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BBC EastEnders: Meet the old Queen Vic’s tough new Jewish landlady

Harriet Thorpe reveals how her new role as EastEnders’ no-nonsense pint-puller takes her back to her Jewish roots

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EastEnders,15-05-2023,6697,Elaine Peacock (HARRIETT THORPE),***EMBARGOED TILL TUESDAY 09TH MAY 2023****, BBC, Jack Barnes/Kieron McCarron

Succession was a rare portrayal of greed that wasn't antisemitic

Kate Maltby

Succession was a rare portrayal of greed that wasn't antisemitic

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Reality review: An unlikely whistleblower

Reality review: An unlikely whistleblower

By Linda Marric

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Aspects of Love, , Music - Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics- Don Black and Charles Hart, based on the novel by David Garnett, directed by Jonathan Kent, Lyric Theatre, 2023, Credit: Johan Persson/

Aspects of Love review: A slick and sumptuous meditation on passion

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Film review: Full Time - The trials of a single mother

Film review: Full Time - The trials of a single mother

By Linda Marric

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Taking Notes: Welcome to my Eden and thank you to Ezra

Taking Notes: Welcome to my Eden and thank you to Ezra

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Special awards for multi-million-pound redevelopment of Jewish museum

Manchester Leeds

Special awards for multi-million-pound redevelopment of Jewish museum

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'I run a festival that Jewish women from all walks of life can go to'

Meet the founder of HerSpace - a day of arts, talks, culture and retail therapy for Jewish women

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May 19, 2023 09:55

'I run a festival that Jewish women from all walks of life can go to'

Film review: Beau Is Afraid - A middle-aged mummy’s boy

Ari Aster's alt-reality, distopian film is a wonderful take on Oedipal misery and the horror of drug abuse

By Linda Marric

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May 18, 2023 16:47

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By Nathan Abrams

Is The Big Lebowski’s Walter the greatest Jewish character?

The Coen brothers’ masterpiece was released 25 years ago — and its leading man is unique among Jewish characters on film

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April 20, 2023 10:00

Is The Big Lebowski’s Walter the greatest Jewish character?

Noah Max

Why I stand by my opera version of Striped Pyjamas

Critics of the book misunderstand that it’s a parable, not based on real life

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April 4, 2023 16:16

Why I stand by my opera version of Striped Pyjamas

Keren David

Why calling slaves 'enslaved people' now makes sense to me

When my publishers told me to change my words, I almost blew a gasket… at first

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March 30, 2023 10:24

Vintage Biblical illustration features Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh after the Tenth Plague, Death of the Firstborn. Babies lay dead on the steps with their mothers distraught as Pharaoh finally grants permission to the Israelites to leave Egypt.

Creator of Holocaust video game says he wants to 'keep Shoah memory alive'

He had previously scrapped the project after it was slammed as ‘disgusting’ and ‘creepy’

By Georgia L Gilholy

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March 1, 2023 17:40

Creator of Holocaust video game says he wants to 'keep Shoah memory alive'

Ian Bloom

Koestler was a misogynist but he is still worth remembering

Largely forgotten, the novelist’s ‘Darkness at Noon’ ranks alongside ‘Animal Farm’ as a towering 20th-century political novel

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February 9, 2023 12:44

Koestler was a misogynist but he is still worth remembering

Tanya Gold

Culture war tribalism has enveloped the Israel-Palestine issue

Many pro-Palestinian activists are not pro-Palestinian at all

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January 19, 2023 10:31

TOPSHOT - Protesters shout slogans and hold placards during a demonstration on Whitehall opposite Downing Street in central London on April 7, 2018 in support of the Palestianians in the Gaza Strip calling for a stop to the killing organised by the Palestinian Forum in Britain. - Hundreds of protesters gathered on Whitehall opposite Downing Street in London to protest in support of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip after Israeli troops killed nine during the latest border clashes in a week of bloodshed. Thousands of protesters approached the border fence around Gaza for a second Friday in a row, burning tyres and hurling stones at Israeli forces, who responded with tear gas and live ammunition. In addition to the nine dead, at least 491 were wounded by Israeli gunfire, the health ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza enclave said. (Photo by Tolga AKMEN / AFP) (Photo credit should read TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images)

Kate Maltby

Enough with the gloom, Jewish art should be more joyous

On stage and screen, Jews just wanna have fun

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January 19, 2023 10:01

My Unorthodox Life: Season 1. Episode 5, Secular in the City. Pictured: (L-R) Miriam Haart and Julia Haart. c. Courtesy of Netflix © 2021

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