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What not to miss over the next 12 months

JC critics reveal what they are most looking forward to in 2009

Review: The Reader

A grown-up Shoah film that leaves the audience to apportion blame.

Review: The Cordelia Dream

Lear-based drama lacks shock value

Review: Ticks And Crosses

Glittering gobbets of a cultural wizard

Jewish fighters in the forest

Murder most Freudian

We meet psychologist-turned-thriller-writer Frank Tallis, whose Austrian Jewish hero is to be seen on TV

£4m shul project

Several hundred New North London Synagogue members attended a ground-breaking ceremony for the shul’s £4 million building project at the Sternberg Centre in Finchley.

Holiday helpers give a charitable present

Supporters of the Tikun charity have been helping in soup kitchens, homeless shelters and care homes during the holiday period through its Light up a Life programme.

Norwood’s big spend

How Norwood spent £35 million in the financial year to March 2008 is detailed in the welfare charity’s newly released annual review.

School gets better Ofsted marks

An Orthodox boys’ school placed on special measures by Ofsted in 2006 as “inadequate” is celebrating an improved inspection report.

Maccabi cricketer dies in US, aged 24

Richard Ableson has died from a leukaemia-related illness in New York at the age of 24.

Leo Baeck to auction signed Chagall books

London’s Leo Baeck College is to sell a collection of 49 books signed and illustrated by Marc Chagall.

Shul looks ahead

Radlett Synagogue members have approved a wide-ranging “strategy and vision” document defining the community’s goals over the next five years.

Rights - and wrongs

A judge, a JC columnist and a rabbi debated different aspects of human rights at a League of Jewish Women forum at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue, St John’s Wood.

Masorti will take the train to New York

Fifteen Masorti members identified as future leaders of the movement will be travelling to New York as part of a training venture.

Conference is full of Eastern promise