WHAT’S ON January – April 2017 www.jw3.org.uk
WHAT’S ON Performance, Music, Dance, Comedy, Talks & Discussions, Jewish Book Week, Festivals, Young Professionals, Walks, Cinema & Israel Week
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January – April 2017 JW3London
Welcome... This season, join us for a diverse range of artistic and cultural events at JW3. Festival of the Mind returns for a day of sessions and activities on mental well-being, and GAYW3 marks 50 years since the decriminalisation of homosexuality with a vibrant programme celebrating and exploring the lives of the LGBTQ community. The renowned Jewish Book Week presents a week of fantastic talks and discussions to inspire and excite, with authors including Barbara Honigmann and Maureen Lipman. We also have a selection of events to mark the Jewish Year, including a Yom HaShoah Commemoration in remembrance of victims of the Holocaust, and an Israeli-themed Friday Night Dinner for Young Professionals. All this, as well as a wealth of music, theatre and comedy performances, talks and discussions, walks and cinema. We look forward to seeing you!
CONTENTS Comedy p1
See what else is going on at JW3 in our other season guides:
Music p1 Ivy House Music & Dance
p2
Spin Salon
p3
Young Professionals
p3
Performance p4 GAYW3 p5 Festival of the Mind
p7
Sunday Night Live
p8
Literature p9 Jewish Book Week
p10
Talks & Discussions
p12
What’s On Classes Families & Youth & Courses
Walks p18 Jewish Year
p20
Cinema p21
VENUE HIRE Looking for venue hire? JW3 has something that will suit your needs, whether for a corporate or charity event or function. Our Howard Hall, seating up to 270 theatre-style, is perfect for conferences, talks and more. There are plenty of breakout rooms for meetings and ‘away-days’. Our intimate 60-seat Cinema is available for parties, charities, industry screenings and business presentations. Email venuehire@jw3.org.uk or call 020 7433 8989 for more information
COMEDY Tuesday 21 March & Wednesday 22 March
ASHLEY BLAKER: MESHUGA FRUM 8pm, £20
Jumoké Fashola © Carolyn Cowan
Ashley Blaker © Steve Ullathorne
The stand-up sensation being called ‘The Haredi Michael McIntyre’ ends his brand new 2017 tour back at JW3. There are big laughs for everyone as BBC comedy writer and producer, Ashley Blaker (Little Britain, The Matt Lucas Awards), shines a light on what it truly means to Jewish. ‘A sharply funny 90 minutes which is currently rocking them in the aisles all over Jewish Britain.’ The Times of Israel
MUSIC Thursday 9 February
Sunday 5 March
DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS
REBOOT UNPLUGGED
8pm, £18 Celebrating the blues in all her feisty glory, Jumoké Fashola’s Dirty Little Secrets concert reveals the stories behind some of the raunchiest and most lecherous songs, from 1920s gems through to contemporary music, by songwriters from Andy Razaf to Stephen Sondheim and performed by singers such as Bessie Smith and Nina Simone.
8pm, £15
Jukomé Fashola
Join us to celebrate Reboot’s National Day of Unplugging with an intimate night of unplugged music from a specially curated line-up of emerging artists. Leave your mobile devices at the door, slouch on a bean bag and connect with the people around you – not just those on Facebook. Visit www.jw3.org.uk/unplugged for details.
at JW3
& Dance
Tuesday 17 January
Thursday 9 March
SCOTT HAMILTON QUARTET
AN EVENING WITH IAN SHAW
8pm, £18
8pm, £18
Famed for his classic jazz tenor saxophone and unique style of mixing swing with modern, Scott Hamilton’s visits from the US have become eagerly anticipated events in the musical calendar. This, his formidable quartet’s first performance at JW3, will be a swinging evening of musical poise and panache.
Winner of Best Jazz Vocalist in the BBC Jazz Awards 2004 and 2007, Ian Shaw brings his brilliant voice and irresistible humour for an electrifying concert of inspired music interwoven through voice and piano. Part of the GAYW3 season.
©ROH, Alice Pennefather
Sunday 19 February
Wednesday 29 March
THE ROYAL BALLET: THE GENIUS OF SIR KENNETH MACMILLAN
MARLENE VERPLANCK
2.30pm, £22
The incomparable American singer, who has performed at Carnegie Hall, returns to tour the UK. The New York Times summed up VerPlanck as ‘the most accomplished interpreter of popular music performing today’. She’ll appear with the finest of today’s jazz artists, John Pearce, on piano, Paul Morgan, on bass and Bobby Worth, on drums.
Ballet Master of The Royal Ballet, Ricardo Cervera, with dance writer Gerald Dowler, explores aspects of Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s glorious choreography within The Royal Ballet’s repertoire. This exceptional afternoon will feature a Royal Ballet soloist dancing a variety of works highlighting MacMillan’s lasting creativity.
8pm, £18
Special Offer: Book any three different Ivy House Music & Dance events at one time and save £5 off the total. 2
Scott Hamilton
Ivy House Music
Spin salon
Stories, music, and the stories behind the music...
Thursday 16 February
Thursday 16 March
THE DEVIL’S MUSIC
RADICAL JEWISH CULTURE
8pm, £15, £12 web advance
8pm, £15, £12 web advance
They say that the devil has all the best tunes, so what is on the playlist? Mixing demonic tunes and Talmudic tales of shady spirits, broadcaster, DJ and musical director Max Reinhardt is joined by folk song collector and musician Sam Lee, and artist and Jewish educator, Jacqueline Nicholls.
Radical Jewish Culture thrives in downtown New York, with innovative composer and musician John Zorn being one of the leading figures. Alongside listening to music of the movement, host Max Reinhardt discusses Zorn’s impact with musician and Zorn collaborator Sam Eastmond.
Young professionals
Events for those in their 20s and 30s
Sunday 26 March
Friday 28 April
YOUNG PROFESSIONALS BRUNCH WITH HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS
ISRAELI-THEMED FRIDAY NIGHT DINNER
10.30am, £5
6.30pm, £20
Continuing our commitment to Holocaust education, we invite anyone aged 20-39 to hear from a panel of Holocaust survivors and discover their stories over a delicious brunch. There will be an opportunity to ask questions and most importantly discuss how, as the next generation, we can keep their memories alive.
Join us for a Friday night dinner catered by our outstanding in-house restaurant, Zest. This time, our dinner has a special twist, it’s a mystery mingle! Switch tables between each course and take part in our fun activities promising to get everyone talking! Part of JW3’s Israel Week.
