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Elisa Bray

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Latest from Elisa Bray

The ‘Jewish Beatles’ sing for the community to come together (right now)

Rabbi Akiva, Bar Markovich, Asaf Flumendorf and chazan Jonny Turgel will be rocking out in September

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The Jewish Beatles: Chazan Jonny Turgel, Asaf Flumendorf, Rabbi Akiva Rosenblatt and Bar Markovich

Esther Marshall with two books from her Sophie Says series (Credit: courtesy)

Sophie Says: the children’s books making a difference

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A warm presence: Nick Mulvey playing at Home Farm

Review: At Home Farm, Nick Mulvey: A magical night of food and music

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Once Upon a World is performed by fellow dancers Aviv Horovitz and Yuval Finkelstein

Israeli theatre company The Train Theatre nominated for two Offie awards

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More from Elisa Bray

Artist who packed his emotions about October 7 into a painting

David Breuer-Weil is now using his artwork to memorialise victims of October 7

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August 14, 2024 05:34

David Breuer Weil with Morning (overall size 376 x 688cm, acrylic on canvas, image courtesy of Sam Roberts). The artwork aims to depict the intense emotions surrounding October 7

The song I wrote for The Tattooist of Auschwitz is my most profound ever

The song Barbra Streisand sang for the TV series is up for an Emmy. I meet the man who wrote its lyrics

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August 7, 2024 12:52

Music to one's ears: Charlie Midnight in his studio

Father walks and writes to raise money for the charity caring for his son

Laurence Smith’s disabled son, Jeremy, has been living in a Norwood home since he was 18

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August 1, 2024 13:13

Laurence Smith and his son Jeremy, who is a resident of a Norwood care home (Photo: Laurence Smith)

Israeli-born author longlisted for Booker Prize

Yael van der Wouden’s book explores the legacy of the Holocaust

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July 31, 2024 08:31

'Exhilarating’ writing: Yael van der Wouden

Kids donate their hair to help young cancer patients

Cancer support charity Zichron Menachem holds bi-annual hair-cutting sessions

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July 29, 2024 16:25

Participants of Zichron Menachem's Summer Cut, who donated their hair to make wigs for children undergoing cancer treatment in Israel and the UK (Photos: Zichron Menachem)

Lawyers launch legal challenge against ICC decision on Netanyahu arrest warrant

The ICC move was a ‘violation of every norm of international law’ argues one of the NGOs behind the challenge

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July 26, 2024 08:07

Karim Khan KC

‘As an Israeli, I felt really unsafe in the creative industry’

Neta Gracewell is bringing ‘a dark feminist comedy’ to the Camden Fringe

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July 24, 2024 12:22

Rehearsals for Second Hand Problems, directed by Neta Gracewell, with Marcia Tucker (left) and Molly Cass O'Donnell

Activist from Gaza says Western pro-Palestine protesters give terrorists ‘good PR’

Hamza Howidy, 26, moved to Germany last August after being detained and beaten by the terror group

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July 23, 2024 10:39

Student demonstrators occupy the pro-Palestinian "Gaza Solidarity Encampment" at Columbia University in New York City (Photo: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Natalie Portman says her grandfather changed his name to sound less Jewish

The actor said the name change was ‘initially a survival mechanism’

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July 17, 2024 08:26

US-Israeli actress Natalie Portman arrives for the 81st annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills, California, on January 7, 2024. (Photo by Michael TRAN / AFP) (Photo by MICHAEL TRAN/AFP via Getty Images)

I’m one of those Jews Felicity Kendal thinks is wrong

The thought of being visibly Jewish in public today does worry me – and I am not alone

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July 17, 2024 07:34

Felicity Kendal (SOPA Images Limited/Alamy Live News)

Airbnb suspends Oxford host who refused to allow an Israeli woman to stay

The host said the woman could not rent her property because she ‘cannot condone the war’

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July 8, 2024 15:15

Airbnb suspends Oxford host who refused to allow an Israeli woman to stay

Artist makes Jewish history on the walls of JW3

Leon Fenster speaks to the JC about what inspired his eye-popping mural, which is being unveiled this week

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July 8, 2024 12:20

In Leon Fenster's mural, Queen Elizabeth I is depicted watching the trial of her Jewish doctor Rodrigo Lopez, who was found guilty of plotting to poison her (Photo: Leon Fenster)

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