 WHAT'S NEW
ORTHODOX IN OXFORD TO CALL FOR GREATER INCLUSIVENESS
Conference organised by the Oxford community to discuss the present and future of Modern Orthodoxy in the UK
MEDICAL NEWS FROM ISRAEL
Hatzalah volunteers now use ‘ambucycles’ in order to get to patients faster and more easily
Clown doctors make a big difference in Israeli hospitals
POPULAR VIOLINIST BECOMES JMI DIRECTOR
Sophie Solomon has replaced Geraldine Auerbach as director of the Jewish Music Institute
BOOK WEEK NEWS
The latest changes and updates to Jewish Book Week events
MUSIC
SOUNDS OF ISRAEL – SOUNDS OF THE WORLD
Abigail Wood reports from the Jerusalem International Oud Festival and features Roza Eskinazi, the Tarshiha Orchestra, Amal Murkus and Aynur Dogan
CD CHOICE
World music CDs by Dudu Tassa and Etti Ankri and a Jazz CD by Avishai Cohen recommended by Abigail Wood
THEATRE
TRAVELLING LIGHT WITH NICHOLAS HYTNER
Judi Herman interviews the director about his new production at the National Theatre and about his Jewish and gay identity
ART
JUDAH PASSOW IN LONDON
Dorothy Bohm and Judi Herman talk to the photographer about his forthcoming exhibition No Place Like Home at the Jewish Museum London
KIEFER IN TEL AVIV
Angela Levine visits Anselm Kiefer’s site specific exhibition launching a new wing at the Tel Aviv Museum
ESTHER REIMAGINED
Lilian Broca explains her Purim-themed mosaic project as featured in her new book The Hidden and the Revealed
JUDAISM AND... WITCHCRAFT
What do the ancient Jewish sources have to say about sorcery? By Maureen Kendler
WITCHES AND RABBIS
Agi Erdos selects talmudic passages about women witches
HOLOCAUST MEMORY
WHAT WE SHOULD TELL THE CHILDREN
David Herman’s views on how survivors should communicate with their families about the Holocaust
POLAND CONFRONTS ITS JEWISH PAST
Joanna Michlic analyses the complex attitudes in Poland today towards the memory of the country’s Jews
LETTER FROM ISRAEL
AGRICULTURE UNDER FIRE
Gerry Kelman describes the practical difficulties of living near Gaza
THE JEWS OF YORKSHIRE
LEEDS
LEEDS TIMELINE by Nigel Grizzard
THE BURTON STORY
Nigel Grizzard on how a immigrant who arrived in Britain aged 15 built a company that provided work for so many of Leeds’ Jews and financial support for so many of its institutions
MY DINING-ROOM TABLE
Cheryll Berrebi’s reminiscences about growing up Jewish in Leeds
THE REBBE IN THE MORNING – THE REVIE IN THE AFTERNOON
Anthony Clavane on the important role Leeds United has played in the lives of Leeds Jews
LEEDS ARTISTS
Jacob Kramer – Gill Komoly remembers the painter whom she knew in her childhood
Joash Woodrow – The artist who was only discovered in his old age
Antonia Stowe – The sculptor whose work is all over Leeds
CELEBRATING CREATIVITY
Helen Frais and the Leeds community’s 150th-birthday celebrations
PUTTING LEEDS ON THE MAP
Dame Fanny Waterman is interviewed by Janet Levin about her life and the creation of the Leeds Piano Competition
A GOOD PLACE TO COME BACK TO
Ellie Ruhan, Jason Kleiman and Simon Phillips tell why they love the city and its Jewish community
RADIO JCOM
Janet Levin finds the Leeds local community radio excellent listening
CRICKET – AND MORE
An interfaith project including sports, caving and working for the environment
CATCHING A COMMUNITY
A review of Simon Glass’s new film on the Jews of Leeds
BRADFORD
BRADFORD TIMELINE by Nigel Grizzard
Albert Waxman reminisces about the Bradford Refugee Hostel
Betty Brodie remembers her youth in Bradford
RECOVERY AND RENAISSANCE
How the Muslims of Bradford saved the Jews from having to close down their synagogue
THE SILVERS AND SALTAIRE
Today Jonathan Silver’s renovated Salts Mill houses over 500 Hockney paintings
ELSEWHERE IN YORKSHIRE
HARROGATE
The community described by Philip Morris
A LONG WAY TO THE NEAREST SHUL
The story of five generations of the Iraqi Sulman family in Scarborough
Judy Weleminsky describes her youth in the only Jewish family in Pontefract
SHEFFIELD AND YORK
Timelines by Nigel Grizzard
BOOKS
WHAT IS JEWISH ART?
Julia Weiner reviews Jewish Art – A Modern History by Samantha Baskind and Larry Silver and compares its approach with My Grandparents, My Parents and I by Edward Van Voolen and The Human Figure and Jewish Culture by Eliane Strosberg
RIGHTEOUS BRITISH GENTILES
Judith Mirzoeff reviews Heroes of the Holocaust by Lyn Smith
TORAH FOR EVERYONE
David Weitzman’s review of Torah: A Beginner’s Guide by Joel S Kaminsky and Joel N Lohr and Open-Minded Torah by William Kolbrener
DIFFERENT WAYS OF TELLING THEIR STORY
Agi Erdos looks at memoirs: Tailors on Both Sides by Anita Canter, Of Exile and Music by Eva Mayer Schay and The Bristle Merchant’s Daughter by John Salinsky
POETRY
Liz Cashdan chooses a poem by Josephine Jaffa and reviews
Eve Grubin’s Morning Prayer
Please click HERE for details of how to submit poems to JR
LAST WORDS
HOUSES AND TENTS
Tamar S Drukker explores how Israel’s tent revolution enriched the meaning of these words
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