YOUNG PROFESSIONALS FILM NIGHT OUT
Join us for our monthly Young Professionals Film Night Out when we screen a new film for just £7.50 including a free bag of popcorn. Tickets for these events are only available to Young Professionals. Visit www.jw3.org.uk/cinema for details of the next Film Night Out. Also, don’t miss our Young Professionals Cooking Series, full details in our Classes & Courses season guide, and at www.jw3.org.uk/youngprofessionals 3
Thursday 26 January
Tuesday 4 April
NO FEEDBACK
GONE FOR A BURTON by Norma Cohen
6.30pm & 8.30pm, £12 An interactive performance event combining cutting-edge human rights research and physical theatre to highlight the gentle pull of discrimination that tears at the fabric of everyday life. It takes the format of a public meeting, asking audiences to consider their own place on the spectrum of how we relate to one another.
7.30pm, £8 Tailor Label Levansky sees his old sparring partner from the shtetl, Moyshie Oshinsky, setting up a new branch of Burton’s menswear chain opposite his small shopfront in 1956 Liverpool. Label is spurred on by his determined wife Gitel to fight for survival, abetted by their one-track Communist son Jack, in this staged play reading.
Thursday 2 March The Ruby Dolls
THE RUBY DOLLS PRESENT: THE BRIDES OF BLUEBEARD 8pm, £15 The Beard is getting married. Again. And all of his previous wives have a habit of dying mysteriously... This is the centuries-old folk tale Bluebeard rewired for 2017. It’s about control, power and female transgression. With jokes. And music sung in close part harmony by critically acclaimed cabaret ensemble The Ruby Dolls. Wednesday 8 March
RUN by Stephen Laughton 8pm, £15 It’s the last day of term and Yonni’s angry. All he wants is to disappear into his room. That’s where Adam is, the only person Yonni wants to be around and think about. Run explores what it means to love, to lose, and how to grow from a boy into a man. Part of the GAYW3 season. 4
Monday 30 & Tuesday 31 January | Thursday 9 February
EAT ZAGI 7.30pm, £35 including three course meal Zee and Gabi have started a pop-up restaurant specialising in Muslim-Jewish food fusion, drawing from their family recipes. But when they invite their friends and family, secrets come out, arguments escalate and nerves fray. An interfaith theatrical event combining food and interactive performance. Written and produced by Angry Bairds. All food and utensils will be kosher (not under supervision), and will be halal. If you have any dietary requirements call the Box Office after booking on 020 7433 8988.
No Feedback © Will Jennings
The Ruby Dolls
PERFORMANCE
GAYW3 Monday 27 February - Sunday 12 March It has been 50 years since the 1967 Sexual Offences Act decriminalised homosexuality and changed attitudes towards LGBTQ identities, both in the UK and in the Jewish world. Starting during LGBT History Month, and culminating in a Purim extravaganza, GAYW3 explores the issues and celebrates the lives of the LGBTQ community throughout history to the present day. See our Families & Youth guide for more GAYW3 events, or visit www.jw3.org.uk/GAYW3 Monday 27 February
Wednesday 8 March
BENJAMIN BRITTEN’S PETER GRIMES
RUN by Stephen Laughton
10.30am, £20, £16 web advance
See p4 for details.
See p12 of the Talks & Discussions section for details.
Thursday 9 March
Tuesday 28 February
SORRY GOD, I’M GAY PECHA KUCHA 7.30pm, £10 People of different faith backgrounds share their stories of creating their identities. Hosted by Rachel Mars. Sunday 5 March
HOW TO: SPEAK POLARI
8pm, £15
CLOTHING, COSTUME & THE CLOSET 7.30pm, £12 Professor Reina Lewis and Maureen Kendler explore gender taboos, hidden identities and coming out in the Purim story. Thursday 9 March
AN EVENING WITH IAN SHAW 8pm, £18
11am, £10
See the Ivy House Music & Dance section (p2) for details.
Learn the basics of gay subculture’s slang language and find out about its rich history.
Sunday 12 March
Sunday 5 March
STARTING A QUEER FAMILY 2.30pm, £10 We’ll discuss the options available in the UK for LGBTQ people who want to become parents. Tuesday 7 March
QUEER ART FROM WILDE TO WOLFENDEN 7.30pm, £15 See p12 of the Talks & Discussions section for details.
OY VEY! THE MATINEE! TORCH SONG TRILOGY 2pm, £10 See p21 of the Cinema section for details. Sunday 12 March
AMY GRIMEHOUSE PRESENTS… CABARET 7.30pm, £15 The underground cinema/arts club celebrates the Weimar cabaret scene with sexy, subversive performance, audience participation, music and film. Dress up, drag up and roll up for the best Purim party in town! 5
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festival of the mind Sunday 2 April Festival of the Mind returns for the third year to explore the worlds of psychology, mindfulness and mental well-being. Buy tickets for at least three events and get 20% off. Between 12noon and 3pm Simona Lyons will be holding one-to-one Bibliotherapy sessions for £8, providing tailor-made literary fixes to take away. Plus, we’re screening Pixar’s acclaimed Inside Out (£8), at 8pm the Lit Café Book Club discusses Oliver Sack’s Uncle Tungsten (see Literature section for details) and in our FREE Crafternoon, 2-5pm, enjoy making your very own brain puzzles - for ages 2+, children must be accompanied by an adult.
Talks & Performances MEMORY ARTIST 12.30-1.30pm, £8 Daniel Kilov was the silver medallist at the 2011 and 2012 Australian Memory Championships and holds a national record for the memorisation of abstract images. In addition to talking about his own journey, Daniel will share his own memory techniques.
Activities & Workshops MINDFULNESS & MEDITATION 11am-12noon, £8
COMEDIANS ON THE COUCH: CHEAPER THAN THERAPY 4.30-5.45pm, £8
Join Nikki Levitan, an empowerment coach and well-being facilitator, for an experiential workshop which you’ll leave with a deeper understanding of mindfulness and meditation.
Christian Talbot’s hilarious show brings together comedians on the proverbial couch to explore fears, quirks, families and everything in between. It’s insightful and much funnier than therapy too.
THE FREUDS IN HAMPSTEAD: GUIDED WALK
POSITIVE CHANGE
11am-1pm, £15 See the Walks section (p19) for details.
CIRCLESONGS: A WORKSHOP
6-7pm, £8 Psychotherapist Martin Weaver will respond to your frustrations around change and offer tips to help you build a positive relationship with your emotions.
