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Bridging the divide: comedians Bob Alper and Ahmed Ahmed
Jo Wagerman evacuated with her father on leave from the
army
The Big Organ Grinder by Eduard Bersudsky
Oi Va Voi
Tel Aviv Bauhaus
The Arab-Hebrew Theatre Company
WHAT'S
NEW
Reports on Muslim/Jewish initiatives in London, preview of Jewish Book Week 2004 and reports on visits of two Israeli educators
SOAP
BOX
FEWER MACHERS, MORE UNTERSCHLEPPERS PLEASE
Samuel Warshaw puts a tongue in cheek case for a course for followers
DEBATE
SHOULD JEWISH CHILDREN GO TO JEWISH SCHOOLS?
Layman Clive Lawton argues for and Rabbi Jonathan Romain against
THE
JR INTERVIEW
LESSONS FROM JO WAGERMAN
Jo Wagerman, JFS head and first woman chair of the Board of Deputies had
a childhood of neglect and abuse. Golda Zafer-Smith finds out how it shaped
the person she became
HERITAGE
THE ZION MULE CORPS
Peter Marsh on a little known episode of Jewish military history
JUDAISM AND.....
JUDAISM AND SECRET SOCIETIES
Ariel Abel investigates the origins of Jewish Freemasonry and other secret
societies
COMMUNITY – THE JEWS OF GLASGOW
Sir Jeremy Isaacs introduces a feature about the history and culture of a vibrant community. Included is Ida Schuster Berkeley on Avrom Greenbaum and the Jewish Institute Players, a tribute to the Gorbals by Chaim Bermant and pieces on artists Benno Schotz, Hannah Frank, Marianne Grant, Alma and Lyn Wolfson and Eduard Bersudsky of Sharmanka, and musicians including Lev Atlas and Sheila Osborne. See below for poets of Glasgow, food and Scottish Yiddish.
MUSIC
YOUNG MUSICANS HIT THE HIGH NOTES
Jewish musicians in their 20s are doing remarkably well . Deborah Smith
on Oi Va Voi, Lawrence Joffe on Los Desterrados, Gaby Wine on conductors
Ilan Volkov and Benjamin Wolf. ALSO CANTOR Yitzhak Meir
Helfgot
ONLY IN AMERICA
Malcolm Miller reports from the remarkable New York Festival which saw
the commissioning of many new works and stunning concerts in the city’s
most prestigious venues
FILM
HAREWOOD AND HOLLYWOOD
Judith Mirzoeff reviews films by Ronald Harwood
FESTIVAL
Sonia Zafer-Smith reviews the highlights of the Autumn’s UK Jewish Film
FestivaL
ARTS IN ISRAEL
TEL AVIV BAUHAUS
Gloria Deutsch explains why Tel Aviv is now a World Cultural Heritage
Site
ART
FORGIVE AND DO NOT FORGET
Erica Gordon on the background to the Jenny Stolzenberg’s procession of
ceramic shoes at the Ben Uri
BOOKS
ANTI-SEMITISM ANALYSED
Irene Newton reviews three books
NOVELS FROM ISRAEL
Reviews of Yehoshua and Horn novels by Judith Mirzoeff and Marge Clouts
BOOK REVIEWS
Festival Cookery Marlene Spieler’s book reviewed by Stephanie
Segal
Bernice Rubens Divided Loyalties reviewed by Golda
Zafer-Smith
Jewish composers Peter Falush on a new compendium
YOUNG READERS
Letters from Rivka by Karen Hesse
POETRY
GLASGOW DREAMING
Ross Bradshaw on the four Glasgow poets Ivor Cutler, Philip Hobsbaum,
Ellis Sopher and Arthur Jacobs
POETRY CHOICE
Liz Cashdan chooses from readers' submissions
WHEN IS A POET A JEWISH POET?
Michael Baron on Henry Shukman
FOOD
RECIPES
Scottish Jewish Strudel and Haggis
REVIEW
Cossechok, Glasgow
LETTER
FROM ISRAEL
VIEW FROM JAFFA 2
Susan Lourenço on a theatre and a bookshop
LAST
WORDS
SCOTTISH YIDDISH?