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Code Name Kingfisher ★★★★★

Code Name Kingfisher ★★★★★

Liv is a year-eight student in present-day UK. She's shy and uncertain and currently navigating between wanting to fit in and wanting to be herself. She's been tasked with creating a family tree, which leads to all sorts of problems when she realises her only port of call is her stern Bubbe…

Letter to Kamilla: Music in Jewish Memory

Letter to Kamilla: Music in Jewish Memory

This year is proving to be a busy and fruitful one for Mosaic Voices. Members of the resident choral group of New West End Synagogue have built on the success of the beautifully made and wonderfully atmospheric music videos they…

IWM London opens new Holocaust galleries

IWM London opens new Holocaust galleries

After two years in the making, the Imperial War Museum London is finally set to open its brand new Second World War and The Holocaust Galleries on Wednesday 20 October. At three times the size of their award-winning…

Getting Away With Murder(s)

Getting Away With Murder(s)

We're pleased to announce that after 18 years of trying, filmmaker David Nicholas Wilkinson has finally brought his documentary, Getting Away With Murder(s), to the big screen. It is thanks in part to a sizeable donation made by one Jewish Renaissance reader after they read our feature…

Once Upon a Time in Nazi-Occupied Tunisia ★★★★

Once Upon a Time in Nazi-Occupied Tunisia ★★★★

A schematic pitiless sun glares down on levels of woodblocks, standing in for sand as designed by Max Johns, on an unfortunate man apparently buried up to his neck. The figure standing over him explains that he has been…

Jewish Book Week Family Day

Jewish Book Week Family Day

BELIEVE IT OR SNOT, 11AM Get the day off to a slimy start with zoologist Dani Rabaiotti, who’ll be sharing fun – if gross – facts about nature’s gunk. Find out what on earth “hyena butter” is and whether or not you’d dare eat it, see if you can guess just how much goo a hagfish can spew…