Get prepping for Purim (it starts on the evening of Monday 6 March) with Dani Silver’s pick of festive activities – featuring something to suit every member of the family…
A sphere of polished stainless steel shines proudly in London’s late-winter sun, reflecting the greenery and buildings of the slice of London that surorunds it. The piece is known as SISTER, a new installation by Jewish Londoner David Breuer-Weil, and it sits in Hanover Square, where…
The poems in Jeremy Robson’s eighth book of poetry, Chagall’s Moon, range from the heat of Alabama to a cool night in London, from a universe where Chagall’s lovers fly in a cloudless sky to a place where Beethoven, Picasso and Billie Holiday rub shoulders. Written in the aftermath of…
It is unlikely many Iranian Jewish women are involved in the ongoing protests in Iran. Historically they have been silent and invisible and there has always been an almost total absence of literature by Jewish women in Iran because it endangered the community. But in exile there has been…
When I was five years old, I found a song-thrush nest. Gleaming blue eggs with tiny black flecks in a clay-white cup. It was in a small bush in the churchyard that lay across the road from our family house at the edge of Sheffield…
This month, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the National Library of Israel (NLI) announced the completion of the digitisation of the papers of Chaim Grade, leading Yiddish writer, and his second wife…
Everything we do is a process that involves some concession and compromise. That’s the premise of this brave collaboration by Israeli ambassador and Middle East peace negotiator Daniel Taub and writer/producer Dan Patterson (Mock the Week), with narration by TV presenter Clive…
Director Sam Mendes' electrifying family epic The Lehman Trilogy opens on a spare set of glass, steel and designer furniture. It’s so bright and sparklingly modern you almost need shades. Yet this pristine office scene, created on a revolving stage by set designer extraordinaire Es Devlin…
The concept of a dance show set to Leonard Cohen’s music was approved by the man himself when it was first conceived by then artistic director of Ballets Jazz Montréal, Louis Robitaille. The Canadian singer-songwriter requested the inclusion of more recent songs as well as the iconic…
The annual Wingate Literary Prize, worth £4,000, shines a light on the book that best translates the idea of Jewishness to the general reader, and now we know which of the 12 longlisted entries are in with a chance of bagging the…
This autumn the Museum of London (MoL) in Docklands is launching Fashion City: How Jewish Londoners Shaped Global Style, a brand new exhibition about the capital's pivotal fashion makers, designers and retailers throughout…
Is there anything more that another exhibition about the Holocaust could possibly offer the viewer? In this instance, absolutely. Seeing Auschwitz brings together over 150 vivid photographs, mainly taken by the SS, to show the atrocities of Auschwitz from a different perspective: that of…
New York comedian Alex Edelman has form this side of the pond. He's appeared on Live at the Apollo, The John Bishop Show and Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled, but I know him mostly through radio. A shortened version of his debut show Millennial, which won Best Newcomer at the 2014…
How does a middle-class Jewish boy in 1950s America discover a passion for filmmaking? The Greatest Show on Earth, of course. After a revelatory experience watching the award-winning Cecil B DeMille drama at the cinema with his parents, Sammy (played wonderfully as a teenager…
In 2009, a few years after graduating from the Jerusalem Academy of Music, Israeli composer and conductor Tom Cohen founded the Jerusalem Orchestra East & West (JOEW). His mission? To create “a new musical…
