Jason is joined this month by Marina Benjamin, author of family memoir Last Days of Babylon and Rabbi Jeremy Gordon of the New London Masorti Synagogue.

School may be breaking up for the summer, but the controversy around who counts as Jewish seems unlikely to take a rest – following the court of appeal's ruling that Britain's largest Jewish secondary school is operating a racist admissions policy. We'll hear from the Guardian's Jonathan Freedland, novelist Linda Grant and others.

Talking of the "Who is a Jew?" debate, what to make of news that Charles Taylor, the former Liberian dictator, warlord and alleged cannibal wants to convert to Judaism? Former Ali G writer and Edinburgh festival performer Jamie Glassman takes a look at Jewish wannabes from Marilyn Monroe to Felicity Kendal via Sammy Davis Jnr. And guess what: David Beckham's one of us, too.

And finally, why Jewish women were the leading ladies of Bollywood – a special report on the stars of Indian cinema, which comes to us via Tablet Magazine.

We're taking a break during August – Sounds Jewish will be back in September.