READERS' COMMENTS

Jewish Renaissance does the near-impossible: it rescues English Jews from the curse of the parochial, re-uniting us with the wider, grander, older and newer, world of Jewish thought and event. Essential reading if you're Jewish or if you're not.
Howard Jacobson

I love Jewish Renaissance. Thank you so much. It is like a beacon of light in the Jewish discourse.
Betty Pinto Skolnick

I've really enjoyed Renaissance in the years I've been receiving it - never before have I consistently read a magazine from cover to cover!
Barbara Dean

I love your magazine. I love the variety, the historical perspective, the liberal, humanitarian, social justice stance of it. You never know what you are going to find when you turn the page.
Susan Wolf

Congratulations on your wonderful Manchester edition. What a tour de force! It’s fascinating and rich and diverse and I am sure it will be of interest to many.
Anne Webber, Co-Chair of the Commission for Looted Art
in Europe and President of Jewish Book Week

A fascinating magazine, always beautifully produced and a pleasure to read. It has opened my eyes to the condition of Jews in corners of the world that I never knew they inhabited! and to a wealth of cultural events in London and in the regions.
Baroness Ruth Deech

I keep meeting people who enthuse about JR for both its design and content. And I'm full of admiration every quarter.
Sir Arnold Wesker

Read your latest issue cover to cover. Pretty damn good show. I've much enjoyed it. I was pleased to be up there with the rest of 'em. Congratulations.
Janet Suzman

I think that more than ever before, the subject of Jewish Renaissance is of vital importance. In the last few generations the Jewish people has gone through so many events, developments and changes that many of us don’t really know where we stand or even, who we are any more. This is certainly so in Israel, and I would imagine elsewhere in the Diaspora. It should be a time for regeneration in every aspect of Jewish life.
That’s why your magazine is so important.
Ralph Dobrin, Jerusalem

When it comes through the letterbox I think, ‘There’s my best friend’.
Ann Rau-Dawes

Jewish Renaissance is far and away the best magazine on Jewish culture I have seen, really well laid out with a wide range of articles.
Hazzan Jack Kessler, Golden Medina Music, Philadelphia

I really do enjoy Jewish Renaissance and also the events calendar received by e-mail where I see all the amazing events I am missing back in the UK, being stuck out in the very Far East. But at least I know what to plan for when making trips back to London.
All strength to your editorial powers!
Professor Glen Timmermans, University of Macao

I read your magazine right the way through. Then I read it again. It is that good.
Allen Bordoley

It's great to see pleasure spreading over someone's face when they are first introduced to your mag... I still get it every time...
Joe Mankowitz

I really love your publication - it is of such high quality and always contains articles in which I am greatly interested. It is one of the best publications I know. I love the style. I love the content. I think you really capture the spirit of the diverse communities you feature. I read it from cover to cover.
Dr Ralph Kohn

Congratulations on your magazine. It's a breath of fresh air!
Jeremy Newmark, Jewish Leadership Council

Your magazine is amazing. I look forward to it, I wait for it. It’s truly inspirational. I wished you published it every week.
Karin Elkorchi

It’s the only publication I get regularly that I actually look forward to opening.
Jackie Bat-isha

JR is a fantastic vicarious experience, enabling me to visit other cities, explore with like-minded people, read about society and arts in another country (UK), all expressed so beautifully by extremely talented writers, who almost physically take me with them.
Devera Witkin, New York

I LOVE your magazine and it is of great comfort to me whilst living in Tauranga, New Zealand and being one of only a very few Jews in this city.
Miriam Brown

Thank you for the latest issue of the magazine. It's a real joy to read: so much news and information that doesn't seem to be available elsewhere; in-depth commentaries and analysis; and, above all, it makes me feel part of 'where it's all happening'.
Binnie Yeates

Thank you! You are doing excellent work in keeping Jewish culture visible and viable in the UK in these troubled times. Thanks for the emails and you
can count on my continued support.
Tony Coren

