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Elisa Bray

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2024 in review: Jewish music

This year Eden Golan, Bob Dylan, Billy Joel and the world’s first Israeli-Palestinian boy band hit all the right notes

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2024 in review: Jewish music

Dispensing good cheer: Daniel Rolnick has been Santa for 35 years

The Jewish Santa who has spread festive magic for 35 years

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Meet Lapland’s ‘giant yiddishe elf’

Meet Lapland’s ‘giant yiddishe elf’

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The women who’ll help you through the menopause

The women who’ll help you through the menopause

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Just how Jewish is Timothée Chalamet?

The American Oscar nominee is starring in two Jewish roles next year including a biopic of Bob Dylan

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December 17, 2024 11:00

Timothée Chalamet attends the Los Angeles Premiere of A Complete Unknown (Photo: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)

How Jewish is singer-songwriter Gracie Abrams?

The daughter of film director JJ Abrams is top of the UK singles chart and may well be the Christmas No1 but is she even Jewish?

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December 10, 2024 17:07

Gracie Abrams attends the 66th GRAMMY Awards (Getty Images)

After swastikas and threats I turned my restaurant kosher

Even in the face of hate, Beejhy Barhany refused to hide who she was at her (now) kosher vegan Harlem cafe

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December 5, 2024 12:39

Photo: Clay Williams / http://claywilliamsphoto.com

The Israeli-Palestinian boy band with the harmony factor

‘The music saved us’, say pop group As1one, who arrived in LA to record their album the day before October 7

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December 2, 2024 14:10

As1one say 'Music is the best thing to deliver our message' (Photo: Andrew Zach/ East Deck Creative Inc)

New art prize to commemorate artist who explored the intergenerational trauma of her mother’s escape from Nazi Germany

The life and legacy of Judith Tucker is being celebrated at the University of Leeds

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November 26, 2024 17:30

Artist Judith Tucker and poet Harriet Tarlo at work at Humberston Fitties Beach (Photo: Annabel McCourt)

The ex-JFS pupil who became the postergirl for equine luxury

Clara Fingerhut bought a pony with her bat mitzvah money and has never looked back

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November 21, 2024 12:25

The ex-JFS pupil who became the postergirl for equine luxury

Andy Cohen’s Real Housewives are coming to London

The American reality TV franchise that started in 2006 will air in the UK capital next year

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November 20, 2024 18:51

Andy Cohen’s Real Housewives are coming to London

Bob Dylan, Royal Albert Hall, review: Confounding, poignant and a privilege to witness

Dylan performed the first of three nights at the venue – a culmination of a three-year world tour

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November 14, 2024 14:13

Bob Dylan performs at Roskilde Festival in 2019 (Photo by Helle Arensbak/AFP via Getty Images)

I love Chrismukkah and I’m not afraid to admit it

Chanukah begins on Christmas Day this year, which is perfect if you adore both of them

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November 14, 2024 09:33

Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square (Getty Images)

Mum of baby with Tay-Sachs urges people to get tested before starting a family

Jnetics is holding a vital match-funding campaign on Sunday and Monday

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November 8, 2024 14:50

Chloe Hakimi with her son Marley

Family’s artistic legacy lives on with inaugural prize

Mark Cass’ father and great-great uncle championed up-and-coming artists in Europe and the UK

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November 4, 2024 17:38

Mark Cass (l) and his father Wilfred Cass with a painting by Max Liebermann of Mark's great-grandfather Richard Cassirer (Photo: Mark Cass)

A Simchat Torah of reflection, sadness, loss, pain… and hope

This year’s festivities will be marked by an intensity that has never been felt before

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October 23, 2024 15:16

Dancing with Torah scrolls during the Simhat Torah in Netanya (Getty Images)

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