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Gaby Wine

Gaby Wine

Gaby Wine is the JC's Community Editor and also enjoys writing features. You can contact her with community stories on gwine@thejc.com

Latest from Gaby Wine

Humanistic Judaism

Humanistic Judaism UK comes of age as it celebrates first bar mitzvah

The movement for atheistic and agnostic Jews started three years ago

4 min read

Humanistic Judaism on Limmud (Photo: Humanistic Judaism)

President Isaac Herzog (Photo: Blake Ezra)

Israeli President blames pro-Palestinian marches for creating ‘blood libels’

2 min read

Emily Damari (Photo: Blake Ezra)

Emily Damari: ‘I chose not to be a victim while I was held hostage’

4 min read

Young Jews put their heads together to ‘spark the future’ for their generation

Young Jews put their heads together to ‘spark the future’ for their generation

3 min read

Ellituvs confimed as new heads of Sephardi

The rabbinic couple were given a 96 per cent vote of confidence

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September 10, 2025 15:44

Rabbi Amir and Rabbanit Tova Ellituv

Called up to the Torah – at the age of 82!

Chrissie Hassall decided to have a bat mitzvah more than 50 years after converting to Judaism

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September 5, 2025 16:26

Chrissie Hassall (r) holding her bat mitzvah certificate, and Janet Berkman, chair of Peterborough Liberal Jewish Community (Photo: Progressive Judaism)

Norwood announces collaboration with leading Israeli disability charity

Teams from Beit Issie Shapiro and Norwood are exchanging knowledge, ideas and best practice

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September 4, 2025 14:08

(l-r) Heather Cohen, head of children and family services at Norwood; Alison Riffkin, Norwood family support manager and Nikki Leviner, director of the UK Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro at a meeting between the two charities to discuss the possibilities of future collaboration (Photo: Norwood)

I used to perform in the West End on Friday nights. Now I stay in to light Shabbos candles

Caroline Pakter tells the JC about her journey from showbusiness to Orthodox Judaism

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September 3, 2025 15:54

Caroline Pakter performing from 'Showbiz to Shabbos' (Photo: Robert Leach)

‘Don’t argue over Israel’ Eylon Levy urges UK Jewish community

The influencer was speaking at a hostage vigil in Finchley

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August 31, 2025 15:00

Eylon Levy at Finchley hostage vigil

Couple recreate wedding ceremony at care home for Grandpa

Wallace Leventhal lives in Jewish Care’s Vi & John Rubens home in Ilford

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August 29, 2025 16:33

Jemma and Hayden with parents Kim and Ian Steinberg & Amanda and Paul Becker with Hayden's grandfather, Wallace Levethal, at the mock wedding and celebration at Jewish Care's Vi & John Rubens House care home (Photo: Leon Gabriel)

Anne Frank Trust chosen by Mayor of London to help tackle hate crime

The charity will be working in six boroughs across the capital

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August 28, 2025 18:11

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has allotted funding to the Anne Frank Trust to help tackle hate crime in the capital (Photo: Getty)

She’s got her skates on! Millie speeds her way to success

The nine-year-old is already a national champion on the track

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August 17, 2025 11:03

Roller speed skating champion Millie Paice

80 Candles for 80 Years exhibition touring the UK

The Holocaust Memorial Day project marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau

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August 17, 2025 09:38

Some of the candle-holders designed for the 80 Candles for 80 Years project, organised by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust and now being displayed in an exhibition (Photo: HMDT)

Award-winning garden unveiled at 80th anniversary of arrival of the Windermere Boys

The original design, with a Magen David at its centre, won a Gardeners’ World award

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August 17, 2025 08:08

Arek Hersh, one of the Windermere Boys, in the memorial garden on the site of the original Calgarth Estate (Photo: Snappy Dayve)

Former heart surgery patient launches Camp Simcha project with help from Watford Football Club

Joel Ucko is marking ten years since his operation

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August 15, 2025 19:14

Joel Ucko (right) dining out with former Watford footballer Jonathan Bond (Photo: Joel Ucko)

Strictly fabulous! Israeli dance fans flock to UK camp

Participants flew in from 12 countries for the Machol Europa camp

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August 13, 2025 16:51

Strictly fabulous! Israeli dance fans flock to UK camp

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