2.30-3.45pm, £8 Come and join us for some circle singing, a form of group singing that connects with ancestral ways of music making. Open to singers of all abilities. For full details of all events, visit www.jw3.org.uk/festival-mind
THE SOUND OF MIND 7.45-9pm, £12 The Cabinet of Living Cinema return to JW3, using film and music to explore the world of dreams, altered states, erotic fantasy and neuroses. 7
SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE Sunday 19 February
NICOLE FARHI
Nicole Farhi © Billie Scheepers
6.30pm, £15 As London Fashion Week rolls into town, we welcome one of Britain’s best loved designers to JW3. Nicole Farhi was born in Nice to Turkish Jewish parents. She studied fashion illustration in Paris in the 60s, moved to London to start French Connection with Stephen Marks in the 70s, started her eponymous global fashion empire in the 80s and, in recent years, has walked away from the industry altogether to become a sculptor. In conversation with Patrick Bade she discusses her life and work.
LITerature
Thursday 19 January
Thursday 30 March
BATTLE OF THE BOOK GROUPS
LIT CAFÉ: ELAINE FEINSTEIN
8pm, £10
8pm, £10
Nothing compares with the pleasure of reading a good book - apart from the pleasure of proving that you know more about it than anyone else. Bring your book group or come along and join a team to pit your wits against other readers in our big literary quiz, hosted and created by writer and broadcaster Marcel Theroux.
Elaine Feinstein is a prize-winning poet, novelist and biographer who has been publishing and broadcasting for more than 50 years. Launching her New and Selected Poems here at the Lit Café, Elaine will read from her work and discuss her remarkable life in poetry with Fiona Sampson. Sunday 2 April
Thursday 23 February
LIT CAFÉ BOOK CLUB: UNCLE TUNGSTEN
LIT CAFÉ: WHAT MAKES A BOOK JEWISH?
6pm, £5
8pm, £10 2017 marks the 40th year of the prestigious JQ Wingate Literary Prize, which celebrates the best of Jewish writing from around the world. Join us to hear past judges and winners of the prize discuss ‘What Makes a Book Jewish?’ before the winner of the 2017 prize is announced. Chaired by journalist Emily Kasriel. Ticket includes refreshments.
We’re celebrating 40 years of the JQ Wingate Literary Prize with a new book club that celebrates past winners. This season, to tie in with JW3’s Festival of the Mind, we’ll consider Uncle Tungsten by legendary neurologist Oliver Sacks. Read it and come along to discuss it with writer and broadcaster Tim Samuels. Part of JW3’s Festival of the Mind.
Modern Sephardi Cooking ‘Probably the best restaurant to open in North West London in the last 10 years’ Giles Coren, The Times
www.zestatjw3.co.uk | 020 7433 8955
JEWISH BOOK WEEK at JW3
Jewish Book Week is delighted to present a series of festival events at JW3. Buy a ticket for a single event, or get a discount by booking a double bill ticket for two events on the same day. Book signings will take place after each event and a festival bookshop will be running throughout. Jewish Book Week 2017 runs from 25 February to 5 March. For full listings see www.jewishbookweek.com All Jewish Book Week at JW3 events are £8 per ticket or £12 for a same day double bill.
Monday 27 February Remarkable Testaments
Tuesday 28 February Extraordinary Lives
MY DEAR ONES
MAUREEN LIPMAN ON & OFF THE STAGE
1pm RABBI JONATHAN WITTENBERG & RABBI SHOSHANA BOYD GELFAND Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg interweaves the story of his family during the 1930s and 40s with the tragic unfolding of events in WW2 Europe, in a beautifully written narrative. He describes some of his unique family and their fates in conversation with Rabbi Shoshana Boyd Gelfand, Director of JHub.
1pm Maureen Lipman is a magnet on stage, drawing all eyes to her. A woman of many gifts, she also has an active professional life offstage as a writer and journalist. With an inventive new book of caricatures of the famous; It’s a Jungle Out There, she appears in her many personae.
PERPETRATORS & THEIR VICTIMS
THE REFUSAL TO BE VANQUISHED
2.30pm
2.30pm
ANTHONY RUDOLF, PAUL BOGDANOR & MICHAEL PINTO-DUSCHINSKY
ROSA LIPWORTH CBE, DORIT OLIVER-WOLFF & ANNE SEBBA
Anthony Rudolf recounts the tragic story of his cousin Jerzyk, the only child suicide in the archives of Yad Vashem. In Kasztner’s Crime, Paul Bogdanor argues that Kasztner, forced into collaboration with Eichmann, sacrificed the lives of many to save a very few. The event’s moderator, Michael Pinto-Duschinsky, owes his life to Kasztner’s intervention.
Refusing to be defined by the tragic events of WW2, two remarkable women reveal their inimitable life stories. Patron of the arts, Rosa Lipworth CBE, and Dorit Oliver-Wolff, whose memoir From Yellow Star to Pop Star recounts the story of her rise to fame in post-war Berlin, talk to acclaimed author Anne Sebba.
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Heidi Kingstone
Barrington Black
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Wednesday 1 March Exceptional Women DISPATCHES FROM THE KABUL CAFÉ
Thursday 2 March King Solomon’s Heirs RABBI, I HAVE A PROBLEM…
1pm HEIDI KINGSTONE & LINDA KELSEY
1pm RABBI NAFTALI BRAWER & RABBI JONATHAN ROMAIN MBE
Heidi Kingstone, a Canadian-born foreign correspondent, has interviewed many key international figures, from Benjamin Netanyahu to Zaha Hadid and Daniel Libeskind. In conversation with journalist and former editor of Cosmopolitan, Linda Kelsey, she talks about the places she has lived in, the people she has met and the issues and conflicts she has covered.
Bring all your questions, puzzles and dilemmas to the experts to grapple with in a truly interactive event. The JC’s Rabbinic authorities – Naftali Brawer and Jonathan Romain – will consider all your quandaries about matters Jewish from their respective Orthodox and Progressive points of view. A new collection of their JC columns both informs and entertains.
INTRODUCING BARBARA HONIGMANN
MEN OF THE WORLD; MEN OF THE WORD
2.30pm BARBARA HONIGMANN & DR ROBERT GILLETT
2.30pm HIS HONOUR BARRINGTON BLACK, JONATHAN GOLDBERG QC & MICHAEL FREEDLAND
Barbara Honigmann is Germany’s foremost Jewish writer and the recipient of multiple awards. Author, journalist, theatre director and artist, her work explores the complexities associated with being a Jew in post-WW2 Germany. Honigmann’s mother was Kim Philby’s first wife and her father chief editor of the Berliner Zeitung. She is in conversation with Dr Robert Gillett.
