CULTURE
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Sophie Zucker — Jewish Renaissance
I trained as a classical pianist when I was growing up and started writing my own songs – funny, silly…
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The Fringe returns — Jewish Renaissance
The Lost Priest Orchard Theatre Company presents the premiere of this intimate one-man show about the complexities of growing up…
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The Reckoning ★★★★
Dash Arts’ thought-provoking drama will leave you fulfilled – in more ways than one Some years ago, my late husband…
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The Crucible ★★★★
Seven decades on and Arthur Miller’s thriller based on the Salem Witch Trials still hits a pertinent nerve Arthur Miller’s…
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Alan Yentob 1947-2025 — Jewish Renaissance
The BBC broadcaster has died aged 78. David Herman looks back at his influential career in TV Alan Yentob was…
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The Frogs ★★★★ — Jewish Renaissance
A fabulous cast finds its funny as gods, mortals and more in Sondheim’s merry musical fable One of many potent…
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Everyday Jews ★★★★ — Jewish Renaissance
At the end of Daniel Finkelstein’s memoir, Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad, his parents emerge from the horrors of the…
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Exploring the Channel Islands’ complex wartime history — Jewish Renaissance
Take a look back at our tour to Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney, which marked 80 years since the end of…
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The Most Precious of Cargoes ★★★★ — Jewish Renaissance
Yet the morose woodcutter, initially just a figure of unreflective, almost brutish physical strength, comes to realise that “The Heartless…
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House of Games ★★★★ — Jewish Renaissance
We find ourselves witness to two key locations, artfully portrayed via a split-level set concocted by Ashley Martin-Davis: the dimly…
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