Sounds Jewish podcast: Hanukah and end of year review 2011

With guests Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland, editor of the Jewish Quarterly Rachel Lasserson and, performing in studio, from their album Songs in the Key of Hanukkah musicians Erran Baron Cohen and Jules Brookes.

From the bid for Palestinian statehood back in September to the non-stop protests across the Arab world – we'll look back on a year of turmoil in the region and ask what the impact has been on Israel.

The 'Nazi' jibes by John Galliano and film director Lars von Trier: easily dismissed as the rants of eccentric artists or part of a wider, more worrying picture?

The Jewish cultural moments of the year, from David Grossman's award-winning novel to the revival after half a century of Arnold Wesker's Chicken Soup with Barley – and why the death of Amy Winehouse was especially poignant for British Jews.

It was one of the cult US TV imports this year - Old Jews Telling Jokes. We thought it was time to launch our own British version, celebrating the wit, wisdom – and downright filthy humour – of old British Jews.

Sounds Jewish is taking a break in January but will be back again in February.

• Sounds Jewish is produced in association with the Jewish Community Centre for London