Elisa Bray

Former JFS pupil and Gordon Ramsay trainee wins restaurant cooking award

Chef Stella Harris, 18, who works at the Savoy Grill, says she was inspired by her heritage

Amy’s friends: ‘She was humble’

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

The Sam Beckman Centre Choir welcomes people with memory impairment or dementia

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

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

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

‘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

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

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

‘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

Mother launches desperate search for a living kidney donor

Sharon Caplan dreams of living long enough to meet her grandchildren

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