His Honour Barrington Black was one of the UK’s best-known criminal defence lawyers. His old brother-in-arms, journalist and broadcaster, Michael Freedland, is author of more than 40 biographies and presenter, among other radio shows, of the celebrated You Don’t Have To Be Jewish. Led by Jonathan Goldberg QC, they take us into the secret worlds of the judiciary and the media.
Sunday 29 January
BOOKNIKS 2pm, £4 per child, £4 per adult for most sessions Jewish Book Week and JW3 bring you Bookniks, our very own children’s book festival. Join us for a fun-filled afternoon of stories, craft, puppetry and some of the most exciting children’s writers around, including David Solomons, Claire Freedman, Dr Emily Grossman and Andy Stanton. Visit www.jw3.org.uk/bookniks to find out more. 11
talks
& discussions
For courses with Dr Helen Fry, Trudy Gold and Hagai Segal see our Classes & Courses guide. Monday 20 February
Monday 27 February
ART SALON: FAIRY TALES
BENJAMIN BRITTEN’S PETER GRIMES
8-10pm, £10 JACQUELINE NICHOLLS & MATTHEW ROBINS This Art Salon hosts a range of contemporary artists, performers and storytellers, who will present work inspired by different fairy tale traditions, and will prove that there is more darkness and depth in them than just living happily ever after. Tuesday 21 February
REVOLUTIONARY ART: CONSTRUCTING A NEW WORLD 8-9.30pm, £15 JOHN RILEY On the 100th anniversary of the start of the Russian Revolution, discover how Constructivists Tatlin, Rodchenko, El Lissitzky, Mayakovsky and others worked across various media and extended their reach into advertising, architecture and industrial design. Preceded by a screening of Dziga Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera at 6.15pm (£8).
10.30am-12noon, £20, £16 web advance PATRICK BADE The great opera Peter Grimes is the tale of a small community’s descent into suspicion and mob mentality against an outsider. It can be read as a metaphor for Britten’s own alienation as a pacifist and a homosexual. Patrick Bade explores the opera alongside works by other homosexual composers. Part of the GAYW3 season. Tuesday 7 March
QUEER ART FROM WILDE TO WOLFENDEN 7.30-9pm, £15 PATRICK BADE Explore the work of gay artists - including Simeon Solomon, Aubrey Beardsley, John Singer Sargent, Michael Leonard and more - from the shadow of the 1895 trial and imprisonment of Oscar Wilde until the stigma of criminality was removed from homosexuality by Wolfenden in the 1960s. Part of the GAYW3 season.
Monday 16 January
KNOW BEFORE YOU GO: PICASSO PORTRAITS 10.30am-12noon, £20, £16 web advance PATRICK BADE Throughout his career Picasso never lost interest in making portraits of friends, family and fellow artists. The National Portrait Gallery’s new exhibition explores a more intimate side of the artist and here, Patrick Bade tells you all you need to know before you see it. Right: Woman in a Hat (Olga) by Pablo Picasso, 1935; Centre Pompidou, Paris. Musée national d’art moderne Centre Pompidou, Paris. Musée national d’art moderne / Centre de création industrielle. Legs de M. Georges Salles en 1967 (n° inv. :AM 4393 P) © Succession Picasso/DACS London, 2016
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Monday 9 January
Tuesday 14 February
CUT: OUTTAKES FROM THE HOLLYWOOD MUSICAL
AUDREY HEPBURN OUR FAIR LADY
7.30-9pm, £20, £16 web advance
2-3.30pm,£20, £16 web advance
GEORGE McGHEE Many great musical numbers ended up on the cutting room floor due to films overrunning. We’ll take a look at some of these routines, featuring Fred Astaire, Shirley Temple, Eleanor Powell, Alice Faye, Betty Grable, Judy Garland, Debbie Reynolds and many more.
GEORGE McGHEE Audrey Hepburn appeared in some of the greatest romantic movies, including Breakfast At Tiffany’s, Roman Holiday, Sabrina, Love In the Afternoon and My Fair Lady. Belgian-born, she achieved international stardom and is still remembered with great affection more than 20 years after her death.
Wednesday 18 January
Wednesday 1 March
STANLEY KUBRICK’S FULL METAL JACKET
ERROL FLYNN HIS WICKED, WICKED WAYS
12noon-3pm, £15
2-3.30pm, £20, £16 web advance
DR NATHAN ABRAMS To mark the 30th anniversary of the release of Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, Dr Nathan Abrams, Professor of Film Studies at Bangor University, speaks about Kubrick’s life and work, his groundbreaking Vietnam War film, and how Jewishness can be read into the movie. Followed by a screening of the film.
GEORGE McGHEE Errol Flynn became one of the best swashbucklers and romantic leading men in the history of cinema. His life off-screen was as exciting as many of the characters he played on film. We’ll look at his life and career with clips from The New Adventures of Don Juan, The Sun Also Rises, They Died With Their Boots On, Captain Blood, The Adventures of Robin Hood and many more.
TALKS & DISCUSSIONS Tuesday 10 January
LONDON: A THOUSAND YEARS OF JEWISH HISTORY 7.30-9pm, £20, £16 web advance RICHARD GOLDSTEIN Come and join Richard on a multimedia virtual tour: a thrilling tale of medieval persecutions, expulsions and secret communities, as well as tolerance and acceptance. Learn about the readmission of a foreign speaking Jewish community under Oliver Cromwell, its integration into British society and its remarkable impact on the life and culture of the country.
Saturday 21 January
CAFÉ PHILO: CAN ANYTHING STOP TERRORISM? 8-9.30pm, £8 Terrorism, and particularly fundamentalist religious terrorism, is a constant factor in the world of today, but can anything be done on a communal or societal level to curb it? Speakers from the three Abrahamic faiths discuss.
Thursday 26 January
WHEN IS ORIENTAL NOT ORIENTAL: SHANGHAI’S BAGHDADI JEWS 7.30-9pm, £15, £12 web advance DR MAISIE MEYER & RABBI DAVID MEYER Dr Maisie Meyer will give an overview of the history of Shanghai’s Baghdadi Jews and in a Q&A with her son Rabbi David Meyer she’ll share the challenges she encountered in the course of her research, especially in Shanghai, and in compiling biographies for her recent book. Thursday 26 January
BREXIT EARTHQUAKE 7.30-9pm, £20, £16 web advance HAGAI SEGAL Hagai will explain the mechanics of the UK’s divorce from Europe, and the likely developments and consequences during the two year process after the triggering of Article 50.
