Elisa Bray

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Marty Supreme reviews round-up: Timothée Chalamet tipped for Oscars glory with comparsions made to De Niro and Pacino

Rave reviews have been pouring in for the Jewish star’s performance as Marty Mauser in Marty Supreme

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Timothée Chalamet stars as ping pong champion Marty Mauser in new A24 film 'Marty Supreme'. (Photo: A24)

I’m a Zionist but my parents are not – and it really hurts

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Steve Levi-Kallin, John Matts, Kalliopi Mitropoulou, Josh Breslaw and David Orchant of Oi Va Voi.

Bristol venue accepts ‘mistake’ in Oi Va Voi cancellation and admits band was treated differently due to Jewish heritage

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Tania Black and Rabbie Rose Prevezer (Photo: Marc Shelkin)

Creatives launch venture to promote Jewish arts

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When David Bowie fantasised about being Hitler

Bowie, the Sex Pistols, John Lennon: all flirted with Nazi imagery. Elisa Bray speaks to the author of a new book which examines the rock world’s fixation on fascism

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November 13, 2025 11:03

Badge of dishonour: some of the rock and pop stars who flaunted swastikas. Top right: author Daniel Rachel

Sarah Hoover memoir ‘The Motherload’ to be adapted for TV

The book lays bare the author’s feelings of despair, rage, guilt and anxiety as a new mother

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November 11, 2025 17:10

Mum's the word: Sarah Hoover and her book Photo: Beowulf Sheehan

I’m so scared of giving birth in a UK hospital, I’ve hired a Jewish doula

An Israeli woman who has lived in Britain for eight years and who had her first child here talks candidly about her terror of rising antisemitism in the NHS since October 7

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November 5, 2025 15:56

Confirmed concerns: the expectant mum said her GP agreed "the situation was not great" in the NHS

Claim that Ruth Posner was coerced to attend suicide clinic is ‘appalling’, say her friends

Members of ‘Ruth’s film club’ told the JC that the decision to end her life at the Swiss clinic was hers, not that of her husband

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November 5, 2025 14:09

Claim that Ruth Posner was coerced to attend suicide clinic is ‘appalling’, say her friends

Pregnant Jewish women are enlisting doulas to keep them ‘safe’ when they give birth with the NHS

Mothers-to-be are employing the services of Jewish doulas for the birth of their babies ‘to have someone on their side’ amid a wave of reports about antisemitic NHS staff

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November 4, 2025 16:02

Pregnant Jewish women are enlisting doulas to keep them ‘safe’ when they give birth with the NHS

Oi Va Voi release new song for diaspora Jews who ‘feel unheard’

The band were cancelled by two venues due to pressure from activists back in May

3 min read

October 31, 2025 09:00

Steve Levi-Kallin, clarinettist and vocalist in Oi Va Voi (Photo: Bram Versteeg)

The choral angels who sing for the dying

Since being established just over a decade ago, Companion Voices has now grown to 13 groups around the UK

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October 29, 2025 12:18

The choral angels who sing for the dying

The Wanderers: ‘The grass is really not always greener on the other side’

Playwright Anna Ziegler on her new work about two very different Jewish marriages

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October 22, 2025 12:06

The Wanderers: ‘The grass is really not always greener on the other side’

Hit Israeli series Fauda is reportedly being adapted into a film

The Netflix series will be adapted for the big screen next year, according to Israel’s Channel 12

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October 22, 2025 11:44

Filming for the fifth season of Fauda is currently underway

Children’s mental health in the UK is ‘an emergency’ Luciana Berger tells JC event

Exploring digital technology’s impact on children’s mental health, the event also featured Nova Eden, who spearheaded the campaign for smartphone-free schools in Barnet

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October 21, 2025 14:58

Luciana Berger and Nova Eden, pictured at the JC's 'Parenting in the digital age' event

Eli Sharabi’s book, Hostage, hits number 10 in the UK bestseller list

The memoir recounts Sharabi’s 491 days in captivity in the hands of Hamas

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October 20, 2025 12:55

Freed: Eli Sharabi (centre) with Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Polish President Karol Nawrocki at the March of the Living at Auschwitz, in April

Police question woman who cut down yellow ribbons commemorating the hostages

The ribbons were cut from railings in Muswell Hill on the eve of the two-year anniversary of October 7

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October 10, 2025 09:46

Police question woman who cut down yellow ribbons commemorating the hostages

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Elisa Bray

Latest from Elisa Bray

Marty Supreme reviews round-up: Timothée Chalamet tipped for Oscars glory with comparsions made to De Niro and Pacino

I’m a Zionist but my parents are not – and it really hurts

Bristol venue accepts ‘mistake’ in Oi Va Voi cancellation and admits band was treated differently due to Jewish heritage

Creatives launch venture to promote Jewish arts

More from Elisa Bray

When David Bowie fantasised about being Hitler

Sarah Hoover memoir ‘The Motherload’ to be adapted for TV

I’m so scared of giving birth in a UK hospital, I’ve hired a Jewish doula

Claim that Ruth Posner was coerced to attend suicide clinic is ‘appalling’, say her friends

Pregnant Jewish women are enlisting doulas to keep them ‘safe’ when they give birth with the NHS

Oi Va Voi release new song for diaspora Jews who ‘feel unheard’

The choral angels who sing for the dying

The Wanderers: ‘The grass is really not always greener on the other side’

Hit Israeli series Fauda is reportedly being adapted into a film

Children’s mental health in the UK is ‘an emergency’ Luciana Berger tells JC event

Eli Sharabi’s book, Hostage, hits number 10 in the UK bestseller list

Police question woman who cut down yellow ribbons commemorating the hostages