Jewish food in Tunis, the popularity of fish at Berlin’s most popular cornershop deli, and the Bangkok chef looking to the future of Thai food.
Business / Food & Drink
Monocolumn
Monday 25 July
Birobidzhan: Russia's Jews look East
The highlight of the specials on the menu at Fanza, a restaurant in Birobidzhan, the capital of Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region is wild boar.
The Monocle Daily, episode 50
Tyler Brûlé interviews Tony Tyler of the IATA about the trends in aviation for 2012. Plus, we learn about a new Jewish newspaper in Germany.
Midori House, episode 109
Why thousands of Spanish workers are on strike, Frankfurt’s new mayor discusses his Jewish heritage, and a look at the resignation of Sweden’s defence minister.
Affairs / Politics
First lady
Bahraini Houda Ezra Ebrahim Nonoo has broken the diplomatic mould by being a young Jewish woman representing an Arab country abroad. With her island nation’s proximity to Iran, relations with that country occupy much of her…
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Wednesday 24 November
A grand reunion for kibbutz volunteers
Long before the Six-Day War and Camp David Accords, Jewish settlers and Hamas militants, there was the kibbutz – that early 20th-century experiment in collective living now celebrating its 100th anniversary.
Affairs / Media
Monocolumn
Saturday 20 March
Naked ambition
The ancient Jewish leader Hillel once famously asked: “If not now, when?” More than 2,000 years later, a group of five young Israeli college students is embracing this maxim to help give a new – and decidedly risqué –…
Culture / Society
Monocolumn
Friday 11 December
A Hungarian Hannukah
As Jews around the world prepare to celebrate the festival of Hannukah tonight, the Hungarian capital is hosting its biggest-ever Hannukah festival.
Affairs / Diplomacy
Monocolumn
Thursday 14 October
New setback, same problems – an Israeli view on the peace process
The American envoy for Middle East peace is not a man to envy.
Culture / Society
Monocolumn
Sunday 19 September
Death camp tourism with David Irving
While most Poles have already returned from their favourite summer destinations in Greece and Egypt, their country is about to host perhaps one of the most bizarre tours in the history of tourism.
Business / Society
Monocolumn
Tuesday 13 July
Selling hummus to Israelis
When they first began arriving in the country in 2005, Sudan’s war-weary Darfuri refugees posed a serious problem for Israeli immigration authorities.
Culture / Society
Monocolumn
Wednesday 13 July
Israel contemplates working week culture shift
The story goes that it was initially an American president who suggested that Israelis shift to a five-day working week.