Elisa Bray

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Eating disorders

Charity launches guidebooks to support eating disorder sufferers over Pesach

The booklets from Noa Girls will advise medical professionals, parents and rabbis

3 min read

Festive meals and dietary restrictions can be very challenging for someone with an eating disorder (photo: Getty Images)

Former JFS pupil and Gordon Ramsay trainee wins restaurant cooking award

2 min read

Amy’s friends: ‘She was humble’

6 min read

The Jewish Care Sam Beckman Choir has reached the final of the Care Sector's Got Talent show (Photo: Jewish Care)

Jewish Care choir sings its way into the final of national talent show

2 min read

Back to Black: The Amy Winehouse film that polarised the critics

The Evening Standard and Daily Mail each allotted one star, while The Guardian praised its warmth

3 min read

April 10, 2024 14:02

Marisa Abela stars as Amy Winehouse in director Sam Taylor-Johnson's BACK TO BLACK

How Kabbalah and karaoke took me from science to music

Meet the scientist who found the answers he sought through music and Kabbalah, and has combined them to make his first album

5 min read

April 3, 2024 17:20

The opera fans who saved Jews from the Nazis

Meet the musician whose new album tells the extraordinary story of two Sunderland sisters who saved 29 Jews from the Nazis

5 min read

April 3, 2024 16:51

‘We were very happy that we caught it as early as we did’ says bowel cancer survivor

Gideon Josephs, who has been in remission for six years, reflects on his ordeal in the light of Bowel Cancer Awareness Month

5 min read

April 3, 2024 10:48

Shul music has given me a taste for melancholia

Every synagogue has a different approach, but I’m grateful I grew up with a choir and organ

3 min read

April 3, 2024 08:04

The musical mother who wants to give children confidence through singing and drama

Katie Hainbach says that these skills have proved vital in speaking out for her daughter

3 min read

March 28, 2024 14:58

Katie Hainbach, her husband, daughter Leia and sons Robin and Dylan

‘Roald Dahl took me to his filthy shed and told me he hated Jews’

Renowned royal correspondent Angela Levin interviewed the children’s author in 1983

4 min read

March 27, 2024 13:29

British children's author, short-story writer, playwright and versifier Roald Dahl (1916 - 1995), 11th December 1971. (Photo by Ronald Dumont/Daily Express/Getty Images)

Mother launches desperate search for a living kidney donor

Sharon Caplan dreams of living long enough to meet her grandchildren

2 min read

March 27, 2024 12:00

Sharon Caplan, who has launched a desperate search for a living kidney donor (Photo: Caplan)

Smartphone ban: Meet the north London parents shunning devices for their children

In north London, parents at a Jewish primary school are calling for smartphone-free childhoods

7 min read

March 20, 2024 11:03

Emma Ross, pictured with her three sons, heads up Eden Primary's Smartphone Free Childhood Group (Photo: Emma Ross)

Elizabeth McCracken wins this year’s Wingate Literary Prize

The annual prize is awarded to the best book ‘to translate the idea of Jewishness to the general reader’

1 min read

March 13, 2024 20:00

Elizabeth McCracken wins this year’s Wingate Literary Prize

‘Silence’ of feminists after October 7 rapes condemned on eve of International Women’s Day

It has taken the UN five months to acknowledge that women were raped and tortured by Hamas

4 min read

March 7, 2024 19:34

A rally in February outside the BBC, calling out the corporation and other media for their silence over the rape and other sexual violence which was carried out by Hamas on October 7. The UN has just published a report providing evidence that Hamas committed sexual violence against women and girls on October 7 and continues to sexually abuse the women and girls still held captive in Gaza (Photo: Gaby Wine)

Schools ‘shamefully’ boycotting Holocaust education over Gaza

Voices of the Holocaust, which takes plays preserving the memories and stories of Shoah survivors into schools, is getting ‘radio silence’

2 min read

March 7, 2024 16:28

A scene from 'Kindness: A Legacy of the Holocaust'

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Elisa Bray

Latest from Elisa Bray

Charity launches guidebooks to support eating disorder sufferers over Pesach

Former JFS pupil and Gordon Ramsay trainee wins restaurant cooking award

Amy’s friends: ‘She was humble’

Jewish Care choir sings its way into the final of national talent show

More from Elisa Bray

Back to Black: The Amy Winehouse film that polarised the critics

How Kabbalah and karaoke took me from science to music

The opera fans who saved Jews from the Nazis

‘We were very happy that we caught it as early as we did’ says bowel cancer survivor

Shul music has given me a taste for melancholia

The musical mother who wants to give children confidence through singing and drama

‘Roald Dahl took me to his filthy shed and told me he hated Jews’

Mother launches desperate search for a living kidney donor

Smartphone ban: Meet the north London parents shunning devices for their children

Elizabeth McCracken wins this year’s Wingate Literary Prize

‘Silence’ of feminists after October 7 rapes condemned on eve of International Women’s Day

Schools ‘shamefully’ boycotting Holocaust education over Gaza