Elisa Bray

How we live with disability, from frustrations and isolation to closeness and strength

Three families tell Elisa Bray how parenting has brought a rollercoaster of hospital trips, funding battles – and unexpected wonders

Former Sex Pistol John Lydon defends Israel and calls Hamas ‘just Jew exterminators’

The musician defied criticism when he played in Tel Aviv with his band Public Image Ltd in 2010

Adolescence shows we really need to step up and protect our children from smartphones

Meet Nova Eden, the “proudly Jewish” mother and children's mental health expert who has pioneered Barnet becoming the UK’s first smartphone-free borough

What to see in April, May and June, from Seth Rogen to Oi Va Voi

Elisa Bray’s entertainment guide for the months ahead

Music school founder nominated for UK award

Katie Hainbach worked as an opera singer before moving into teaching

The musicians who literally played for their lives in Auschwitz

When Anne Sebba began researching a book on Auschwitz’s women’s orchestra, she soon learnt their spirit of sisterhood – rather than musical talent – sustained them, she tells Elisa Bray

Like mother used to make

It’s Mother’s Day this Sunday. To mark the date which is a national event, if not a strictly Jewish one, celebrities share their favourite childhood dish made by the woman who brought them into the world

When my father wrote the text for Leonard Bernstein’s Kaddish, he saw it all coming

The West Side Story composer asked Holocaust survivor Samuel Pisar to write the text

Axed BBC Gaza documentary to be shown at London cinema

The Garden Cinema will screen the film withdrawn by the BBC on Tuesday

How Jewish is Noah Kahan?

The ‘Jewish Ed Sheeran’ plays his debut Glastonbury this summer

Felicity Kendal: ‘I’m wearing my Magen David to show that anyone can’

‘I’m paralysed, but I’ve written a show about my colourful life’

Technology and a kind doctor saved my life after I was diagnosed with MND. Now, drag queens are portraying me in a new show