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Fringe benefits from a cultural renaissance

The Tsitsit Jewish arts festival is back. Keren David meets its founder, Alastair Falk

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Fringe benefits from a cultural renaissance

Freedland’s play fell into the anti-Zionist trap

Zoe Strimpel

By Zoe Strimpel

Freedland’s play fell into the anti-Zionist trap

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Jewish films made in Britain? They don’t count

Michael Etherton

By Michael Etherton

Jewish films made in Britain? They don’t count

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The Jewish diaspora is going through an age of mediocrity

Josh Glancy

The Jewish diaspora is going through an age of mediocrity

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Mayerling ballet review: As compelling a ballet as you will ever see

Mayerling ballet review: As compelling a ballet as you will ever see

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Jon Voight (Peter Miller), Derek Jacobi (Klaus Wenzer).

Ian Bloom

Bestselling thriller opened eyes of world to threat against Israel

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Is one play at the Royal Court enough to undo the damage?

Kate Maltby

Is one play at the Royal Court enough to undo the damage?

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Nathan Abrams

By Nathan Abrams

Why don’t people realise that Marilyn Monroe was Jewish?

A new film biography opens next week of the film star who converted when she married legendary playright Arthur Miller

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September 28, 2022 08:38

(Eingeschr√§nkte Rechte f√ºr bestimmte redaktionelle Kunden in Deutschland. Limited rights for specific editorial clients in Germany.) *17.10.1915-10.02.2005+Schriftsteller, USAmit Ehefrau Marilyn Monroe nach der Hochzeit (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Nathan Abrams

By Nathan Abrams

It’s not just Kubrick and Sellers who made Lolita a Jewish film

The story ’s theme of an outsider battling against the social order is — despite the troubling subject matter — typically Jewish

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September 2, 2022 11:49

It’s not just Kubrick and Sellers who made Lolita a Jewish film

As Spider-man turns 60, just how Jewish is the ultimate neurotic superhero?

Created by New Yorkers Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, the first teen superhero captured audiences from the start

By Joel Meadows

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September 1, 2022 14:32

As Spider-man turns 60, just how Jewish is the ultimate neurotic superhero?

Stephen Pollard

By Stephen Pollard

Heard the joke about the comedy reviewer and the Jews?

"When was the last time a Jew was shot in London?", asked Kate Copstick

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August 22, 2022 15:56

Heard the joke about the comedy reviewer and the Jews?

Vivi Lachs

Forgotten Yiddish literature is a peephole to a vanished world

The arrival of Eastern European Jews in the mid-1880s led to London becoming a hive of Yiddish culture, now all but lost

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August 22, 2022 08:44

Forgotten Yiddish literature is a peephole to a vanished world

Keren David

Sometimes, theatre can get Jewishness right

It is fabulous to see your own community on stage, but toe-curling when it hits a bum note

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August 19, 2022 10:57

Sometimes, theatre can get Jewishness right

David Baddiel

By David Baddiel

What Love Island really needs is sexy, nebbish Jews

Who wouldn’t want to watch Saul Bellow on Love Island?

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August 18, 2022 11:20

LONDON, ENGLAND - AUGUST 10: Megan Barton Hanson, Wes Nelson, Georgia Steel, Dani Dyer, Jack Fincham, Laura Anderson, Paul Knops, Samira Mighty, Josh Denzel, Kaz Crossley and Alex George during the 'Love Island Live' photocall at ICC Auditorium on August 10, 2018 in London, England. (Photo by Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images)

Zoe Strimpel

By Zoe Strimpel

What’s all this song and dance about musicals?

Yes, there are some Jews who don’t lap up classic Broadway shows or adore Barbra Streisand

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August 8, 2022 13:27

What’s all this song and dance about musicals?

Karen E H Skinazi

By Karen E H Skinazi

The Charedi feminist icon who seems to be defending a rapist

Rama Burshtein-Shai's Fir Dance has created a huge storm in Israel

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July 14, 2022 11:27

The Charedi feminist icon who seems to be defending a rapist

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