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BUILDING BRIDGES
HAND IN HAND
Susan Lowenthal-Lourenço talks to pupils and teachers at the Jerusalem Hand in Hand bilingual school where Arab and Israeli children learn together.
NOW THEY LISTEN TO US
Judi Herman interviews Ali Abu Awwad and Robi Damelin about the Parents Circle - Families Forum where relatives of those killed in the conflict work together for peace
OTHER BRIDGING PROJECTS
A sample of other projects where Arabs and Jews work together to promote mutual understanding and respect
JUDAISM AND..
JUDAISM AND THE COMIC STRIP
Bryan Schwartz explores the strong and often surprising links between the holy writings of ancient Jewish tradition and comic books
THE STORY OF ROSH PINAH
TIMELINE
Nadav Keller summarises the history of the village, founded in 1878
BARON EDMUND DE ROTHSCHILD
The benefactor who made mistakes
A ROSH PINAH CHILDHOOD
Shoshana Sharkey on growing up in the 40s
STORIES OF THE VILLAGERS
Nitza Felix talks to Nili Friedman, Avi Keller and Rebecca Gottfried and hears stories of the pioneers
YEHOSHUA BEN ARIA
The rebel who became a community leader
A SCHOOL TO LEAD THE WORLD
The first school to teach everything in Hebrew – which also taught astronomy and gardening
ARAB NEIGHBOURS - WHAT HAPPENED
Janet Levin draws on villagers’ memories and historians’ accounts
RESTORATION AND RENAISSANCE
Nitza Felix talks to Joram Meiri and Maimon Abuktar about how the villagers’ took their future into their own hands
FOR VISITORS
Things to see and do and places to stay and to eat
MUSIC
THE ROAD OF ISRAEL’S COMPOSERS
Malcolm Miller surveys the development of classical music in Israel and explains how composers have arrived at a style in tune with the country’s contemporary pluralistic identity and its political reality
PASSOVER SONGS
A review by Malcolm Miller of the 15 Passover Songs on Yehezkel Braun’s CD Choral Works
ART
ONE PAGE THAT TELLS SO MUCH
Eli Abt looks at one page of the Barcelona Haggadah to discover much about its patron and his times
A VERY DIFFERENT GERMANY
Ruth Taylor Jacobson describes the experience of exhibiting her works in Siegen in Germany
DANI KARAVAN - SCULPTOR OF LIGHT AND MEMORY
Angela Levine visits the Retrospective of the internationally successful Israeli sculptor
POET PAINTER ISAAC ROSENBERG
Rachel Dickson and Sarah MacDougall on the Ben Uri exhibition which highlights the artistic work of Rosenberg side by side with the work of his fellow ‘Whitechapel Boys’ including David Bomberg, Gertler and Kramer
BOOKS
FOUND IN TRANSLATION
Nicholas de Lange talks to Golda Zafer-Smith about the work of S Y Yizhar, about his relationship with Amos Oz and about the joys and challenges of the process of translation
S Y YIZHAR IN BRIEF
A summary of the life of “the greatest Hebrew poet of Israel’s landscape
WHO ARE THE HEROES NOW?
Quotes from Israeli academics: Shlomo Avineri, Menahem Brinker and Hannah Naveh at the session ‘Heroes and Anti-Heroes’, Jewish Book Week 2008
CLASSIC CHOICE
Golda Zafer-Smith reviews Exodus
REVIEWS
Let It Be Morning Sayed Kashua, talking to the enemy Avner Mandelman, Beaufort Ron Leshem, A History of Modern Israel Colin Shindler, All the Sad Young Literary Men Keith Gessen, Dealing with Satan Ladislaus Löb, Kasztner’s Train
Anna Porter, The Rowing Lesson Anne Landsman, Lindmann Frederic Raphael
Reviewers: Beverley Cohen, Geoffrey Paul, David Herman, Peter Falush. Marge Clouts, Deborah Brooks
BOOKS IN BRIEF
Judith Mirzoeff
POETRY
POETRY REVIEW
Collections by AdamTaylor, Joanna Ezekiel and Penny Feinstein
POETRY CHOICE
Liz Cashdan selects poems by Theresa Turk and Barbara Saalfeld-Edwards
Please click HERE for details of how
to submit poems to JR
LETTERS
LETTER FROM THE LOWER EAST SIDE
New York correspondent David Russell ranges from the Red Rabbi to Orthox boxer Salita
VIEW FROM A COMMUNITY ADVOCATE
Barbara Epstein on how Community Advocacy empowers the disadvantaged of Israel
FOOD
PESACH IN ISRAEL
Melody Amsel-Arieli talks to four women with backgrounds in Algeria, Bessarabia, Kurdish Iraq and Morocco about their Pesach cuisine
LAST
WORDS
THE CREATION OF MODERN HEBREW
Tamar Drukker on how new words are created in an ancient language