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Ezra Montefiore
EDINBURGH FRINGE: all the Jewish shows you need to know about
By Louisa Walters
Comedy, theatre, music and even an interactive dating show – it’s all there this year with regulars and new names filling the bill
Miriam Margolyes, a fan of Dickens' Fagin
August 14, 2024, 6:47 pm
BBC pulls Miriam Margolyes ‘Fagin’ radio comment
Actress described the character as 'Jewish and vile', causing much laughter from an Edinburgh audience. She continued: 'I didn’t know Jews like that then — sadly, I do now'
By Jenni Frazer
Paul Currie (Instagram / @paulcurriecomedian)
August 14, 2024, 5:10 pm
Comedian says ‘Zionists’ shouldn’t attend his Edinburgh shows
Paul Currie was this year barred from performing again at Soho Theatre after being accused of hounding out an Israeli couple from a show there
By Jenni Frazer
Ezra Montefiore
July 15, 2024, 3:14 pm
EDINBURGH FRINGE: all the Jewish shows you need to know about
Comedy, theatre, music and even an interactive dating show - it's all there this year with regulars and new names filling the bill
By Louisa Walters
Jew O-Rama screenshot
June 26, 2024, 12:44 pm
Jewish comedy front and centre at Edinburgh Fringe despite expected hostility
Jew-O-Rama producers appeal for support to ensure the show goes on
By Michelle Rosenberg
Screenshot via Itamar Nitzan and Campaign Against Antisemitism
February 15, 2024, 11:36 am
Police told me, ‘Hide your Jewish identity at anti-Israel rally… we cannot protect you’
EXCLUSIVE: Man tells Jewish News he was advised to cover up his Magen David by Police Scotland to avoid "triggering" protesters.
By Michelle Rosenberg
Bennett Arron
August 29, 2023, 11:11 am
Jewish comedian on ‘receiving end of antisemitic slurs’ after Edinburgh show
BAFTA-nominated funnyman Bennett Arron claims top agent screamed screamed 'Jews should never have been given Israel'
By Lee Harpin
July 10, 2023, 6:18 pm
Whisky, witches and royalty on a weekend in Edinburgh
A very special hotel was the perfect base for a special family trip
By Louisa Walters
Jennifer Andreacchi, left and Han Smith, right, are the first Jewish LGBT couple to marry in Scotland. (Fern Photography)
January 23, 2023, 11:13 am
Couple have Scotland’s first gay Jewish wedding
Han Smith and Jennifer Andreacchi found a warm welcome in Edinburgh: “We’ve found an amazing Jewish community here."
By Alix Wall JTA
The cast of Alone on Radio 4
August 16, 2022, 5:36 pm
Bennett Arron returns to Radio 4
The comedian talks about his new show, Edinburgh and antisemitism
By Brigit Grant
Activist Pete Gregson speaks at a rally held outside the City Chambers on Edinburgh’s High Street on 23 March, promoting his Twinning Edinburgh with Gaza City petition. (YouTube)
March 29, 2022, 1:51 pm
Edinburgh-Gaza twinning proposal withdrawn to allow ‘full consideration to legal matters’
Edinburgh City Council's Policy and Sustainability Committee was scheduled to discuss a report conducted into a petition calling for the twinning with Gaza on Tuesday morning
By Lee Harpin
Activist Pete Gregson speaks at a rally held outside the City Chambers on Edinburgh’s High Street on 23 March, promoting his Twinning Edinburgh with Gaza City petition. (YouTube)
March 25, 2022, 2:53 pm
Edinburgh Council to formally discuss proposal to twin city with Gaza
Petition authored by activist Pete Gregson, who was expelled from the GMB union over allegations of antisemitism, and backed by Scottish National Party MP Tommy Sheppard
By Lee Harpin
British and European flags
November 26, 2018, 4:33 pm
Representatives of 11 UK universities in Israel with post-Brexit delegation
Senior personnel from institutions across the country are in the Jewish state this week to prepare for Britain leaving the EU
Alex Edelman
August 14, 2018, 10:21 am
Comedian tells Edinburgh crowd how he tracked down anti-Semitic trolls
Jewish funnyman from Boston, Alex Edelman, discusses how he traced white supremacists who'd been abusing him
The rubble of a home demolished by the IDF, with a tin shack that a family now has to live in, in Umm al-Khair.
March 5, 2018, 12:31 pm
Jewish students launch campaign against Palestinian home demolitions
'#Don’tSettleForThis' initiative claims Israeli policy 'runs counter to basic Jewish values of justice'
Jane Haining (Photo credit: Church of Scotland/PA Wire)
August 12, 2017, 10:03 pm
Scottish missionary who died protecting Jews in Auschwitz to be honoured
Jane Haining of the Church of Scotland to be given recognition in her adopted city of Budapest, 73 years after she died in Auschwitz-Birkenau
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