 BUILDING
BRIDGES
LIVING TOGETHER – AGAIN
Daniel Gordon finds out how Chasid and Pole are getting
along, this time in Stamford Hill
JUDAISM
SUCH A FUSS ABOUT A LEMON
Maureen Kendler on the amazing history of the etrog;
how it has split communities and inspired writers
UNSUNG
HEROES
SUFFRAGETTES AND PEACE CAMPAIGNERS
Sonya Leff tells of the achievements of the Dutch doctor
Aletta Jacobs and Hungarian activist Rozika Schwimmer
THE
JEWS OF IRELAND
TIMELINE
Ray Rivlin tells the history of the Jews in Ireland from
the Middle Ages
DUBLIN AND ITS PERSONALITIES
Ray Rivlin on life on Dublin’s Clanbrassil Street
in Dublin and its “Robin Hood”, Baila Ehrlich
THE HERZOGS AND OTHER RABBIS
ARTIST HARRY KERNOFF
POLITICAL DUBLIN
The Jews and The Troubles, Bob Briscoe and other politicians
WAS LEOPOLD BLOOM A DUBLIN JEW?
Cormack O’Grada tells of his doubts
TEENAGE LIFE IN THE 1950S
Beatrice Sofaer-Bennett
IRELAND AND ITS JEWs
Marilyn Taylor, Geoffrey Wigoder and
Asher Benson
IN DUBLIN NOW
Janet Levin talks to Rabbi Zalman Lent
A MUSEUM WITH SOUL: THE IRISH JEWISH MUSEUM
Janet Levin
UP NORTH
Brian Robinson pays a nostalgic visit to Belfast
WARTIME KIBBUTZ
A refuge in the Ards for Kindertransport children
OUT WEST
Janet Levin meets Fred Rosehill in Cork
and Len Lipitch and Rich Gostyn in Schull
THERE IS NOTHING LIKE THIS DAME
Golda Zafer-Smith talks to Baroness Julia Neuberger
about being part-time Rabbi of West Cork
FACT FILE
Addresses and books
IRELAND’S FIRST JEWISH FESTIVAL
Janet Levin talks to founder Janusz Flakus
CINEMA
TALKING FILMS
Gali Gold, artistic director of the UK Jewish Film Festival,
on recent developments in Israel’s cinema
ART
LARGER THAN LIFE
Judi Herman reports on her meeting with eccentric artist
Robert Lenkiewicz – whose self-portraits are the
subject of a Ben Uri exhibition
EXHIBITIONS
NEW EXHIBITS TO KEEP THE PAST ALIVE
David Clark on Silent Messengers at Westminster
Synagogue, Liz Cashdan on The Journey at Beth
Shalom
MUSIC
IN ISRAEL
COMPOSER OF THE DESERT
Malcolm Miller talks to Michael Wolpe,
creator of the Sounds of the Desert Festival on how he brings together
classical and popular music
VERY POLISH AND VERY JEWISH
Geoffrey Álvarez on the composer Aleksander
Tansman
BOOKS
ERRI DE LUCCA
Helga Abraham meets the prize-winning Italian writer
who translates from Hebrew and Yiddish
REVIEWS
Strange Ways by Rokhl Faygenberg, Tales
of the Ten Lost Tribes by Tamar Yellin, The
Final Reckoning by Sam Bourne, Prisoners
by Jeffrey Goldberg, Checkpoint by Lisa
Saffron, Jewish Parliamentarians by Greville
Janner and Derek Taylor, The Believers
by Zoe Heller, Indignation by Philip
Roth, The Bagel: The Surprising History of a Modest Bread
by Maria Balinska, Bread: A Slice of History
by John Marchant, Bryan Reuben and Joan
Alcock
Reviewers: Judith Mirzoeff, Golda Zafer-Smith, Beverley Cohen,
Kate McLoughlin, David Herman, Peter Falush
YOUNG READERS
Torah For Teens by Jeffrey M Cohen reviewed
by Nancy-Luz Toff
POETRY
MAHMOUD DARWISH
Michael Baron pays a tribute to the Palestinian poet
POETRY CHOICE
Liz Cashdan chooses a series of poems by Deborah
Freeman
Please click HERE for details of how
to submit poems to JR
LETTER FROM ISRAEL
VIEW FROM THE SOFA
Gloria Deutsch on the changing faces on Israel’s
TV
LETTER
FROM THE EASTSIDE
BUT IS HE GOOD FOR THE JEWS?
David Russell takes the political pulse in shul and on
campus
LAST
WORDS
Y’IRISH
Irish Yiddish by Asher Benson and Marilyn Taylor
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