Max Hastings
Max Hastings is the author of more than thirty books, including All Hell Let Loose, Catastrophe, Vietnam and Abyss. In his early years as a correspondent, he reported on conflicts around the world including Vietnam, the 1973 Yom Kippur and 1982 Falklands wars for the BBC and various newspapers. A former editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph, he has won numerous awards both for his […]
Kate Bassett
Kate Bassett is a British journalist, writer, dramaturg and script consultant for stage and screen.
Jonathan Miller
Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller CBE was an English theatre and opera director, actor, author, television presenter, comedian and physician.
Daniel Goldfarb
Daniel Goldfarb is an illustrator, comic book and game artist based in Tel-Aviv. He worked for nearly every major Israeli newspaper and magazine, as well as numerous International publications, and was the cover artist for Liberal Magazine between 2016-2024.
Eliyahu Stern
Eliyahu Stern is professor of modern Jewish intellectual and cultural history at Yale University. He is the author of The Genius: Elijah of Vilna and the Making of Modern Judaism and Jewish Materialism: The Intellectual Revolution of the 1870s. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Jared Diamond
Jared Diamond is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the seminal million-copy-bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, which was named one of Time magazine’s best non-fiction books of all time, Collapse, a No. 1 international bestseller, and The World Until Yesterday, among other books. A professor of geography at UCLA and noted polymath, Diamond’s work has been […]
James McAuley
James McAuley is the author of The House of Fragile Things, which won the 2021 National Jewish Book Award. He is a journalist and former Paris correspondent for the Washington Post, and he has been published in The Economist, Times Literary Supplement, New York Times, New York Review of Books, among others. He holds a […]
Stephen Sackur
Stephen Sackur joined the BBC as a graduate trainee and spent many years as a foreign correspondent, covering the 1989 revolutions and the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the first Gulf War. He was based in Cairo from 1992 to 1995, and inJerusalem from 1995 to 1997. He then moved to Washington where he […]
Helen Graham
Helen Graham is a celebrated chef and food writer based in London. Drawing on her Jewish diasporic roots, she pioneers innovative vegetable-forward cooking inspired by cuisines across the Middle East, Eastern Europe and North Africa. She has worked at several prominent Middle Eastern restaurants including the Palomar, the Barbary and the Ottolenghi Test Kitchen. Helen was […]
Amotz Asa-El
Amotz Asa-El, The Jerusalem Post’s senior commentator and former executive editor, is a research fellow at Jerusalem’s Shalom Hartman institute. Winner of the Bnai Brith Journalism Award for his series of essays on the Jewish people’s future, Asa-El has been quoted, published and interviewed along the years by The New York Times, The Washington Post, […]
Catherine Ostler
Catherine Ostler is an author and journalist who has been Editor-in-Chief of Tatler, the English Standard (London), the Evening Standard magazine (London), and Editor of The Times (London) Weekend. She has also written for a wide range of publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Telegraph (London), the Financial Times, and Vogue. She studied English at Oxford University. Her first book was the critically acclaimed The Duchess […]
Will Self
Will Self is an author, journalist and broadcaster. He has written fourteen novels including the Umbrella trilogy: Umbrella, Shark, Telephone, Great Apes and The Quantity Theory of Insanity which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Umbrella was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Image © Polly Borland