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PASSPORT SERIES
4YOUR SAY… Readers’ rants, raves and views on the January issue of JR.
6 WHAT’S NEW From Italy to Melbourne, we hear how communities around the world are coping with the ‘new normal’; JR’s Young Journalist Prize winner!
10 FEATURE Rebecca Taylor speaks to Margaret Hodge MP and former MP Louise Ellman about the challenges facing the new Labour leader.
14 FEATURE Monica Bohm-Duchen outlines her plans to take the Insiders/Outsiders festival into the future.
16PASSPORT Our friends in the north: the first in a series which explores the small towns and cities in the north of England to uncover the hidden Jewish history in these post-industrial heartlands.
30 ART Dazzling waterfalls fill the windows of Highgate Synagogue. David Benmayer meets the artist Ardyn Halter, who turns nature into glass.
32 MUSIC David Conway reports on the rediscovery of the 18th-century musical gem Ester; grab your dancing shoes for shul of rock.
34 FILM & TV The animation magic of Halas and Batchelor; new TV comedy with a ‘jangle’; quarantine culture.
37 BOOKS Author Eva Hoffman interviews journalist Hadley Freeman about her powerful new book House of Glass; the latest war memoirs; AB Yehoshua’s The Tunnel; the meaning of Houdini; Pamela Peled on a provocative new book on the Israeli occupation.
46THE YIDDISHISTS Our series that uncovers the YIVO archive. This issue: Passover in the DP camps.
47 SEPHARDI RENAISSANCE The Wolf of Baghdad – now in graphic novel form; Jane S Gerber explores the flowering of Sephardi culture across Europe’s cities; a Bukharian family’s story.
54WHAT’S HAPPENING Our threemonth guide to art, books, film, music, theatre and other cultural events in the UK, Europe and Israel.
65 FAMILY Miriam Berry reviews The Missing by Michael Rosen.
66 MEET THE READER To n y Abrahams in Bushey Heath, London.
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