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Eva Hoffman
Self Portrait by Solomon Alexander Hart RA of Plymouth, the first
Jewish artist to achieve renown
Matisyahu
Detail from window by Roman Halter at North Western Reform Synagogue,
Alyth Gardens
Turn Left at the End of the World, one of the films touring Britain
Benny Bailey
THE
JR INTERVIEW
EVA HOFFMAN
Janet Levin profiles the writer who so precisely expressed the trauma
of migration and the second generation experience
CROSSING
CULTURES
CHOOSING TO BE JEWISH
Rob Mason gives a personal and not wholly positive view of the conversion
experience
HERITAGE
WAS THERE REALLY A WELCOME
Joanna Newman reports on a debate about what happened 350 years ago at
the Westminster Conference and asks whether the Jews were really welcomed
back to Britain
JUDAISM
AND .....
JUDAISM AND SEX
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach exults in Jewish permissiveness
JEWS
OF THE WEST COUNTRY
WE ARE DIFFERENT DOWN HERE
Frank Gent introduces today’s communities in Devon and Cornwall
TIME LINE
Erica Gordon traces the history of the communities from medieval times
and reveals some amazing personalities
PLYMOUTH SYNAGOGUE
The story of the second oldest synagogue in the UK and one of the most
beautiful
A TRIBUTE TO BENNY GOODMAN
Anthony Aggiss on the seaman turned community leader
INTELLECTUALS INVADE ILFRACOMBE
Helen Fry reports on an unexpected wartime community in North Devon
TU BESHEVAT IN TOTNES
Thena Kendall tells Matthew Rosen Marsh how she set up a new community
FIND OUT MORE
Further reading and contact details for the communities and the old cemeteries
MUSIC
LAUGHTER THROUGH TEARS
Judith Kuhn looks at what was behind the Jewish elements in the music
of Shostakovich
ISRAEL’S BEST TUNE UP FOR LONDON
Gabriela Pomeroy talks to the Jerusalem and Aviv quartets
THE REGGAE RABBI
Laoise Davidson joins the diverse audience at Matisyahu’s first
London concert
ART
WINDOWS OF MANY COLOURS 1
Judi Herman talks to architectural glass artist, Jude Sovin, about her
radical new design for the windows at Edgware Synagogue
WINDOWS OF MANY COLOURS 2
Sharman Kadish on the history of the use of stained glass in British synagogues
THE WILD AMERICAN
Sarah McDougall and Rachel Dickson on the life and work of Jacob Epstein
ART
IN ISRAEL
KADISHMAN’S SACRIFICE
To accompany a major retrospective of the work of the foremost Israeli
artist, Menashe Kadishman, Angela Levine explores his preoccupation with
sheep
FILM
FILM FESTIVAL TAKES TO THE ROAD
Reviews of films which are touring Britain
BOOKS
A survey of recent works on the
Holocaust; reviews of Matches by Alan Kaufman, Two Lives
by Vikram Seth, a chronological history of the Dreyfus affair, Beware
of God by Shalom Auslander, Disobedience by Naomi Alderman
and Anglo-Jewish Poetry by Peter Lawson
YOUNG READERS
Sheri Bernstein reviews Once by Morris Gleitzman
POETRY
Liz Cashdan selects poems by Derek Reid, Pamela Lewis and Teresa Turk and reviews collections by Tom Berman and Lotte Kramer
FOOD
LOOKING FORWARD TO PURIM
Stephanie Segal looks at cookery traditions from Italy eastwards and gives
a Greek recipe for Hamen’s Ears
LETTER
FROM ISRAEL
LETTER FROM A SOCIAL WORKER
Benny Bailey talks about his work supporting family workers in the Arab
community
LAST
WORDS
Greek Gleanings Michael Gillis