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WHAT’S
NEW
Simcha On The Square
At The City Lit
Movers And Shakers
Ark Launch In Prague
Who Is Reading JR?
HERITAGE
TOUR PAGE
Report on JR Baltics tour and new tours coming up
DEBATE
JEWS SHOULD ALWAYS SUPPORT ISRAEL
Clive Lawton supports the motion: Brian Klug
opposes
THE
JR INTERVIEW
Writer EMANUEL LITVINOFF talks to Golda Zafer-Smith
JUDAISM
AND...
JUDAISM AND MASSAGE
Len Goldstone discovers massage has a long tradition
in Jewish life
HERITAGE
THE ART OF HAVDALAH
Michele Klein on the history of the objects associated with the ritual
to mark the close of the sabbath
THE
JEWS OF HACKNEY
HISTORY
Melvyn Brooks gives the key dates and describes the Jewish
history of Hackey Downs School
VICTORIA PARK
The Yiddish street song
ALAN KANE
Norma Cohen talks to singer Gloria Kane
about the career she shared with her famous brother
FORMATIVE YEARS
The Hackney years of Alexander Baron, Harold
Pinter, Arnold Wesker, Marc Bolan
and Helen Shapiro
A WORLD APART
Janet Levin asks Melanie Danan some
searching questions about the charedi community
MARCHING IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION
Felicity Ellis remembers gentle extremist, Jack
Tendeter
THE RADICAL ALTERNATIVE
Gail Chester writes about the innovative secular and
progressive communities
WHY I CHOSE TO LIVE HERE
Jonathan Freedland on why his home is now in Hackney
MUSIC
YIDDISH MUSICALTHEATRE GIVEN GRAND NEW VOICE
Barry Davis on two Milken recordings
ART
ZIK
Angela Levine writes about the Israeli performance art group whose materials
are fire and ice
SIMEON SOLOMON
Julia Weiner on the Jewish work of the artist whose career was destroyed
by an intolerant society
FILM
FILM FESTIVAL EXCELS ITSELF
Preview of UKJFF 2006 and review of Sixty Six by Judi
Herman
BOOKS
DOES THE AMERICAN JEWISH NOVEL HAVE A FUTURE?
Donald Weber on the up and coming American Jewish writers
CLASSIC CHOICE
Children of the Ghetto
Edna Nahshon on Israel Zangwill and
his greatest work
SINS OF OMISSION
David Herman criticises Soviet and Kosher, a
book about the Ersatz Jewish culture introduced by the Soviet regime.
Author Anna Shternshis responds
OTHER REVIEWS
Paul Gross reviews Colin Shindler’s book The
Triumph Of Military Zionism: Nationalism And The Origins Of The Israeli
Right; Kate McLaughlin reviews Sweet and Low
by Rich Cohen and The Earl of Petticoat Lane by Andrew Miller;
Judith Mirzoeff reviews Death of a Monk by Alon
Hilu
YOUNG READERS
A list of books appreciated by our young reviewers over the past two years
POETRY
Liz Cashdan chooses poems by Joan Michaelson and Marylou
Grinber
Michael Baron reviews Wanda Barford’s new collection
Please click HERE for details of how
to submit poems to JR
FOOD
CULINARY INSPIRATION
Janet Levin reviews Jewish Traditions by Marlene
Spieler and The Jewish Princess Cookbook by Georgie Tarn and
Tracie Fin
CHOPPED LIVER FOR AFTER
Jokes about food submitted by Alexander Newton and Annette
Halfin
LETTER
FROM ISRAEL
VIEW FROM HAIFA 3
Miriam Brill on the impact of the recent attacks
LAST
WORDS
LATIN LEANINGS
Michael Gillis on the influence of Latin on the Hebrew
language