Here’s a thought for Pesach. Reggae maestro Bob Marley(right), whose album Exodus is one of the all-time greats, may have had Jewish roots.

Online Jewish magazine the Tablet has suggested that his paternal grandmother was a Syrian Jewish Jamaican called Ellen Broomfield.

Is there no one who is not an honorary Israelite now? All the world’s a shteibl, as Shakespeare nearly said.

At the recent funeral of Maidenhead Reform Synagogue congregant Paul Jackson, one of the pieces of music played was Book of Dreams by Bruce Springsteen.

What was unusual was that the song was requested by the rock star himself.

Mr Jackson’s wife Robin and Mr Springsteen’s wife, Patti, go back a long way and the two families became friends.

David Breuer-Weil’s extraordinary new exhibition, Project 4, has earned a well-deserved extension for a further two weeks until March 24.

His large and explosively colourful canvases feature in the atmospheric setting of the Vaults, a labyrinthine network of tunnels near London’s Waterloo Station.

It’s certainly an unusual experience — and entry is free.

Over the years, Guinness has produced some of the most memorable TV ads. And its latest is certainly a bold addition to the genre.

Shot in black and white, it is about a magical clock which can make time fly or go backward in some European town in days of yore.

But listen carefully and the soundtrack will begin to seem oddly familiar. It is from the Hatikvah.

Teenage heartthrob Justin Bieber was singing in Manchester a few days ago.

After the gig, he decided to sample some of the city’s night life at a fashionable bar called Sankey’s.

You might have thought they would have laid out the red carpet.

But instead he was shown the door.

Pundits wondered if the club regarded itself as too cool for the Canadian pop star.

Out today is Lore, the new film by Australian director Cate Shortland, which is based on Rachel Seiffert’s book The Dark Room.

The plot follows the five children of a Nazi officer in the last days of the Second World War who are trying to reach their grandmother. On the way, they meet a Holocaust survivor who shows them photos.