The wedding of the year?

Let me tell you of a promising courtship, although it may be premature to talk of marriage.

The partners may not be the most glamorous couple in town and their union would not command a spread in Hello.
But talks are said to be progressing for a closer relationship between the Board of Deputies and the Jewish Leadership Council.

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Sacks ends on full house

The United Synagogue has had no trouble selling its tribute event to Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, an interview with him before an audience conducted by Sir David Frost in May. All 2,000 tickets were snapped up in three days.

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Post-pesach pizza for Styles

Harry Styles, whose penchant for kosher Chinese has been noted here before, was seen eating again in Golders Green this week. On Tuesday night, he joined the crowd eager for their first taste of post-Pesach chametz at supervised pizzeria, Pizaza. At this rate, he will be getting a column in the Really Jewish Food Guide.

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Facing music with Baron Cohen

David Baddiel recently revealed he is working on a musical of his 2010 film comedy, The Infidel, about a Muslim cabbie who discovers his mother was Jewish. His collaborator is Erran Baron Cohen, best known for his soundtracks for brother Sacha’s films of Borat and The Dictator. “We’re having fun writing songs about circumcision and fatwas,” Erran said.

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Last orders at terminal bar

Leafing through Hertsmere Council’s online planning, as one does from time to time, I noticed an application for Bushey Cemetery.

As the west side of the cemetery is rapidly filling up, the United Synagogue will be using the eastern part of the site more in future and intends to instal some new facilities.

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Round the world in 800 days

It is a trip of a lifetime — a two-year global jaunt to visit all 962 of the World Heritage Sites.
Destinations include Masada, the old quarter of Acre, the White City of Tel Aviv (famed for its Bauhaus buildings, below), the biblical site of Megiddo and the rose city of Petra.

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More IDF than Red Army

The Russian political party United Russia put up billboards to celebrate Defender of the Fatherland Day, a public holiday commemorating the creation of the Red Army in 1918. It displayed a soldier waving from the turret of the tank.

There was just one problem, according to website StrategyPage: the tank was a Merkava (right) and the soldier was an Israeli.

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