I used to be a teacher and then I made a practice of never giving a mark of more than nine out of 10. But I give 10 out of 10 to Jewish Renaissance.
Jenny Mendel

It is always such a pleasure to receive your "Update". Thank you so much for giving us this "thrill" while waiting for the next issue of JR. My first subscription year is coming to an end, but of course I shall continue to be a faithful reader of your wonderful magazine.
Anna Sala, Florence

Congratulations on an outstanding issue! The depth and breadth of content are stunning.
Saul Issroff

The whole issue really well edited and JR is destined to become one of the top international Jewish mags of quality.
Professor Dovid Katz

I want to thank you enormously for your wonderful magazine. I am only sorry I didn’t know about it before. At last I read clever, clear, intellectual thoughts and problems many ask themselves. Yes, what is being Jewish - the language, religion, the land, the people that share your life and views... The interview you did with Jonathan Freedland is captivating - I read it several times. Not to speak of the Qumran scrolls, Chagall, etc. I am full of it, it made me happy. Just imagine: when your whole life you were denied your culture and history, the discovery of it is making life meaningful.
Rachel Kostanian, Director, The Vilna Gaon Museum

It’s such a treat to receive each issue of Jewish Renaissance.
Lena Stanley Clamp, Director, Jewish Policy Research Institute

Bravi! I loved all the South Africa stuff, which was interesting, varied, and well-selected. The Antony Sher interview wonderful (saw Primo when I was in London). And the Michael Sinclair article on democratic giving very intriguing. Good art coverage, and altogether good stuff! We don't really have anything this good in the States.
Tom L. Freudenheim, Washington DC

It’s wonderful. It’s the best thing that has happened (in the Jewish world) for a long time.
Joanna Mitford

Congratulations on putting together such a lively magazine. This is just what the Jewish community needs.
Anthony Julius

WOW!!!!!!
I just received the latest edition - What a superb job you did on the subject of the Jews of China. Again, thanks for the fabulous series of articles; as always you magazine continues to educate and reveal our wonderful history.
David Welsh, Calabasas, California

I just got your magazine. It is smashing! The “special” on Iraqi Jews was so interesting - the different articles centering on this one topic - the history, music, etc., and even the food! It is a stunning publication, and certainly a keeper. I had my doubts that it might be too totally London centered for those of us here in the US heartland, but that is not the case at all!
............My second issue just arrived -- I am sitting here immersed in it even though I must get dressed and get on that plane to Mexico -- this issue is as good as the last! I love it! I try to tell friends about it -- will keep on doing so -- maybe can get synagogue library to subscribe -- it's outstanding!
Joan D Levin - Chicago

I was fortunate in acquiring a complimentary copy of the Summer 2003 issue that was being generously handed out at the recent Giora Feidman recital at Union Chapel, and I was utterly delighted with it. Jewish Renaissance is extremely well written and presented, beautifully produced and printed, on excellent quality paper, and its coverage of Jewish culture is very comprehensive indeed and simply wonderful. Informative, stimulating, and often thought-provoking, Jewish Renaissance is something that ought to have been around in the UK for much, much longer. Its mission statement is a fine and noble one... Jewish Renaissance deserves support and really should not be allowed to fail.
Richard Sharma, Rainlore's World of Music

I think it's a 'fab' magazine .... I particularly like its inclusive and non-partisan approach!
Judy Woolfe

It is good to find a magazine which deals with such a wide range of subjects and presents the arts with such a fresh approach. Simply put, it has panache and style.
Bernard Gould

We compliment you on the magazine - a really good read, wide-ranging and informative and visually too most inviting.
Anna and Joseph Horovitz

I think your magazine is excellent. I am not Jewish but I am studying Theology and Religious Studies at college and I find it most useful. Keep up the good work.
Shalom
Janet Neilson

I found it very uplifting. Surely the word ‘renaissance’ is very apt to describe the intent of your articles. It exemplifies the very best within Judaism.
Cynthia Godfrey