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SUMMER 2003

  WHAT'S NEW

Two Awards forJR
Bristol Attracts the Stars
What is Your Religion? Do we need to know?
New Music Lovers’ Website
Crossing the Divide - Palestinian and Israeli writers meet
Roll of a Lifetime - Conversion to Orthodoxy on roller skates

  SOAP BOX

SECULARISM - the debate continues
Rabbi Jeremy Rosen and a few wise quotes

  THE JR INTERVIEW

CATCHING KOPS
Golda Zafer-Smith finds some surprises in the course of her interview with playwright Bernard Kops

  AS OTHERS SEE US

VIEW OF AN ALIEN WORLD
Fiona Smith’s view of the Jewish community from ‘the outside’

  JUDAISM AND...

JUDAISM AND THE COSMOS
Rabbi Ariel Abel on why there is a crater on the Moon called Rabbi Levi - and much more

  HERITAGE

MIDDLE STREET SYNAGOGUE AT RISK
Gordon Franks tells the story of on one of Brighton’s greatest architectural treasures

  THE JEWS OF ARGENTINA

Clara Faigelbaum de Weisz reports on the history of community: on the agricultural settlements and the Jewish Gauchos; the many different waves of immigration; life in Jewish Buenos Aires in the early 20th century; the white slave trade (when the pimps set up their own synagogue) and the more recent ups and downs of fortune.
Diana Wang tells of the tribulations of Holocaust survivors and the bombings of the 1990s that shook the community Jo Gottschalk describes the current plight of the community and what is being done
Lloica Czackis on Argentina's Jewish Musicians and a new initiative to bring Argentinian Jews to Birmingham Find out More: Information for the Jewish tourist in Buenos Aires

  ART

JACOB, SARAH AND WILLIAM
Ruth Artmonsky and Rachel Dickson on how Sarah Kramer became the muse for two artists
ISRAEL AT THE BIENNALE
Angela Levine describes how Israel was way ahead of Damien Hirst - live sheep in 1978!

  MUSIC

SINGERS OF THE SYNAGOGUE
Cecil Bloom on history of the chazzan
DYNAMO GERALDINE
Janet Levin meets the force behind the Jewish Music Institute

  HUMOUR

HOW TO MAKE ISRAELIS LAUGH
Gloria Deutsch interviews Yaacov Kirschen, creator of Dry Bones
BUILDING THE TOWER OF BAGEL
Penelope Solomon on the trials and tribulations of creating a Jewish comedy show

  FILM

BROKEN WINGS
Gabriela Pomeroy reviews the Israeli film

  BOOKS

20TH CENTURY WRITERS
Erica Gordon on Bialik, the Father of Hebrew Poetry

REVIEWS
Talking to the Other by Jonathan Magonet (reviewed by Muslim writer Humera Khan)
Manja Anna Gmeyner
The Book of Splendour Frances Sherwood
From the Inside Ruth Wyner
The Alphabet of Paradise Howard Coope

  POETRY

Liz Cashdan chooses from readers’ submissions and reviews Cutting Pomegranates by Miriam Halahmy

  YOUNG READERS

Stones in Water Donna Jo Napoli

  FOOD

The Jewish Kitchen Clarissa Hyman - Short review and recipe
Sami’s Kosher Restaurant reviewed by Golda Zafer-Smith

  LETTER FROM ISRAEL

A ‘MINE’ OF MY OWN
Diane Wyshogrod, winner of the award for the best professional article in the Board of Deputies 2003 Community Magazines awards

  LAST WORDS

YIDDISH VERBAL PHRASES - Barry Davis