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Maureen Lipman with her husband Jack Rosenthal
Jewish Quarter, Vilnius
Photo: Norma Cohen
Idan Reichal, whose project includes Israeli and Ethiopian musicians
The Kibbutz Dance Company
Mountain-River-Light by Dorrit Feldman, painting combined
with digital print, 2004
A newstand in Vilna. Illustration from Words on Fire (Layzer Ran
Collection, courtesy of Faye Ran)
SOAPBOX
MUSLIMS AND JEWS
Lucien Gubbay looks at Muslim Jewish relations in a historical perspective
and draws lessons for the future
THE
JR INTERVIEW
MAUREEN LIPMAN
The actress talks about her career, her Jewishness and her late husband
Jack Rosenthal
JUDAISM
AND...
JESUS AND JUDAISM
Vivian Silverman explains just how Jewish Jesus was
THE JEWS OF LITHUANIA
TIMELINE
Aubrey Newman
THE JERUSALEM OF JEWISH ART
Roza Bieliauskiene
LIVING IN PRE-WAR VILNIUS
Fania Brantsovksy
IN SEARCH OF ROOTS
Norma Cohen visits Vilnius and Jonava
CREATIVITY CONTINUES
Norma Cohen talks to writers Marcus Zingeris and Violeta Palcinskaite
ADOMAS JACOVSKIS
Roza Bieliauskiene on the contemporary artist
THE COMMUNITY TODAY
Saul Issroff
AT VILNIUS'S YIDDISH INSTITUTE
Norma Cohen talks to a former partisan
Nicole Taylor takes a Yiddish course
MUSIC
CLASSICAL CD REVIEW
Malcolm Miller reviews Eli Zion – from St Petersburg to Jerusalem:
Music from the ‘New Jewish School’ with Jascha Nemtsov and David Geringas
and An Die Musik – A Musical Journey with Ralph Kohn
ISRAEL’S HOMEGROWN POP
Gaby Wine surveys the rich diversity of popular music in Israel – from
Chava Alberstein to Idan Reichal and MC subliminal
DANCE
REACHING THE SUN
Malcolm Miller is bowled over by the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company’s
new work
THEATRE
HAT TRICK
Young Israeli playwright, Dafna Rubinstein, and her three plays showing
in England this summer
TUNNEL VISION
Beverley Cohen reviews a project which brings Muslim and Jewish youngsters
together
ART
SEEING THE LIGHT
Angela Levine on the new spiritual trend in Israeli art and the work of
Israel Hadany, Dorrit Feldman, Eran Ehrlich, Zelig Segal, Gali Canaani,
Ada Vardi and Natan Dvir
THE THREE-DAY WEEKEND
Vitaly Komar explains the philosophy and aims of the new work he brings
to the Ben Uri in August
BOOKS
YIDDISH ON THE WING
Alexandra Mankowitz shares her enthusiasm for Yiddish with Aaron Lansky,
author of Outwitting History
THE STORY OF YIDDISH CIVILISATION
Barry Davis reviews Words on Fire. The Unfinished Story of Yiddish
by Dovid Katz and Yiddish Civilisation. The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten
Nation by Paul Kriwaczek
EAST END TAPESTRY
David Russell reviews An Acre Of Barren Ground by Jeremy Gavron
and East End Chronicles by Ed Glinert
CRYPTIC AND CLEVER
Kate McLoughlin on Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly
Close and Deborah Smith on Alan Isler’s Living Proof
ESCAPIST RELIEF
My Life in Israel and Other Stories by Debbie Morgenstern reviewed
by Marge Clouts. The Healthy Jewish Cookbook by Michael Van Straten
reviewed by Janet Levin
JR YOUNG READERS
The Adventures of Jeremy and Heddy Levi by Yaffa Ganz reviewed
by 10-year-old Nancy Luz Toff
FOOD
A TASTE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN
Stephanie Segal reports on a food conference in Jerusalem and brings back
a recipe
LETTER
FROM ISRAEL
VIEW FROM AN ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVIST
Adela Gertner on the growing interest in animal welfare in Israel
LAST
WORDS
WHO IS A LITVAK?
Dovid Katz helps you to guess