Elisa Bray

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Creatives launch venture to promote Jewish arts

‘If Jewish art once again became central to Britain’s cultural conversation, imagine what that would do for how Jewish stories are told and heard’

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Tania Black and Rabbie Rose Prevezer (Photo: Marc Shelkin)

Badge of dishonour: some of the rock and pop stars who flaunted swastikas. Top right: author Daniel Rachel

When David Bowie fantasised about being Hitler

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Mum's the word: Sarah Hoover and her book Photo: Beowulf Sheehan

Sarah Hoover memoir ‘The Motherload’ to be adapted for TV

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Confirmed concerns: the expectant mum said her GP agreed "the situation was not great" in the NHS

I’m so scared of giving birth in a UK hospital, I’ve hired a Jewish doula

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Claim that Ruth Posner was coerced to attend suicide clinic is ‘appalling’, say her friends

Members of ‘Ruth’s film club’ told the JC that the decision to end her life at the Swiss clinic was hers, not that of her husband

3 min read

November 5, 2025 14:09

Claim that Ruth Posner was coerced to attend suicide clinic is ‘appalling’, say her friends

Pregnant Jewish women are enlisting doulas to keep them ‘safe’ when they give birth with the NHS

Mothers-to-be are employing the services of Jewish doulas for the birth of their babies ‘to have someone on their side’ amid a wave of reports about antisemitic NHS staff

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November 4, 2025 16:02

Pregnant Jewish women are enlisting doulas to keep them ‘safe’ when they give birth with the NHS

Oi Va Voi release new song for diaspora Jews who ‘feel unheard’

The band were cancelled by two venues due to pressure from activists back in May

3 min read

October 31, 2025 09:00

Steve Levi-Kallin, clarinettist and vocalist in Oi Va Voi (Photo: Bram Versteeg)

The choral angels who sing for the dying

Since being established just over a decade ago, Companion Voices has now grown to 13 groups around the UK

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October 29, 2025 12:18

The choral angels who sing for the dying

The Wanderers: ‘The grass is really not always greener on the other side’

Playwright Anna Ziegler on her new work about two very different Jewish marriages

4 min read

October 22, 2025 13:06

The Wanderers: ‘The grass is really not always greener on the other side’

Hit Israeli series Fauda is reportedly being adapted into a film

The Netflix series will be adapted for the big screen next year, according to Israel’s Channel 12

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October 22, 2025 12:44

Filming for the fifth season of Fauda is currently underway

Children’s mental health in the UK is ‘an emergency’ Luciana Berger tells JC event

Exploring digital technology’s impact on children’s mental health, the event also featured Nova Eden, who spearheaded the campaign for smartphone-free schools in Barnet

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October 21, 2025 15:58

Luciana Berger and Nova Eden, pictured at the JC's 'Parenting in the digital age' event

Eli Sharabi’s book, Hostage, hits number 10 in the UK bestseller list

The memoir recounts Sharabi’s 491 days in captivity in the hands of Hamas

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October 20, 2025 13:55

Freed: Eli Sharabi (centre) with Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Polish President Karol Nawrocki at the March of the Living at Auschwitz, in April

Police question woman who cut down yellow ribbons commemorating the hostages

The ribbons were cut from railings in Muswell Hill on the eve of the two-year anniversary of October 7

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October 10, 2025 10:46

Police question woman who cut down yellow ribbons commemorating the hostages

‘October 7 changed me as a doctor and also as a person’

An Israeli foot-and-ankle surgeon from the Rabin Medical Center who has been on the front line every day since the terror attack tells Elisa Bray about the day that upended everything

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October 5, 2025 00:00

collection leg x-ray with internal fixation, high quality xray leg fracture with post operation fix bone

CST inundated with volunteer applicants following Manchester attack in community show of ‘resilience and strength’

Donations have also poured in, including from many non-Jewish members of the public

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October 3, 2025 14:53

The CST provides security for the Jewish community

‘The trauma will live on with us forever’: British relatives of October 7 victims on their two years of loss

Relatives of loved ones murdered by Hamas and hostages still held captive in Gaza tell Elisa Bray their agonising stories

6 min read

October 1, 2025 10:24

‘The trauma will live on with us forever’: British relatives of October 7 victims on their two years of loss

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Elisa Bray

Latest from Elisa Bray

Creatives launch venture to promote Jewish arts

When David Bowie fantasised about being Hitler

Sarah Hoover memoir ‘The Motherload’ to be adapted for TV

I’m so scared of giving birth in a UK hospital, I’ve hired a Jewish doula

More from Elisa Bray

Claim that Ruth Posner was coerced to attend suicide clinic is ‘appalling’, say her friends

Pregnant Jewish women are enlisting doulas to keep them ‘safe’ when they give birth with the NHS

Oi Va Voi release new song for diaspora Jews who ‘feel unheard’

The choral angels who sing for the dying

The Wanderers: ‘The grass is really not always greener on the other side’

Hit Israeli series Fauda is reportedly being adapted into a film

Children’s mental health in the UK is ‘an emergency’ Luciana Berger tells JC event

Eli Sharabi’s book, Hostage, hits number 10 in the UK bestseller list

Police question woman who cut down yellow ribbons commemorating the hostages

‘October 7 changed me as a doctor and also as a person’

CST inundated with volunteer applicants following Manchester attack in community show of ‘resilience and strength’

‘The trauma will live on with us forever’: British relatives of October 7 victims on their two years of loss