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CROSSING
CULTURES
WOMEN LEAD THE WAY IN MUSLIM-JEWISH UNDERSTANDING
Deborah Freeman reports on a ‘Show and Tell’
afternoon
Taniya Hussain attends a Jewish-Muslim study day
Janet Levin talks to Amineh Ahmed Hoti,
Director of the new Centre for the Study of Muslim-Jewish Relations
THE
JR INTERVIEW
MEETING AVIVAH ZORNBERG
Golda Zafer-Smith talks to the Torah scholar who brings
Freud, literature and philosophy to Torah study - and argues for more
diverse opportunities for the Orthodox
HERITAGE
THE HATIKVAH
Cecil Bloom on the unexpected origins of the Israeli national anthem
THE
JEWS OF ETHIOPIA
ETHIOPIA AND THE BIBLE
Geoffrey Ben-Nathan on the Judaic tradition that lingers
on
TIMELINE
Jack Lukeman with the history of the Beta Israel
RELIGIOUS PRACTICE
Alexander Knapp on the traditional ways
Pesach in Ethiopia and Sigd in Jerusalem
THE PROMISED LAND
Joanna Newman on the situation of the community in Israel
now
MUSICAL TRADITIONS
Alexander Knapp on the liturgical music of the Beta Israel
and modern Israeli interpretations of the Ethiopian tradition
THE MAHARIS
Melody Amsel-Arieli talks to a Beersheba family about
how they have adapted to Israeli life and goes to the wedding of the eldest
daughter
FIND OUT MORE
A selected reading list
STILL WAITING
Barbara Ribakove Gordon on the plight of the Jews who
still remain in Ethiopia
ART
THE BURNING BUSH THROUGH ARTISTS’ EYES
Shulamit Laderman shows how art enhanced the role of Moses in the Passover
story
FAMILY, FAITH AND RITUAL
Rachel Dickson talks to artists Julie Held
and Shanti Panchal
MUSIC
A BOLD TRADITIONALIST
Lex van Delden writes about his father, of the same name, who after working
in the resistance in Amsterdam, chose to compose in a modern yet tonal
idiom
YIDDISH
YIDDISH IN BRITAIN: A RENAISSANCE?
Heather Valencia writes about the explosion in Yiddish classes, performances
and new interpretations in recent years
BOOKS
WHEN TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION
Nigel Jarrett writes about the difficulties facing a
non-Jewish author who wishes to write on Jewish topics.
A TASTE OF BOOK WEEK
Janet Levin with a few gems from the 2007 Jewish Book
Week in London
CLASSIC CHOICE
Naomi Lightman on the change in attitudes towards Amy
Levy’s Reuben Sachs
REVIEWS
Paul Gross on Samir El-Youssef’s
The Illusion of Return; Marge Clouts on Jonathan
Wilson’s A Palestine Affair; Judith Mirzoeff
on David Maine’s The Book of Samson;
Erica Gordon on Marina Benjamin and
Naim Kattan’s books about life in Iraq; Michael
Baron on Victoria Glendinning’s biography
of Leonard Woolf ; Janet Levin on the
Encyclopaedia Judaica Second Edition
YOUNG READERS
Isabel Benjamin reviews Voyage by Adele
Geras
POETRY
POETRY CHOICE
Liz Cashdan selects poems by Miriam Hancock,
Jennifer Langer and Miriam Halahmy
Please click HERE for details of how
to submit poems to JR
LETTER
FROM ISRAEL
VIEW FROM A VOLUNTEER
Michele Klein
FOOD
A TASTE OF ETHIOPIA
Passover Food
Barbara Ribakove Gordon
A Shabbat Meal
Marlena Spieler
LAST
WORDS
AMHARIC AND HEBREW
Geoffrey Ben-Nathan