R enaissance

VOLUME 6 ISSUE 3 APRIL 2007

2 LE TTERS 3 FROM THE ED ITO R

W H A T ’ S NEW 4 Women make th e ir vo ic es heard

... and the Zemel c a l ls fo r more The P ianist on a bare stage 5 And s t i l l on ly 29...

A sound id ea fo r peace CROSSING CULTURES Women Lead the Way in M uslim Jew ish Understanding 6 Deborah Freem an re po r ts on a ‘ Show and Tell' a fte rnoon 7 Taniya Hussain a t te n d s a Jew ish -

Muslim s tu dy day 8 Jane t Levin ta lk s to the D ire c to r o f the new Centre fo r the S tu d y o f Muslim Jew ish R e la t io ns THE JR INTERVIEW 10 M eeting Avivah Zornberg

Golda Zafer-S m ith HERITAGE 12 The Hatikvah Cecil Bloom

14 THE JEW S OF ETHIOPIA Ethiopia and the Bible

15 Geoffrey Ben-Nathan Timeline

16 Jack Lukeman Religious Practice

17 Alexander Knapp The Promised Land

19 Joanna Newman Musical Traditions

20 Alexander Knapp The Maharis

21 Melody Amsel-Arieli ShaSha's Wedding

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Melody Amsel-Arieli Find out More Still Waiting Barbara Ribakove Gordon

ART 30 The Burning Bush through Artists' Eyes

Shulamit Laderman

WOMEN LEAD THE WAV PAGES

YIDDISH IN BRITAIN PAGE 35

32 Family, Faith and Ritual

Rachel Dickson talks to artists Julie Held and Shanti Panchal MUSIC 34 A Bold Traditionalist

Lex van Delden Y ID D IS H 35 Yiddish in Britain: a Renaissance?

Heather Valencia BOOKS 37 When Truth is Stranger than Fiction

Nigel Jarrett 38 A Taste o f Book Week Janet Levin 39 Classic Choice

Amy Levy's Reuben Sachs Reviews 40 Paul Gross on Samir El-Youssefs

The illusion o f Return 41 Marge Clouts on Jonathan Wilson's A

Palestine Affair; Judith Mirzoeff onDavid Maine's The Book o f Samson 42 Marina Benjam in and Naim Kattan 's books abou t l i fe in Iraq rev iew ed by Erica Gordon 43 M ichael Baron on V ic to r ia

G le n d in n in g 's b io g ra phy o f Leonard W oolf 44 Janet Levin reviews the Encyclopaedia

Judaica Second Edition Young Readers Isabel Benjamin reviews Voyage by Adele Geras 45 Poetry Choice Liz Cashdan selects poems by Miriam Hancock, Jennifer Langer and Miriam Halahmy LETTER FROM ISRAEL 46 View from a Volunteer

Michele Klein FOOD 47 A Taste o f Ethiopia

Passover Meals Barbara Ribakove Gordon AShabbat Meal Marlena Spieler LA S T WORDS 4 8 Amharic and Hebrew

Geoffrey Ben-Nathan

CENTRE SECTION: PAGES 23-29

THREE MONTH GUIDE TO EVENTS IN THE UK AND BEYOND

R E A D E R O F F E R S : P A G E S 41 A N D 48