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‘As an Israeli, I felt really unsafe in the creative industry’

Neta Gracewell is bringing ‘a dark feminist comedy’ to the Camden Fringe

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Rehearsals for Second Hand Problems, directed by Neta Gracewell, with Marcia Tucker (left) and Molly Cass O'Donnell

Student demonstrators occupy the pro-Palestinian "Gaza Solidarity Encampment" at Columbia University in New York City (Photo: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Activist from Gaza says Western pro-Palestine protesters give terrorists ‘good PR’

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US-Israeli actress Natalie Portman arrives for the 81st annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills, California, on January 7, 2024. (Photo by Michael TRAN / AFP) (Photo by MICHAEL TRAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Natalie Portman says her grandfather changed his name to sound less Jewish

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Felicity Kendal (SOPA Images Limited/Alamy Live News)

I’m one of those Jews Felicity Kendal thinks is wrong

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Airbnb suspends Oxford host who refused to allow an Israeli woman to stay

The host said the woman could not rent her property because she ‘cannot condone the war’

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July 8, 2024 15:15

Airbnb suspends Oxford host who refused to allow an Israeli woman to stay

Artist makes Jewish history on the walls of JW3

Leon Fenster speaks to the JC about what inspired his eye-popping mural, which is being unveiled this week

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July 8, 2024 12:20

In Leon Fenster's mural, Queen Elizabeth I is depicted watching the trial of her Jewish doctor Rodrigo Lopez, who was found guilty of plotting to poison her (Photo: Leon Fenster)

The Israeli puppeteers working with children devastated by October 7

Ahead of their London shows, meet the troupe behind an uplifting puppet show

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July 4, 2024 10:33

The Israeli puppeteers working with children devastated by October 7

Jazz musician to raise funds for Jewish Women’s Aid

Joshua Jaswon will be performing in a concert in memory of close family friend and former JWA chair Frances Turner

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June 26, 2024 07:21

Saxophonist Joshua Jaswon will be playing a concert in memory of Frances Turner, a family friend and former chair of JWA (Photo: Krisztian Sipos)

Obituary: David Seidler

Writer whose personal story shaped his biggest film success

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June 24, 2024 16:13

WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA - FEBRUARY 27: Writer David Seidler arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar party hosted by Graydon Carter held at Sunset Tower on February 27, 2011 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Craig Barritt/Getty Images)

The morality of the war in Gaza is crystal clear, says philosopher-rabbi

Rabbi Shlomo Brody expresses horror over global reaction to Israel’s hostage rescue operation

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June 19, 2024 09:31

The morality of the war in Gaza is crystal clear, says philosopher-rabbi

Fat-shamed in life and death, this is the truth about Mama Cass

Mamas and Papas singer Cass Elliot suffered abuse over her weight – and she didn’t die choking on a ham sandwich, says her daughter

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June 18, 2024 17:41

Proud Mama: Cass Elliot with her daughter Owen Elliot-Kugell

Tony Awards 2024: Big winners Stereophonic and Merrily We Roll Along are Jewish

Daniel Radcliffe and Jeremy Strong were the other lead winners in the 77th awards ceremony

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June 18, 2024 15:38

Daniel Radcliffe at the 2024 Tony Awards (Photo by Bennett Raglin/Getty Images)

Muswell Hill Jewish nursery is saved from closure

Yeladenu will open as Gan on the Hill in September

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June 7, 2024 10:28

Rachel Brahams, one of a group of parents who came up with a plan to keep the nursery at Muswell Hill Synagogue open (Photo: Rachel Brahams)

‘The Shoah silenced him, but now his piano sings again’

Singer-songwriter Roxanne de Bastion’s new book tells the story of how her grandfather – and his piano – survived the Holocaust

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June 6, 2024 15:05

Music to my ears: singer songwriter Roxanne de Bastion and her grandfather, Stephen de Bastion, before the war

London tattoo artist has booking cancelled because he’s Jewish

Adam Silas has received messages such as “you will all burn in hell soon”

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June 5, 2024 14:45

Tattoo artist Adam Silas, who avoids politics on his business account, receives frequent antisemitic abuse

Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood refuses to give in to BDS pressure to cancel tour with Israeli artist

The guitarist called the ‘silencing’ of Israeli artists ‘unprogressive’

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June 5, 2024 10:55

Musician Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead (Photo by Rich Fury/Getty Images for Coachella)

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