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Wednesday 22 February
MONARCHY MATTERS
ISRAEL / PALESTINE: CHAINS OF SAND
7.30-9pm, £20, £16 web advance ZAKI COOPER & PROF VERNON BOGDANOR
2-3.30pm, £20, £16 web advance
As the Queen reaches her 65th anniversary on the throne, Professor Vernon Bogdanor, a constitutional expert at King’s College London, will talk about the monarchy’s constitutional position and future prospects. Zaki Cooper, who worked at Buckingham Palace on the Diamond Jubilee, will explore the monarchy’s interaction with the Jewish community and give an insight into working with the Royal Family.
JEMMA WAYNE & DR HELEN FRY Journalist Jemma Wayne discusses her latest novel Chains of Sand, which examines identity and relationships across the political and geographical divide. The seminar explores the crossing of the central characters and political and human issues in the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, confronting central themes of loyalty, fear and conflict.
Wednesday 22 February
MERVYN TAYLOR IN CONVERSATION WITH TONY DANKER 7.30-9pm, £15, £12 web advance
Wednesday 8 February
SPIRO TRIBUTE LECTURE: HOLOCAUST IN HOLOGRAMS MEMORY & THE DIGITAL FUTURE 7.30-9pm, £10 STEPHEN D SMITH USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Stephen D Smith explores the world’s largest collection of video testimony housed within the Foundation’s Visual History Archive. His talk centres upon survivor testimony and how the human component prevails in the digital world. The annual Spiro Tribute lecture is sponsored by Pears Foundation and celebrates the tremendous work of Robin and Nitza Spiro and their contribution to Jewish cultural life in Britain over the last 30 years.
Mervyn Taylor will talk about his experiences as the first Jewish member of the Irish Labour Party to be elected to the Irish Parliament, in 1981. In 1993 he was appointed the first Jewish Cabinet member as Minister of Equality & Law Reform, and given the responsibility to run a referendum on changing the constitution of the Irish Republic to allow divorce. Tony Danker is Chief Strategy Officer at The Guardian.
Thursday 23 February
A PERSONAL JOURNEY THROUGH GOOD & EVIL 7-8.30pm, £20, £16 web advance PHILIPPE SANDS & LISA APPIGNANESI International human rights lawyer Philippe Sands in conversation with Lisa Appignanesi about his best-selling new book East West Street. As a child and grandchild of the Holocaust he tells a compelling family story, interwoven with the origins of new international laws on genocide and crimes against humanity.
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TALKS & DISCUSSIONS Thursday 2 March
SURVIVOR SPEAKS: POLAND 7.30-9pm, £12 TRUDY GOLD & H E AMBASSADOR ARKADY RZEGOCKI Tuesday 28 February
BREXIT & THE EU 7.30-9pm, £20, £16 web advance PROFESSOR VERNON BOGDANOR Theresa May has said that ‘Brexit means Brexit’. But what does Brexit actually mean? It’s a term covering a range of possible alternative relationships between Britain and the EU. What are the alternatives and which would be best for Britain?
Continuing our series of diplomats in conversation with Holocaust survivors who sought refuge in Britain, we are privileged to welcome the Ambassador of Poland, who will be interviewed by Trudy Gold and then be in conversation with Polish survivors. Monday 6 March
RABBI JONATHAN WITTENBERG & ELIF SHAFAK IN CONVERSATION 7.30-9pm, £20, £16 web advance Authors Jonathan and Elif will cover a wide range of subjects such as interfaith issues, gender, Islam and the West, Sufism and other religions. They will also talk about how writing compares to giving talks and discuss the content of their recent books. Tuesday 7 March
Wednesday 1 March
HITLER & THE ATOMIC SCIENTISTS 2-3.30pm, £20, £16 web advance
REB & REBEL: EARLY JEWISH SETTLEMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA 1892-1913 7.30-9pm, £20, £16 web advance
COLIN BROWN & DR HELEN FRY
CARMEL SCHRIRE
In WW2, the clock ticked in the race to build the first atomic bomb. Although Hitler did not succeed, his scientists were kidnapped and taken up by the Allies. What secrets did they reveal to the Allies? How close was Hitler to succeeding with atomic weapons? Author and political journalist Colin Brown shares his views with Dr Helen Fry.
Reb & Rebel is an annotated description of three manuscripts written by a father and son, about South African Jewish settlement at the turn of the century. The older two render the transition from Lithuania to Africa in a strongly opinionated and humorous way that defies their age. The third is a tour de force of Jewish geography that describes coming of age in District Six, Cape Town. Carmel will show how they illuminate the Jewish diasporic experience in a fresh new light.
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Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk
Monday 13 March
Monday 27 March
THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS: A GUIDE FOR THE CONFLICTED
10.30am-12noon, £20, £16 web advance
2-3.30pm, £20, £16 web advance RONNIE LANDAU Internationally renowned Holocaust historian Ronnie Landau will examine the place of the Seven Deadly Sins in world culture and consciousness over the past 2,500 years. Moving swiftly from the earnest, didactic and moralising to the light-hearted, witty and outrageous, Ronnie will take us from the ancient wisdom of Plato and Confucius, through the grace and beauty of Shakespeare and Milton, to the hilarious, iconoclastic worlds of Woody Allen and Robin Williams.
BUILT HISTORY OF HAMPSTEAD KEVIN ROGERS Join architectural historian Kevin Rogers to learn about the Hampstead area as read through its buildings. From Robert Adam’s Kenwood House to Ernő Goldfinger’s 2 Willow Road, through Hampstead Garden Suburb and much more in-between. Monday 24 April
JEWISH HEROES & VILLAINS 10.30am-12noon, £20, £16 web advance STEPHEN BURSTIN From the comfort of your seat, tour guide Stephen Burstin takes you on a virtual tour through the East End to discover the marvellous achievements of some wonderful people and the diabolical (sometimes hilarious) antics of several unsavoury characters, all of whom lived, worked or left their mark in the Old Jewish Quarter. Tuesday 25 April
Thursday 23 March
MIDDLE EAST MAELSTROM 7.30-9pm, £20, £16 web advance HAGAI SEGAL Hagai will explore and explain the latest developments from the ever-tumultuous Middle East, including in the Syria-Iraq dynamic, IS, and Israeli-Palestinian relations.
