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Thought-provoking panels bookended a lively matinee of Kadimah Yiddish Theatre’s Yentl at JR's theatre visit

Panel discussions, award-winning theatre and bagels were enjoyed at the JR outing to Yentl last month. The performance of Kadimah Yiddish Theatre’s ne...


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The Northern comedian shares the good, the bad and a bit of the ugly with an enthusiastic audience

Who doesn't love a good (bad) pun? As soon as I saw the title, along with the poster of Mark Maier with a kipper on his head (get it?), I was hooked. Jewvenile, as well as being a witty portmanteau, is a tribute to the Northern comedian's late father Werner, who died in 2024 aged...


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Ryan Craig’s family drama exploring ideological tensions amidst Jewish Londoners lacks subtlety and imagination

While clearly aspiring to bring a contemporary Jewish offering to the table around which Harold Pinter and Arthur Miller’s stage families have been rowing for decades, Ryan Craig’s The Holy Rosenbergs – currently being revived at the Menier Chocolate Factory after pr...


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The UK premiere of this new Yiddish staging of Yentl provides more twists than that of the tongue in a gratifying adaptation of the Isaac Bashevis Singer story

If the name of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s heroine conjures images of Barbra Streisand’s film, please banish them and prepare to be drawn into a revealing story where it is a longing for equal religious rights for women tha...


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This intriguing World War II drama, while loosely based in truth, doesn’t quite hit the spot

In 2012, a 95-year-old German woman named Margot Wölk claimed to have been one of a small group of women recruited to work as food tasters for Adolf Hitler during World War II. These women were all living near Hitler’s ‘Wolf’s Lair’ in what was then East Prussia, now Poland. Each day, ...


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