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Mike Leigh
Clive Lawton
Photographs by
Tatiana Santos Mendez
Inessa Galante
Portrait of a Cantor
by Joash Woodrow
Hirsh Goodman
Brothers by Ibrahim Qulaghasi
MOVERS
AND SHAKERS
Baroness Susan Greenfield tells just how Jewish she is; Arnold Wesker sees a renaissance; Sagi Hartov – the Israeli Embassy's impressario cellist; Stephen Leas makes a synagogue a music centre; Mo Nazam and Serena Leader find Berakah means the same in Hebrew and Arabic
THE
JR INTERVIEW
MIKE LEIGH COMES OUT
The only interview Mike Leigh has given about his new play and his Jewish
identity
AND THE CAST?
The cast of Two Thousand Years on what being in the play has
meant for them
LEARNING
THE LIMMUD PHENOMENON
Clive Lawton answers questions on how the movement which has shaken the
cobwebs out of Anglo-Jewry came about and where it's going
What you need to know to decide whether Limmud is for you
Creative developments in Glasgow and South London
THE
JEWS OF CUBA
TIMELINE
Gideon Mailer takes us back to the days of the inquisition and Jay Levinson
surveys the comings and goings of the 20th century
ADAPTING TO TROPICAL LIFE
The different experiences of Ashkenazi and Sephardi immigrants –
from Robert Levine's Tropical Diaspora
FROM POLAND TO "LITTTLE AFRICA"
Ruth Behar tells her grandmother’s story
CASTRO'S JEWS?
Arturo Lopez Levy on how the community adapted to the Revolution and why
it is now experiencing a renaissance
ARTURO'S STORY
Lopez Levy on the rediscovery of his roots and his work on improving US-Cuban
relations
DR JOSE MILLER
Richard Smith talks to the community leader
THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF TATIANA SANTOS MENDEZ
Remarkable photos of the present community
FIND OUT MORE
Tips for the scholar and tourist
MUSIC
CLASSICAL CD REVIEW
JEWS WHO MAKE THE WORLD SING
Rodney Greenberg celebrates the plethora of Jewish songwriters and suggests
why there were so many
JEWS WHO SING TO THE WORLD
Stanley Henig brings the greatest of Jewish opera singers into focus
INESSE GALANTE
Malcolm Miller talks to the Latvian diva who stormed Moscow with Yiddish
song
REVIEW/PREVIEW
David Russell on Two Thousand Years; Preview of UK Jewish Film
Festival; Judy Herman on Live and Become
Dash Arts season: Judy Herman reviews the play What we did with Weinstein;
and the exhibition of Israeli phtography, Conflicted; David Asserson
previews Algerian singer, Maurice el Medioni
ART
REDISCOVERED ARTIST: JOASH WOODROW
Nicholas Usherwood tells the remarkable story of the Leeds artist whose
enormous body of work has recently been rediscovered
RE-VIEWING THE CHILDREN’S HOUSE
Angela Levine on an exhibition by artists whose work is highly critical
of their kibbutz upbringing
SCIENCE
HOW JEWISH WAS EINSTEIN?
Hanoch Gutfreund reveals Einstein’s changing attitude to his Jewish
identity
BOOKS
Marge Clouts on Hirsh Goodman’s memoir; Peter Falush on a new history of the Jews; David Russell on Arnold Wesker’s new novel
JR YOUNG READERS
Eight-year-old Isabel Benjamin reviews Abraham Regelson’s The
Dolls’ Journey to Eretz-Israel
POETRY
REVIEWS
George Szirtes' Reel reviewed by Michael Baron; Liz Cashdan on
pamphlets by Harold Rosen and Jaqueline Karp
POETRY CHOICE
Poems by Joan Michelson and Myra Sklarew
FOOD
A TASTE OF CUBA
Two recipes by Michael van Straten
NOVELLINO
The new Golder’s Green restaurant reviewed by Golda Zafer-Smith
LETTER
FROM ISRAEL
PAINTING A DREAM
Kitty Cohen on the story behind the exhibition of Israeli and Palestinian
children’s art coming to London
LAST
WORDS
Persian Impressions by Michael Gillis