 DEBATE
JEWS AND RACE
The authors of two recent books lock swords. Dr Gavin Schaffer,
author of Racial Science and British Society 1930-62 thinks we
should not research Jewish genetic origins. Prof David Goldstein,
author of Jacob’s Legacy: A genetic view of the Jewish people,
vigorously rejects his argument
JUDAISM
AND...
JUDAISM AND DARWIN
Prof David Weitzman traces the history of Jewish reactions
to Darwin’s theory of evolution
JUDAISM AND CHILDREN: A KADDISH’L
Maureen Kendler writes about attitudes to children throughout
Jewish history with some surprising findings
TEL
AVIV 1909–2009
TIMELINE
Jack Lukeman outlines the history, starting with Jaffa’s
early years, right up to the 2009 centenary
MEMORIES
Miriam Brill writes about being a child in Tel Aviv in
the years preceding independence
Neve Tzedek Judith Cooper-Weill writes about first Jewish
settlement outside Jaffa’s walls and its recent gentrification
TRIBUTE TO A VANQUISHED CASINO
Dror Burstein writes about the ‘Waves of Spring’
restaurant
WHITE CITY
Gloria Deutsch on Tel Aviv’s Bauhaus architecture
TODAY’S TEL AVIV
Janet Levin takes a Friday afternoon stroll
MAYOR WITH A MISSION
A profile of Ron Huldai
PLACE/NON-PLACE
Dalia Manor on South Tel Aviv as seen by artists
MY TEL AVIV
Thirty-somethings from different parts of the city give their views
THE REAL JAFFA AND A CITY FOR ALL ITS RESIDENTS
Susan Loewenthal Lourenço writes about the city
of Jaffa beyond what the tourist sees and about how
residents are starting to make their views felt
HISTORICAL MUSEUMS OF TEL AVIV
A selection of smaller museums
NEW MUSIC FOR A NEW NATION
Tomer Lev on the rise and fall of the Mediterranean School
PLEASE DO TOUCH!
Deborah Freeman interviews director, actors and interpreters
at the unique theatre company for the deaf-blind, Na Lagaat
NEVER MIND THE PLAY – ENJOY THE AUDIENCE
Tim Roseman on what is behind the amazing popularity
of theatre in Tel Aviv
THE DANCE EXPLOSION
Liora Malka Yellin suggests why the city’s dance
companies are doing so well on the world stage
FRESH PAINT
Angela Levine visits an Art Fair designed to showcase
Israel’s younger artists
FRANK MEISLER
Debby Elley on the Jaffa-based sculptor whose works are
sought after the world over
ART
EPSTEIN’S BIBLE
Estelle Lovatt on Epstein drawings which caused a scandal
in their day and are now on show in Birmingham
MUSIC
SO HOW WAS THE MUSIC OF THE BIBLE?
Abigail Wood disentangles evidence and conjecture
COMMISSIONED BY THE RABBI
Malcolm Miller on a concerto commissioned from Ben
Woolf to tell the history of Belsize Square synagogue
THEATRE
MY PINTER
Mike Leigh and Arnold Wesker tell what
Harold Pinter meant to them and Judi Herman
talks to Pinter’s close friend, Henry Woolf
BOOKS
Golda Zafer-Smith talks to A B Yehoshua
about his latest novel Friendly Fire
David Clark reviews the Jewish Book Week session Figuring
the Human
Deborah Brooks reviews Rhyming Life and Death
by Amos Oz; Marge Clouts reviews God’s
Elect by Frank Shapiro
Tamar S Drukker looks at Hebrew Writing of the First
World War by Glenda Abramson; Golda Zafer-Smith
reviews Valley of Strength by Shulamit Lapid
Judith Mirzoeff reviews Songs for the Butcher’s
Daughter by Peter Manseau
YOUNG READERS
Joel Coussins reviews Ausländer by Paul
Dowswell
POETRY
POETRY CHOICE
Liz Cashdan chooses poems by Lynette Craig
and Barbara Saalfeld-Edwards
Please click HERE for details of how
to submit poems to JR
POETRY REVIEW
FOOD
THE CHEF’S TEL AVIV
Janet Levin talks to celebrity Israel Aharoni
about the new Israeli cuisine
REVIEW OF THE DINING HALL IN TEL AVIV
LAST
WORDS
THE KITBAG QUESTION
Tamar Drukker on the English army words now part of the
Hebrew language |