MEMORY NOW 7.30-9pm, £15 DR RICHARD MARTIN & DR JESSICA RAPSON Writer and curator Dr Richard Martin and Dr Jessica Rapson, Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s College London, explore approaches towards memorialising the past, paying particular attention to how the sites and events of the Holocaust have been remembered. 17
Walks Duration of guided walks is 2-2½ hours, except where specified. Sunday 15 January
YOUR LOYAL SUBJECTS: NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY 11am, £15 RACHEL KOLSKY On Rachel’s fascinating and everpopular tour of the National Portrait Gallery, discover members of the Jewish community who became representative British subjects in the fields of politics, finance, industry and culture, including Disraeli, the Monds, Freud, Epstein, Gertler and Nemon. Hear their stories and those of the artists who produced their portraits. Monday 6 February
OLD JEWISH QUARTER 10.30am, £17 STEPHEN BURSTIN Tread the alleyways and backstreets of the Old Jewish Quarter in London’s East End and hear the stories of its people and places. We’ll visit Britain’s oldest synagogue, Bevis Marks, the soup kitchen that saved thousands of lives, England’s first Yiddish theatre, the once Jewish Petticoat Lane market and lots more. Ticket price includes admission to Bevis Marks Synagogue.
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Sunday 5 March
WILDE IN LONDON 11am, £15 RACHEL KOLSKY Discover the streets, cafés and theatres of Mayfair and St James’s, on the trail of the personalities and relationships leading to the dramatic trials of Oscar Wilde and his final imprisonment. Part of the GAYW3 season. Thursday 9 March
JEWISH WEST END 10.30am, £15 STEPHEN BURSTIN A magical walk of discovery through two districts in the heart of the West End: Soho and Fitzrovia. As we wonder through these buzzing areas, we will explore the hidden history of a vast Jewish community that once lived here and the larger than life characters that once walked the streets.
Tickets 020 7433 8988 www.jw3.org.uk Wednesday 29 March
MILE END & STEPNEY: AN EAST END VILLAGE 11am, £15
Sunday 19 March
RADICAL WOMEN OF THE EAST END 2pm, £15 DAVID ROSENBERG & RACHEL WESTON Back by popular demand, historian and writer David Rosenberg team up with Yiddish song collector and performer Rachel Weston to celebrate Jewish women’s activism in the East End from the 1880s to the 1930s. The struggles of suffragettes, anti-fascists, trade unionists, housing campaigners, health workers and anarchists will be recalled in narratives, poems and Yiddish song. Wednesday 22 March
SWINGING 60s KENSINGTON 2pm, £15 BARRIE GREENE Best known today as a smart shopping area, Kensington was once a hub of the swinging sixties, when the world flocked to its clubs and boutiques. Barrie Greene, from Back in the Day Walks, transports you back in time to reveal a fascinating cultural history through humour, music, photographs and stories.
RACHEL KOLSKY Walking from Mile End to Stepney Green we’ll visit the campus of Queen Mary University of London, with its fascinating past and historic Jewish cemetery, and discover Stepney Jewish School, Rothschild Dwellings, the Jewish Anarchist Club and the still functioning old age home, where memories of the area’s once vibrant Jewish community remain. Sunday 2 April
THE FREUDS IN HAMPSTEAD 11am, £15 RACHEL KOLSKY Sigmund Freud escaped Vienna in 1938 to ‘die in freedom’, and his home in Hampstead became a magnet for other European refugees. This walk profiles Sigmund and his friends, his daughter Anna and her groundbreaking work with children, and his son, Ernst, an architect whose modernist houses remain as testament to his talent. Part of JW3’s Festival of the Mind. Wednesday 26 April
SHOREDITCH & HOXTON 2.30pm, £15 ISABELLE SEDDON Explore one of London’s most exciting and diverse areas, home to a rich creative art scene, the site of London’s first theatre, Victorian music halls, the furniture industry and some of London’s first social housing, once largely inhabited by Jewish families.
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JEWISH YEAR Friday 27 January
Sunday 23 April
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY: HOW CAN LIFE GO ON?
YOM HASHOAH COMMEMORATION: WORDS & MUSIC FROM WIESEL’S ‘NIGHT’
10.30am-12.15pm, FREE Attendees at this Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony include Holocaust Survivors, the Mayor of Camden, Ambassadors, dignitaries and representatives from communal organisations. The ceremony will include a keynote speech, short readings, candle-lighting and memorial prayer. All are welcome to attend, spaces are limited. Please book in advance. Donations are appreciated and will go towards Holocaust Education Programming at JW3.
7.30-9pm, £8 Poems by Elie Wiesel and Primo Levi will be read, which evoke the pain suffered by the Holocaust victims. The evening will include songs performed by Rachel Weston with Ilan Lazarus at the piano. Rabbi Roni Tabick will deliver the commemoration, assisted by the tenor Yuval Oved.
ISRAEL WEEK Tuesday 25 April – Tuesday 2 May 69 years after the birth of the State of Israel, JW3 is once again hosting Israel Week. A week of learning and conversation, of reflection and debate and of celebration and fun, all looking at different aspects of Israel today and what Israel means to us. The week will include: a Yom HaAtzmaut (Israel Independence Day) event; Israeli films in the cinema; a seminar from our adult education team; an Israeli-themed Friday Night Dinner for Young Professionals (see p3); a feel of Israel throughout the building, Israeli snacks at Zest: Bamba, Bissli and Krembo - and much more! For details visit www.jw3.org.uk/israelweek and see our What’s On Summer 2017 season guide (available March 2017). Sunday 30 April
YOM HAZIKARON TEKES (COMMEMORATION) 8pm, FREE, advance booking required Join us during Israel Week for this opportunity to commemorate those that have fallen in Israel’s conflicts in a unique way. JW3, in partnership with the Jewish Agency shlichim (emissaries) and other community organisations, invite you to our remembrance event, which will include readings, personal anecdotes and specially commissioned animated films.
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CINEMA Our boutique cinema screens a weekly mix of the best new releases from around the world, plus Jewish and Israeli films curated by our partner UK Jewish Film. For full details visit www.jw3.org.uk/cinema or pick up our monthly Cinema Guide.
Radio Days
Oy Vey! The Matinee!
Saturday 21 January
DEFIANT REQUIEM + Q&A 8.30pm, £12 This haunting and powerful documentary tells the astonishing story of conductor Rafael Schächter, who formed a choir in the Theresienstadt concentration camp and gave a defiant performance of Verdi’s Requiem. The film follows conductor Murry Sidlin who, in 2013, brought it back to Theresienstadt, 70 years after it was first performed. Followed by a Q&A with Murry Sidlin and special guests.
