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PASSPORT SERIES

4 YOUR SAY… Readers’ rants, raves and views on the Autumn issue of JR.

6 WHAT’S NEW Pamela Peled on how Israelis are coping, post-7 October.

8 FEATURE Meet the Londoners getting tattooed with Jewish symbols.

10 FEATURE David Leach speaks to some of the survivors of the kibbutz attacks last October.

14FEATURE Young Israelis and Palestinians on war and peace.

16THE LONG READ In this exclusive piece for JR, David Stromberg translates the only letters known to exist between the writer Esther Kreitman and her brother Isaac Bashevis Singer.

24 PASSPORT Romania: join a tour of Bucharest, hear about the arts radicals of the 1920s and meet the activists preserving the country’s Jewish heritage.

36 FILM Cherry Kompot’s Ukrainians abroad; singer Jessie Ware on Yentl.

38 MUSIC The Chelys Consort throws new light on two little-known 17thcentury Sephardi composers.

40 THEATRE Cable Street – a new musical with a contemporary twist.

42 ART Meet the Wolpes: artists, designers, jewellers, enamellers and much more. Hephzibah Anderson reports.

45 BOOKS Ed Stourton on the changing role of religion; what did the break up of the USSR mean for the people living through it?; Streisand’s memoir; the many shadows of Amos Oz.

56 THANK YOU A big thank you to our donors and supporters.

57 SEPHARDI RENAISSANCE Miriam Halahmy’s A Boy from Baghdad; Michael Frank speaks to Elizabeth Graver about her new book, Kantika.

63 WHAT’S HAPPENING Our three- month guide to art, books, film, music, theatre and other cultural events in the UK, Europe and Israel.

73 FAMILY A new book tells the story of the great escaper Harry Houdini.

74 MEET THE READER Thelma Ruby in Wimbledon, London.

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