As we light the first candles for Chanukah, Eli Abt profiles the artist Benno Elkan who created potent symbols of the Jewish nation
Eli Abt analyses a gloriously illustrated festival prayerbook
The Warsaw ghetto uprising took place on erev Pesach 80 years ago. What did we learn?
Chagall’s masterpiece is especially resonant when we mourn on Tishah b’Av, says Eli Abt
Donations are needed to renovate the shuls of the ghetto reports Eli Abt
Eli Abt unravels the mysteries of a glorious 14th-century Haggadah from Barcelona
The ancient synagogue ruins had glorious hidden murals
As William Shatner reaches for the stars, Eli Abt looks back at the sages who studied them
Succot’s arba minim are among Jewish images adorning a fourth century mosaic which, says Eli Abt, once fell victim to a shameful attack
For Rosh Hashanah Eli Abt analyses a zodiac mosaic, the work of the first recorded Jewish artists discovered at a kibbutz
Eli Abt visits the British Museum's Nero exhibition to shed light on the background to Tisha b'Av
At Shavuot we celebrate the giving of the Ten Commandments. But why do some shuls display tablets which seem to have 11?
A page from a medieval haggadah tells us a lot about the world of the man who commissioned it, says Eli Abt
Purim is the Jewish festival which takes on hate - and uses humour as a weapon to fight it, says Eli Abt
Visit the National Gallery for the Artemisia Gentileschi.exhibition and you'll see several paintings of Judith, the biblical figure long associated with the festival of Chanukah
Eli Abt reviews the British Library's exhibition of Hebrew manuscripts
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