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Harold Pinter is one of Book
Week's guests
Lucie Skeaping
(photo: Sim Cannetty-Clarke)
Stained glass window Dark clouds and the suns's rays
Karl Duldig 1972
WHAT'S NEW
A FILM RENAISSANCE?
EAST END CELEBRATED
A WOW OF A BOOK WEEK
AWARDS GALORE
SOAP BOX
IS CULTURE THE KEY?
Lionel Gordon and David Clark find common ground in two new studies which suggest that most Jews are now finding their identity in cultural participation
THE JR INTERVIEW
SKEAPING TO THE MUSIC
Golda Zafer-Smith talks to the star of The Burning Bush and Radio 3 presenter about her work and her return to her Jewish roots
COMMUNITY
NIGHTINGALE
Erica Gordon explores the class conscious history of the largest and most progressive home for the elderly in Europe. Janet Levin visits its amazing art room and enjoys a book club meeting run by Edwina Currie
THE JEWS OF AUSTRALIA
Margaret Gutman on where the community is now. Erica Gordon on its convict origins and colourful history. Yvonne Fein takes a stroll on Melbourne's Carlisle Street. Helen Beer writes about the thriving Yiddish culture. Don Perlgut surveys the Jewish film scene. The late Karl Duldig, sculptor and painter, is profiled.
JUDAISM AND...
JUDAISM AND CLONING
The eminent specialist in medical humanities, Michael Baum, is pleasantly surprised by the views expressed in a lecture given by Rabbi Professor Yitzchok Breitowitz
Jewish Krakow
(photo: Barry Lazar)
HERITAGE
AT RISK
David Russell on the unique Kehillas Ya'akov synagogue in London's East End and its colourful cast of characters
CITY SPOTLIGHT: JEWISH KRAKOW
Barry Lazar on how he came to Kraków with a heart of stone - and fell in love. Rafael Scharf remembers his youth in the city. Michal Galas outlines the history. Marcel Manson makes a tour of the synagogues and makes some recommendations for tourists - including the Jewish Festival in June/July.
ART
EITHER OR, NEITHER NOR
Curator Alona Pardo on Jewish Artist of the Year Award Winners' new work at the Ben Uri Gallery
Lloica Czackis
MUSIC
INDIAN + JEWISH =
Josephine Burton talks to Rohan Kriwacek and John Human about their cooperation in creating a "Third String" from Indian and Jewish music
YIDDISH TANGO
Lawrence Joffe writes about Lloica Czackis and the melodies that link the ghettos of Europe with the night clubs of Buenos Aires
SONS OF SEPHARAD
Malcolm Miller reviews the new CD by the remarkable ensemble of Sephardi cantors
FILM
Reviews of The Pianist and the Video/DVD Uprising
Jossi and Jagger
(photo: Yossi Tzveker)
Isaac Rosenberg
ARTS IN ISRAEL
VOICES FROM THE MARGINS
Gali Gold explains how talented and daring directors are depicting, and indeed contributing to, profound changes in Israeli society
BOOKS
REVIEWS
Everything is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer
Sacred Eliette Abécassis
Abraham: In Search of the Father of Civilisation Bruce Feiler
The Undark Sky Geoffrey Raisman
From Here to Obscurity Yoel Sheridan
When Life Becomes History Geoffrey Perry
Coralena Michael Mail
ARTIST, POET, SOLDIER
Erica Gordon on the life and work of Isaac Rosenberg, to coincide with the Imperial War Museum exhibition Anthem to Doomed Youth
YOUNG READERS
Pupils at King David School, Liverpool and JFS in London review I Have Lived A Thousand Years by Livia Bitton-Jackson
POETRY
Liz Cashdan chooses from readers' submissions
The Gossamer Wall by Micheal O'Siadhail
FOOD
Restaurant Review Nehama Patkin on Melbourne's long-time Jewish favourite, Sheherazade plus the recipe for its favourite dish, cholent
LETTER FROM ISRAEL
VIEW FROM THE KIBBUTZ 3
Reggie Pearlson describes the changing regime on Kvar Hanassi - and comments on life in Israel now