 WHAT'S NEW
Poem by Polish Jew Julian Tuwim brings Jewish and Polish teenagers together in a new London-based project initiated by Olga Glaznik and Marta Kotlarska
Azerbaijan and Indonesia experience a renaissance in Jewish life
JEWS IN HM FORCES
MULTICULTURAL AND MULTINATIONAL
Emma Bondor talks to a young army captain about what it is like to be Jewish in the British army.
SERVING THE SERVICEPEOPLE
The Jewish Committee for HM Forces looks after the interests of Jewish servicemen
A JOB LIKE ANY OTHER
Janet Levin meets a Flight Lieutenant who became more observant after going on operations
LETTER FROM KANDAHAR
Flight Lieutenant Justin Salmon writes about his experiences in Afghanistan and celebrating Chanukah on his army base
KILLED IN ACTION
Paul Mervis, killed in action in 2009, is remembered
EDUCATION
Deborah Brooks investigates the choices parents are facing: what are the pros and cons of sending your child to a Jewish school and what have the new Free Schools got to offer?
THE JEWS OF ST PETERSBURG
TIMELINE
A PUBLISHING HUB
Alexander Frenkel outlines the ups and downs of Jewish life in the city, from th18th century to the present and explores the boom in Jewish publications in Hebrew, Yiddish and Russian in 19th-century St Petersburg.
THE ST PETERSBURG SOCIETY AND THE NEW JEWISH MUSIC SCHOOL
Jascha Nemtsov on the birth of the Society for Jewish Music and how it impacted on the evolution of Jewish music
GROWING UP IN ST PETERSBURG
Rachel Bayvel, Jascha Nemtsov and Lisa Zektser describe their personal memories of life in the city
Osip Mandelstam and Nobel Prize-winning Joseph Brodsky both lived in St Petersburg/Leningrad
SHUL LIFE 2010
A revival of religious life has been taking place in
St Petersburg. Janet Levin visits the newly renovated Great Choral Synagogue and Sha'arai Shalom, a progressive community
AN-SKY, PUSHKIN'S NANNY AND THE REVIVAL OF JEWISH LIFE IN ST PETERSBURG
David G Roskies describes the Jewish cultural revival of the 1980s and 90s, rooted in the ethnographic work of An-sky
CULTURAL REAWAKENING
Janet Levin meets Alexander Frenkel, founder of the JCC in
St Petersburg, and visits the Adain Lo summer camp with its dynamic founder, Eugenia Lvova
TO STAY OR TO GO?
Documentary filmmaker Alexander Gutman talks about the dilemma of leaving his beloved St Petersburg for a better life in an unknown land
ARTISTS OF THE PGISHOT
Regina Khidekel's piece is about a contemporary group of
St Petersburg artists who gather together to explore their identity by studying Torah and Jewish texts
FILM
UKJFF ON TOUR
Judi Herman's film reviews: Yankles is the funny story of a baseball team of yeshiva students, and Berlin 36 is about the Nazi regime forcing Jewish athlete Gretel Bergmanncompete at the 1936 Olympics
THEATRE
JUDENFREI
Judi Herman talks to Kate Glover, author of a new play about the hardships of two Jewish lawyers in 1938 Germany
MUSIC
DREAMS OF COEXISTENCE
Malcom Miller in conversation with composer Tsippi Fleischer, whose new opera Oasis envisions Arabs and Jews living peacefully together
ART
ISRAEL'S MODERN ACADEMIST
Dalia Manor assesses Ludvig Bloom's place in mid-twentieth century Israeli art
PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES
Angela Levine meets creative Judaica designer Ken Goldman
MEZUZAHS RE-IMAGINED
A glance at the mezuzah designs in the newly published book 500 Judaica, as part of the launch of the Judaica 21competition
BOOKS
ONE PERSON'S BOOK WEEK
Janet Levin gives a taster of Sunday events at the Jewish Book Week
REVIEWS
David Herman reviews Wandering Soul, a biography of
S An-sky, and Jewish Renaissance in the Russian Revolution
Martin Sugarman's Fighting Back reviewed by Ross Bradshaw
Saul Bellow Letters reviewed by Gerald de Groot
Sara Shilo's Falafel King reviewed by Tsila Ratner
Agi Erdos reviews Being Jewish and Doing Justice by
Brian Klug
Vesna Domany-Hardy reviews The Jews of San Nicandro by John A Davis
Judith Mirzoeff reviews Roland Camberton's Rain on the Pavements
Deborah Smith reviews We Had it So Good by Linda Grant
David Clark reviews Person of No Nationality by Ruth Barnett
POETRY
Liz Cashdan chooses a poem by Anna Fojtel and reviews new collections by Norman Kreitman and Michael Baron
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PEARLS OF ISRAEL
Nitza Felix visits the charming vegetarian village of Amirim in the Galilean hills and talks to its founder, Yehudi Carmeli, about the struggles of setting up a new community
FOOD
FROM BOLA D'AMOUR TO BAKLAVA
Jane Gerson provides a history of English Jewish cookery books and explains how they reflect the changes taking place within Anglo-Jewry
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