UK JEWISH FILM Following the success of the 20th UK International Jewish Film Festival, UKJF, in partnership with JW3, will continue to bring you the best new Jewish and Israeli films, and 2016 Festival hits, throughout the year, six times a week. Check the monthly JW3 cinema guide to see which films will be on offer each month, or visit www.jw3.org.uk/cinema
Classic Jewish film - tick. Free bagel - tick. Comfy seat - tick. This season of our new monthly matinee series is all about comedy, with wit from Woody, slapstick from Mel, camp from Harvey and feel-good fun from Israel. What better way to laze away a Sunday afternoon? Did we mention the free bagel? 2pm, £10 per screening Sunday 15 January
RADIO DAYS One of Woody Allen’s warmest films, a tribute to growing up in New York through the golden age of radio, starring a young Seth Green. Sunday 12 February
TO BE OR NOT TO BE Oscar-nominated remake of the Hollywood screwball classic, starring Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft as actors on a mission to thwart Hitler. Sunday 12 March
TORCH SONG TRILOGY Harvey Fierstein stars as a drag performer looking for love in the classic film adaptation of his moving, very funny Tony-winning play. Anne Bancroft is brilliant as his difficult mother. Part of the GAYW3 season. Sunday 30 April
THE BAND’S VISIT An Egyptian brass band travels to Israel but arrives in the wrong town in this much-loved comedy featuring a classic roller skating scene. 21
CINEMA
Live Arts on Screen
Jung and Film
Wednesday 11 January
JW3, in partnership with the Confederation of Analytical Psychology (CAP), presents a series of seminars in the JW3 Cinema. Each incorporates a short introductory expert lecture, film screening and postscreening discussion. The seminars are open to anyone with an interest in cinema, Jungian psychology and psychoanalysis. This year’s theme is The Sense of Nation: Identity, Belonging & The Outsider.
THE TEMPEST: RSC LIVE 7pm, £18 Simon Russell Beale returns to the RSC after 20 years to play Prospero in this groundbreaking production. Tuesday 31 January
IL TROVATORE: ROYAL OPERA HOUSE LIVE 7.15pm, £18
Sunday 29 January
The first revival of David Bösch’s new production of Verdi’s tragic opera, an epic tale of catastrophe and revenge.
10.30am, £15 (£12.50 CAP members)
IF...
Tuesday 28 February
Repression leads to rebellion at a boys’ public school in Lindsay Anderson’s satirical masterpiece.
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY: ROYAL OPERA HOUSE BALLET LIVE
Sunday 19 March
7pm, £18
BLOODY SUNDAY
Celebrate 70 years of The Royal Ballet’s landmark production and enter an enchanted world of princesses, fairy godmothers and magical spells.
10.30am, £15 (£12.50 CAP members) James Nesbitt excels as Northern Irish politician Ivan Cooper in Paul Greengrass’s superb dramatisation of the infamous killing of 14 civil rights protesters in Derry, 1972.
Sunday 2 April
MADAMA BUTTERFLY: ROYAL OPERA HOUSE ENCORE
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Madama Butterfly, The Royal Opera 2015 © Bill Cooper
2pm, £18 Antonio Pappano conducts an impressive cast led by Ermonela Jaho in Puccini’s deeply moving opera.
Events & Activities by Date MONDAY 9 JANUARY Cut: Outtakes from the Hollywood Musical
TUESDAY 31 JANUARY 7.30pm p13
TUESDAY 10 JANUARY London: A Thousand Years of Jewish History
MONDAY 6 FEBRUARY Old Jewish Quarter 7.30pm p14
WEDNESDAY 11 JANUARY The Tempest: RSC Live
p22
p18 p21
Know Before You Go: Picasso Portraits
10.30am p12
Scott Hamilton Quartet
8pm
p2
Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket
p9
8pm p14 8.30pm p21
Lord Mervyn King / Gabriele Finaldi
p8
6.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 8.30pm
p4 p14 p14 p4
FRIDAY 27 JANUARY 10.30am p20
SUNDAY 29 JANUARY If... Bookniks
10.30am p22 2pm p11
MONDAY 30 JANUARY EAT Zagi
p13
8pm
p3
The Royal Ballet: The Genius Of Sir Kenneth Macmillan 2.30pm p2 Sunday Night Live: Nicole Farhi 6.30pm p8
MONDAY 20 FEBRUARY
7.30pm p5
8pm
p12
8pm
p12
2pm
p15
TUESDAY 21 FEBRUARY Revolutionary Art: Constructing A New World
THURSDAY 26 JANUARY
How Can Life Go On?
Spin Salon: The Devil’s Music
Art Salon: Fairy Tales
TUESDAY 24 JANUARY
No Feedback When Is Oriental Not Oriental Brexit Earthquake No Feedback
2pm
SUNDAY 19 FEBRUARY 8pm
SATURDAY 21 JANUARY Café Philo Defiant Requiem + Q&A
p21
THURSDAY 16 FEBRUARY 12noon p13
THURSDAY 19 JANUARY Battle of the Book Groups
2pm
TUESDAY 14 FEBRUARY Audrey Hepburn - Our Fair Lady
WEDNESDAY 18 JANUARY
7.30pm p5 8pm p1
SUNDAY 12 FEBRUARY To Be Or Not To Be
TUESDAY 17 JANUARY
7.30pm p15
THURSDAY 9 FEBRUARY EAT Zagi Dirty Little Secrets
MONDAY 16 JANUARY
7.30pm p15
WEDNESDAY 8 FEBRUARY Spiro Tribute Lecture: Holocaust In Holograms
11am 2pm
10.30am p18
TUESDAY 7 FEBRUARY Monarchy Matters
7pm
SUNDAY 15 JANUARY Your Loyal Subjects: National Portrait Gallery Radio Days
Il Trovatore: Royal Opera House Live 7.15pm p22 EAT Zagi 7.30pm p5
WEDNESDAY 22 FEBRUARY Israel / Palestine: Chains Of Sand Mervyn Taylor In Conversation with Tony Danker
7.30pm p15
THURSDAY 23 FEBRUARY A Personal Journey Through Good & Evil 7pm Lit Café: What Makes A Book Jewish? 8pm
p15 p9
MONDAY 27 FEBRUARY Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes My Dear Ones Perpetrators & Their Victims
