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PASSPORT SERIES
4YOUR SAY… Readers’ rants, raves and views on the January issue of JR.
6 WHAT’S NEW Message from JR’s new Executive Director David Benmayer; Albania’s Jewish Museum; a new vegan hub.
10 FEATURE The Israeli new wave: David Herman uncovers the burst of creativity going on in Israeli TV, film, writing and technology.
13 FEATURE Mission to Moscow: a short story about the Russian ‘refuseniks’ from Lynne Reid Banks.
16PASSPORT Melbourne: the arts activists who are pioneering a Jewish renaissance in the city; Australia’s Yiddish hub; the convicts who were the country’s first Jews; fighting for aboriginal rights.
28THEATRE Judi Herman speaks to a Jewish and Muslim comedy duo; and meets the team behind a new opera.
30 ART Anya Lewin’s new film trilogy set in Cairo, Berlin and LA; the Insiders/Outsiders festival book.
32 EXHIBITION As a new show, Jews, Myth, Money, opens at the Jewish Museum London, Julie L Mell unpicks the stereotype of the Jewish moneylender.
34 MUSIC Swedish band Ida&Louise on their new album of Yiddish poetry set to music; review of The Blue Book by Michael Etherton & Mosaic Voices.
36 BOOKS Sheldon Teitelbaum on Jews in space; Shoshi IshHorowicz on feminist fantasy fiction; Martin Goodman on the Dachau orchestra; Maureen Kendler on Jewish writing in the 1980s; Peter Watts on Harvey Milk.
46THE YIDDISHISTS This issue: the San Francisco swimsuit strike.
47 SEPHARDI RENAISSANCE Ben Kasstan meets the (Jewish) midwives; Erica Eisen on Bollywood’s Jews; Joel R Hart finds Yemeni soul in Tel Aviv.
54WHAT’S HAPPENING Our three-month guide to art, books, film, music, theatre and other cultural events in the UK, Europe and Israel.
65 FAMILY Greet the spring at Sadeh Farm – the UK’s only Jewish farm.
66 MEET THE READER This issue: Charles Heller in Toronto.
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