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World Mental Health Day

Jami combats loneliness by launching a community befriending scheme

The charity Jami is starting the new service on World Mental Health Day at its Head Room café in Golders Green

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Jami is offering a new befriending service in its Headroom Cafe in Golders Green (Photo: Jami)

In partnership: Nathan Englander and Patrick Marber Credit: Matt Crockett

What Nathan Englander talks about when he talks about his Anne Frank play

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The ‘Iron Nation’ fund putting steel back into Israel’s start-up economy

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Naomi Verber, chief executive of EcoJudaism, cleaning Dollis Brook in Hendon as a "Reverse Taschlich" initiative (Photo: EcoJudaism)

Jewish eco-charity volunteers start campaign to clean Hendon river

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‘In art therapy, you just pour your feeings on paper’

Art therapists Yafit Nahari and Simona Rotman Shats tell the JC why they are holding a creative session to mark the first anniversary of October 7

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October 7, 2024 16:01

Studio Pituach art therapists (l-r) Simona Rotman Shats and Yafit Nahari (Photo: Studio Pituach)

Why survivors of the October 7 massacre are tattooing over their scars

In the Jewish state, kippot-wearing Israelis, men and women in their 70s, and Jews, Muslims and Christians are trying to reclaim their damaged bodies by sinking ink into their skin

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October 2, 2024 11:32

Pop singer and tour manager Melvyn J Taub mourned

He worked in the advertising department for the Jewish Chronicle in the early 1980s, the same decade in which his music career took off

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October 1, 2024 11:55

Performing Just Wanted I Always Wanted in 1982 on Top of the Pops with Mari Wilson and the Wilsations (Melvyn J Taub is centre of the trio of backing singers)

The shows you won’t want to miss – on stage and screen

Here are some of the best (Jewish-adjacent) shows that TV, film and theatre have to offer in October and November

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September 30, 2024 17:21

Autumn highlights: (left to right) Cable Street, Giant and Nobody Wants This. (Photos: Jane Hobson, Netflix. Compiled by Jordi Pol)

The brilliance of beige: How a palette of neutrals packs a positive punch

Interior designer – and new mum – Elana Ilan welcomes the JC into her home of warm muted tones

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September 30, 2024 13:12

Slim Shaker-style kitchen in unconventional terracotta clay shade, with antique brass finishes and quartz top counters.

The Vagina Business: Taking the stigma out of women’s health

Marina Gerner’s new book uncovers myriad health innovations for women, offering eye-opening solutions to the ways our medical system snubs female pain

8 min read

September 30, 2024 12:40

Why we’re sharing our delicious soup recipes for good

Meet the foodbank founders hoping to raise funds with their new cookbook

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September 27, 2024 09:30

Why we’re sharing our delicious soup recipes for good

Charity publishes guides to help people with eating disorders over Yom Kippur

Noa Girls said the day could be particularly challenging

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September 25, 2024 13:57

Noa Girls has published booklets to support people with or recovering from an eating disorder to help them through Yom Kippur. There are also booklets for carers, communal leaders and medical professionals (Photo: Noa Girls/thejc)

Jesus College hosts first Jewish wedding in its 500-year history

Newlyweds reveal how they fused two traditions to create their special day

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September 18, 2024 15:04

Jesus College hosts first Jewish wedding in its 500-year history

The Talmud is very clear on Oasis ticket pricing

Jewish law and custom make plain that exploitative or unjust price inflation are both morally wrong

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September 18, 2024 11:17

A new mural depicting Liam and Noel Gallagher of Oasis, created by Manchester street artist Pic.One.Art., on the side of the Sifters Record store in Manchester, after the band announced they are due to reunite (Getty Images)

‘My mission to help motherless Jewish daughters like me’

The death of her mum at the age of 15 is the defining event of Lynda Dullop’s life. Now she is bringing women together to share their own similar stories of loss

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September 11, 2024 16:57