WHAT'S NEW
MUSEUM TAKES A STAND
JEWISH SCULPTOR COMMEMORATES FOLEY
INCLUSIVENESS IS NEW SCHOOL'S WATCHWORD
THE JR INTERVIEW
JONATHAN FREEDLAND The high profile and controversial Guardian journalist, is proud of his Jewishness but profoundly annoys many fellow Jews. Janet Levin finds out more about the man, his formative years and his hopes for the future
JUDAISM AND...
JUDAISM AND THE VISUAL IMAGE Elliott Tucker puts forward some challenging ideas on the way forward for Jewish art
HERITAGE
THE MYSTERY OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS Angela Levine recalls the sensational history of the discovery of these incomparably important scrolls and reports on the latest controversy
MUSIC
THE POWER OF SYNAGOGUE MUSIC Stephen Glass waxes lyrical on the role of music in the synagogue and explains why a renaissance is necessary
PARIS KLEZMER Cyril Robinson talks to some of the players in the Jewish music scene in Paris and provides a guide as to where to go to hear the stars
THE JEWS OF LIBYA
HISTORY Janet Naim tells the story of the community that began in the days of the Roman Empire
THE BEGINNING OF THE END Aldo Habib tells his own personal experience of living through the years of Italian fascism, British administration, and an increasingly hostile environment culminating in exile in 1967
HERBERT PAGANI The story of the artist/writer/poet/film-maker and his Letter to the Colonel
EVERYDAY LIFE Life as it was lived in the heyday of the community, in words and pictures
PASSOVER TRADITIONS Raphael Luzon details the traditions that are specific to the Libyan community
LOVE AND MARRIAGE Mali Tayar Zekeria and Janet Naim on the colourful betrothal customs
IN LIBYA NOW Raphael Luzon on the glimmers of hope as negotiations with Colonel Gadhaffi begin
RUNNING RISKS FOR THE RECORD The story of the photographers who took illicit photos of the current state of synagogues and cemeteries
THOSE WHO STAYED Pedazur Benatti on the last Jewish residents
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ART
POLISH ARTISTS INSPIRED BY JEWISH TRADITION Henryk Halkowski talks to papercut artist Marta Golab; Lena Stanley-Clamp views the installation of Janusz Marciniak
MARK CHAGALL AND THE BIBLE Monica Bohm-Duchen on the background to the forthcoming Ben Uri exhibition
AMSTERDAM MUSEUM SHOWS OFF ITS SYNAGOGUES Judy Jaffe-Schagen reports
ARTS IN ISRAEL
FROM THE DYBBUK TO BEST FRIENDS Linda Ben Zvi tells the story of theatre in Israel
STORYTELLING
STRANDS OF STORYTELLING Derek Reid celebrates a key part of the fabric of Jewish cultural life
MIRIAM'S CUP Maria Bywater on a new addition to the telling of the Passover story
BOOKS
Kate McLoughlin reviews the latest Cynthia Ozick novel Judith Mirzoeff reads and hears Einstein's own words Lynda Harris on an anthology about motherhood Paul Gross reviews two books that search out the real Israelis Marge Clouts on the last of Richard Zimler's trilogy JR Young Readers: The Mystery of the Dead Sea Scrolls
POETRY
POETRY CHOICE Liz Cashdan chooses poems by Ruth Trilling and Esta Leftonl
POETRY REVIEW Songs from Bialik
FOOD
THE LIBYAN JEWISH KITCHEN Mali Tayar Zakeria
LETTER FROM ISRAEL
FALLING IN LOVE AGAIN Golda Zafer-Smith pays a return visit
LAST WORDS
LIBYAN JUDEO-ARABIC Raphael Luzon
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