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Jewish Care choir sings its way into the final of national talent show

The Sam Beckman Centre Choir welcomes people with memory impairment or dementia

By Elisa Bray

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The Jewish Care Sam Beckman Choir has reached the final of the Care Sector's Got Talent show (Photo: Jewish Care)

Marisa Abela stars as Amy Winehouse in director Sam Taylor-Johnson's BACK TO BLACK

Back to Black: The Amy Winehouse film that polarised the critics

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How Kabbalah and karaoke took me from science to music

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The opera fans who saved Jews from the Nazis

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‘We were very happy that we caught it as early as we did’ says bowel cancer survivor

Gideon Josephs, who has been in remission for six years, reflects on his ordeal in the light of Bowel Cancer Awareness Month

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April 3, 2024 10:48

Shul music has given me a taste for melancholia

Every synagogue has a different approach, but I’m grateful I grew up with a choir and organ

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April 3, 2024 08:04

The musical mother who wants to give children confidence through singing and drama

Katie Hainbach says that these skills have proved vital in speaking out for her daughter

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March 28, 2024 14:58

Katie Hainbach, her husband, daughter Leia and sons Robin and Dylan

‘Roald Dahl took me to his filthy shed and told me he hated Jews’

Renowned royal correspondent Angela Levin interviewed the children’s author in 1983

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March 27, 2024 13:29

British children's author, short-story writer, playwright and versifier Roald Dahl (1916 - 1995), 11th December 1971. (Photo by Ronald Dumont/Daily Express/Getty Images)

Mother launches desperate search for a living kidney donor

Sharon Caplan dreams of living long enough to meet her grandchildren

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March 27, 2024 12:00

Sharon Caplan, who has launched a desperate search for a living kidney donor (Photo: Caplan)

Smartphone ban: Meet the north London parents shunning devices for their children

In north London, parents at a Jewish primary school are calling for smartphone-free childhoods

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March 20, 2024 11:03

Emma Ross, pictured with her three sons, heads up Eden Primary's Smartphone Free Childhood Group (Photo: Emma Ross)

Elizabeth McCracken wins this year’s Wingate Literary Prize

The annual prize is awarded to the best book ‘to translate the idea of Jewishness to the general reader’

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March 13, 2024 20:00

Elizabeth McCracken wins this year’s Wingate Literary Prize

‘Silence’ of feminists after October 7 rapes condemned on eve of International Women’s Day

It has taken the UN five months to acknowledge that women were raped and tortured by Hamas

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March 7, 2024 19:34

A rally in February outside the BBC, calling out the corporation and other media for their silence over the rape and other sexual violence which was carried out by Hamas on October 7. The UN has just published a report providing evidence that Hamas committed sexual violence against women and girls on October 7 and continues to sexually abuse the women and girls still held captive in Gaza (Photo: Gaby Wine)

Schools ‘shamefully’ boycotting Holocaust education over Gaza

Voices of the Holocaust, which takes plays preserving the memories and stories of Shoah survivors into schools, is getting ‘radio silence’

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March 7, 2024 16:28

A scene from 'Kindness: A Legacy of the Holocaust'

Roald Dahl’s antisemitism is the subject of a new play at the Royal Court

Giant, the debut play written by Mark Rosenblatt, stars John Lithgow and will be directed by Nicholas Hytner

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March 6, 2024 15:23

Singer tours Israel to lift spirits of soldiers and evacuees

Jason Feddy is performing 12 concerts in two weeks

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March 1, 2024 15:34

Musician Jason Feddy is performing 12 concerts in two weeks

Mia Janin’s father endorses new anti-bullying campaign starring Peter Andre

Mariano Janin will attend the first school-screening of composer Fabio D’Andrea’s powerful music video, highlighting the dangers of cyberbullying

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February 29, 2024 15:42

Mariano Janin is backing a new music video, starring Peter Andre, which highlights the grave dangers of cyberbullying