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Insta-dram! The rabbi with a VERY neat side hustle

Whisky-loving Amir and his baker rebbetzen wife Tova are a big hit on social media

By Deborah Linton

4 min read

January 30, 2025 16:41

Huge following: Rabbi Amir Ellituv brandishing a bottle of Scotch and his wife Tova showcasing one of her baking creations

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That time my parents’ car broke down outside a mosque in the middle of a Hamas-Israel war

As the vehicle ground to a sudden halt, the Red Alert siren that blared out air-raid warnings when Israel was under attack started wailing on my mother’s phone...

By Misha Mansoor

3 min read

January 30, 2025 14:52

Theatre

Oliver! review: ‘has the audience begging for more’

Simon Lipkin’s Fagin is the best but not only reason to buy a ticket for this sublime revivial of the masterpiece

By John Nathan

2 min read

January 29, 2025 14:22

Picking pockets: Simon Lipkin as Fagin in the Gielgud Theatre production Photo: Johan Persson

Dance

Dance review: Onegin/Three short ballets

‘In the swooping, passionate pas de deux you can see how they both enjoyed extending classical vocabulary in exciting, sensual ways’

By Joy Sable

2 min read

January 29, 2025 14:21

Bruno Serraclarain in Four Last Songs (Photo:Emily Nuttall)

Film

The Brutalist review: ‘so what if the Holocaust survivor at its centre is fictional?’

The complainants have got it all wrong. This Oscar-nominated movie is not about Adrien Brody’s Hungarian-Jewish architect, it’s an argument for culture

By John Nathan

1 min read

January 29, 2025 13:37