If you’d told me 20 years ago that the Jewish Chronicle would one day be at the centre of a minor diplomatic scandal I would’ve spat out my Corn Flakes. At that age I read the paper at the breakfast table, skipping to the centrefold to see which of my friends’ bat mitzvah photos had made the cut. These days I read it to find out which of my friends has had a hit piece done on them — a special interfaith rite of passage the paper has created exclusively for leftwing Jews and Muslims. The oldest continuously published Jewish newspaper in the UK (it was founded in 1841), the JC’s self-description…