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Elisa Bray

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Kindertransport

Dance performance outside Liverpool Street Station to mark 85 years since Kindertransport

Forty local young people from Jewish, refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds will be performing

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From Here On dance performance, about the Kinderstransport, which will be shown outside Liverpool Street Station (Photo: Good Chance/Gecko/Malachy Luckie)

Leon Pein and Dr Shara Cohen outside Buckingham Palace where they attended the King's garden party in May

Couple launch kosher food parcels to support the Jewish community

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Full cast announced for new play What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank

Full cast announced for new play What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank

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Precious handover: (Left to right) Rabbi David Maxa, Andrew Keene, Viljamas Zitkauskas and Rabbi Tanya Sakhnovich (pic: Susannah Fields)

From London to Lithuania: a Torah scroll brings communities together

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The ‘Jewish Beatles’ sing for the community to come together (right now)

Rabbi Akiva, Bar Markovich, Asaf Flumendorf and chazan Jonny Turgel will be rocking out in September

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August 28, 2024 16:04

The Jewish Beatles: Chazan Jonny Turgel, Asaf Flumendorf, Rabbi Akiva Rosenblatt and Bar Markovich

Sophie Says: the children’s books making a difference

The self-published book series by Esther Marshall has so far sold more than 25,000 copies

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August 28, 2024 13:01

Esther Marshall with two books from her Sophie Says series (Credit: courtesy)

Review: At Home Farm, Nick Mulvey: A magical night of food and music

This was the second night featuring the Mercury Prize-nominated indie-folk artist

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August 22, 2024 12:26

A warm presence: Nick Mulvey playing at Home Farm

Israeli theatre company The Train Theatre nominated for two Offie awards

Once Upon a World is the most popular production from the puppet troupe and came to JW3 in July

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August 20, 2024 15:30

Once Upon a World is performed by fellow dancers Aviv Horovitz and Yuval Finkelstein

Artist who packed his emotions about October 7 into a painting

David Breuer-Weil is now using his artwork to memorialise victims of October 7

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August 14, 2024 06:34

David Breuer Weil with Morning (overall size 376 x 688cm, acrylic on canvas, image courtesy of Sam Roberts). The artwork aims to depict the intense emotions surrounding October 7

The song I wrote for The Tattooist of Auschwitz is my most profound ever

The song Barbra Streisand sang for the TV series is up for an Emmy. I meet the man who wrote its lyrics

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August 7, 2024 13:52

Music to one's ears: Charlie Midnight in his studio

Father walks and writes to raise money for the charity caring for his son

Laurence Smith’s disabled son, Jeremy, has been living in a Norwood home since he was 18

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August 1, 2024 14:13

Laurence Smith and his son Jeremy, who is a resident of a Norwood care home (Photo: Laurence Smith)

Israeli-born author longlisted for Booker Prize

Yael van der Wouden’s book explores the legacy of the Holocaust

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July 31, 2024 09:31

'Exhilarating’ writing: Yael van der Wouden

Kids donate their hair to help young cancer patients

Cancer support charity Zichron Menachem holds bi-annual hair-cutting sessions

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July 29, 2024 17:25

Participants of Zichron Menachem's Summer Cut, who donated their hair to make wigs for children undergoing cancer treatment in Israel and the UK (Photos: Zichron Menachem)

Lawyers launch legal challenge against ICC decision on Netanyahu arrest warrant

The ICC move was a ‘violation of every norm of international law’ argues one of the NGOs behind the challenge

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July 26, 2024 09:07

Karim Khan KC

‘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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July 24, 2024 13:22

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

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

Hamza Howidy, 26, moved to Germany last August after being detained and beaten by the terror group

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July 23, 2024 11:39

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

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