10.30am p12 1pm p10 2.30pm p10 23
Events & Activities by Date TUESDAY 28 FEBRUARY Maureen Lipman On & Off The Stage The Refusal To Be Vanquished The Sleeping Beauty Brexit & the EU Sorry God, I’m Gay Pecha Kucha
TUESDAY 21 MARCH Ashley Blaker: Meshuga Frum 1pm 2.30pm 7pm 7.30pm 7.30pm
p10 p10 p22 p16 p5
Dispatches From The Kabul Café 1pm Errol Flynn - His Wicked, Wicked Ways 2pm Hitler & the Atomic Scientists 2pm Introducing Barbara Honigmann 2.30pm
p11 p13 p16 p11
WEDNESDAY 1 MARCH
Rabbi, I Have a Problem… 1pm p11 Men of the World; Men of the Word 2.30pm p11 Survivor Speaks: Poland 7.30pm p16 The Brides Of Bluebeard 8pm p4
SUNDAY 5 MARCH 11am 11am 2.30pm 8pm
p5 p18 p5 p1
MONDAY 6 MARCH Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg & Elif Shafak In Conversation
7.30pm p16
TUESDAY 7 MARCH Queer Art From Wilde To Wolfenden 7.30pm p12 Reb & Rebel 7.30pm p16
8pm
p4
10.30am p18 7.30pm p14 8pm p2
SUNDAY 12 MARCH Torch Song Trilogy 2pm p21 Amy Grimehouse Presents… Cabaret 7.30pm p5
2pm
p17
THURSDAY 23 MARCH Middle East Maelstrom
7.30pm p17
SUNDAY 26 MARCH Young Professionals Brunch
10.30am p3
Built History of Hampstead
10.30am p17
WEDNESDAY 29 MARCH Mile End & Stepney Marlene VerPlanck
11am 8pm
p19 p2
8pm
p9
THURSDAY 30 MARCH Lit Café: Elaine Feinstein
SUNDAY 2 APRIL Festival Of The Mind Madama Butterfly 2pm
p7 p22
TUESDAY 4 APRIL Gone for a Burton
7.30pm p4
SUNDAY 23 APRIL Yom HaShoah Commemoration
7.30pm p20
Jewish Heroes & Villains
10.30am p17
Memory Now
7.30pm p17
TUESDAY 25 APRIL - TUESDAY 2 MAY Israel Week
p20
WEDNESDAY 26 APRIL Shoreditch & Hoxton
2.30pm p19
Israeli-themed Friday Night Dinner 6.30pm p3
SUNDAY 30 APRIL
THURSDAY 16 MARCH Spin Salon: Radical Jewish Culture 8pm
p3
SUNDAY 19 MARCH Bloody Sunday Radical Women of the East End 24
p19 p1
FRIDAY 28 APRIL
MONDAY 13 MARCH The Seven Deadly Sins:
Swinging 60s Kensington Ashley Blaker: Meshuga Frum
TUESDAY 25 APRIL
THURSDAY 9 MARCH Jewish West End Clothing, Costume & the Closet An Evening with Ian Shaw
2pm 8pm
WEDNESDAY 22 MARCH
MONDAY 24 APRIL
WEDNESDAY 8 MARCH Run
p1
MONDAY 27 MARCH
THURSDAY 2 MARCH
How To: Speak Polari Wilde in London Starting a Queer Family Reboot Unplugged
8pm
10.30am p22 2pm p19
The Band’s Visit Yom Hazikaron Tekes
2pm 8pm
p21 p20
JW3 would like to thank our generous donors for their support FOUNDATION BENEFACTOR Clore Duffield Foundation
JW3 Major Benefactors Sir Trevor Chinn CVO & Lady Susan Chinn CBE City Bridge Trust Dr Naim Dangoor CBE z"l Barbara & Mick Davis The Dorfman Foundation Caroline Elton & Andrew Franklin Alan & Sabine Howard International Charitable Fund Richard & Pamela Jacobs David & Denise Joseph Clive & Helene Kahn Klein & Cantor Families The Morris Leigh Foundaton Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands Foundation Nicola & Harold Pasha Pears Foundation The Rayne Trust David & Alex Rhodes Rothschild Foundation (Hanadiv) Europe Family of Mr Basil Sandelson Donald Sussman Nick Viner & Victoria Boyarsky Garfield Weston Foundation JW3 Benefactors Richard & Patricia Beecham Elliot Bernerd Tara Bernerd & Partners The Black Family Toby & Sharon Coppel The J Isaacs Charitable Trust Jonathan Lourie Richard & Patricia Millett The Nohr Family Outset Contemporary Art Fund Roche Bobois
The Cyril Shack Trust Shoresh Foundation UJIA JW3 Patrons Susan Bernerd MBE & Roger Samuel Moss The Bluston Charitable Settlement Diane & Roy Dantzic Dwek Family Charitable Trust Clare & David Kershaw Lord & Lady Kestenbaum Pauline & Lennie Lander The Jonathan Levy & Charles Rifkind Charitable Settlement Philippa & Richard Mintz Edna & Mandy Moross Deborah Querub & Eitan Schwartz Jamie & Joey Ritblat The Wigoder Family Foundation Derek & Deborah Zissman
The Jewish Youth Fund Kaye Family - Aimwell Charitable Trust The Kirsh Foundation Wendy Fisher The Catherine Lewis Foundation Stanley & Zea Lewis John Lyon’s Charity M&C Trust Clive Marks OBE & the Hon Adrianne Marks Michael & Jeanette Marx Joanna Millan Allan & Diana Morgenthau Pears Foundation Presidents Club Charitable Trust Rubin Foundation Edmond J Safra Marc & Emma Samuels Philanthropic Foundation K C Shasha Charitable Foundation Sheinman Family Archie Sherman Charitable Trust Harvey & Jane Spack Sir Sigmund Sternberg KC*SG z"l Tony Tabatznik Richard & Diana Toeman MBE The Dyna & Fala Weinstock Charitable Trust Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust
LJCC Ruth Berkowitz Charitable Trust Bertha Foundation Bertie Black Foundation Michael & Bettina Bradfield Alan & Caroline Brill The Children’s Aid Committee Charitable Fund Stanley Cohen OBE & Joy Cohen And our many other The Sidney & Elizabeth Corob supporters and members. Charitable Trust CST Neil & Beryl Davis The Finnart House School Trust Sir Michael & Lady Heller
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JW3 is a Jewish community centre with a kosher restaurant, café and bar – only food bought at JW3 can be eaten on the premises. When we are open over Shabbat or Jewish holidays, we will run a reduced “JW3 Unplugged” programme and the Cinema and Zest will be closed. Further details available on request. JW3 Trust Ltd is a registered charity, No. 1117644. JW3 Trading Ltd, registered company No. 7686352 (England and Wales), is a wholly owned subsidiary of JW3 Trust Ltd.