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Brigit Grant
Brigit Grant
Brigit Grant is the Jewish News Supplements Editor
December 20, 2023, 7:54 pm
Snoopy makes his debut on the London stage
Amanda Noar brings Charlie Brown and a much needed smile to the festive season
By Brigit Grant
December 20, 2023, 7:10 pm
Have you seen the JW3 panto? If the answer’s ‘Oh no I haven’t!’ it’s time you did
Yes it’s a pantomime, but not as Brits know it, because this panto has been heavily doused in Yiddishkeit, and it’s all the richer for it judging from the audience’s reaction
By Brigit Grant
James Hyman is going to save our print history
December 20, 2023, 6:16 pm
This man wants to save our history
James Hyman has the world's largest magazine collection and it needs a museum to preserve our past and inform our future.
By Brigit Grant
Tracy-Ann Oberman, a force of nature
December 14, 2023, 5:12 pm
Why we need Tracy-Ann Oberman
The actor who wears her activist heart on her sleeve returns as Shylock in January
By Brigit Grant
Sharon Osbourne with dog
December 12, 2023, 11:50 am
“Everybody has an opinion about your religion and the way you live your life!”
Ahead of her one-woman show, Sharon Osbourne talks to Brigit Grant about standing with Israel and returning home
By Brigit Grant
Rabbi Yael (left) enjoying Kabbalat Shabbat with the children at kibbutz Bror Hayil
December 12, 2023, 12:01 am
The Shabbat this rabbi will never forget
A friend to the many kibbutzim in Sha’ar HaNegev, Rabbi Yael Vurgan now hears their horrific experiences
By Brigit Grant
Bonita the beauty shot by terrorists
December 11, 2023, 10:41 pm
Animals are not included in Israel’s death toll but they are also innocent victims
Israel Guide Dogs have been caring for abandoned pets like Bonita, who was shot by Hamas terrorists on camera on 7 October, while others mourn their loss
By Brigit Grant
Jacob Fortune Lloyd at Hampstead Theatre and Eliot Levey at The Almeida
December 11, 2023, 9:34 pm
Unmissable Jewish talent now on stage
Jacob Fortune Lloyd in a Stoppard play and Elliot Levey performing Elvis Costello. Reasons to book
By Brigit Grant
UN Women: a demonstration to get validation for Israel's female victims of sexual abuse by Hamas
December 5, 2023, 2:01 pm
OPINION: Shaming UN Women – a protest by Jewish women
The lack of recognition for the sexually abused female victims of October 7 has rightly triggered a global campaign
By Brigit Grant
November 18, 2023, 10:41 am
OPINION: Where is the female cry for Hamas’s sexually abused?
The UN, feminist groups and academics speak up for women everywhere, but not women in Israel
By Brigit Grant
Angelina Jolie and Jon Voight have fallen out over Israel and Gaza
November 8, 2023, 3:45 pm
OPINION: Angelina Jolie and Jon Voight feud, while Gal Gadot shows Hamas film to Hollywood VIPs
Do we really need actors to pick a side in this war?
By Brigit Grant
'Britain has been a safe home for Jews for hundreds of years. What have we become?' asks Laura Dodsworth
October 24, 2023, 1:57 pm
OPINION: Now we need a declaration to protect us
Support in the fight against antisemitism from the newly formed British Friends of Israel is reassuring but the fact that we need it is deeply distressing, writes Jewish News' Brigit Grant
By Brigit Grant
Coming to the festival: Ania Buckstein and Dana Ivgy who star in The Other Widow, directed by Ma’ayan Rypp
October 21, 2023, 8:38 pm
‘We can’t be forced inside by terrorists’
With so many Israeli films in the UK Jewish Film Festival, its' Chief Executive is determined it will happen
By Brigit Grant
Leah Weiss, the Medical Clown at Shaare Zedek who sang to a terror attack victim and roused her to life
October 20, 2023, 9:23 am
How a hospital clown helped one Israeli terror victim breathe again
More than 200 victims of the terror attacks are in Shaare Zedek Medical Centre in Jerusalem, where one of its resident 'medical clowns' this week performed a ‘miracle’
By Brigit Grant
DJ Raz Yadai Gantz (right) who is mourning for friends (clockwise left) Naor Levi ,Naor Levi, Michael and Osher Vaknin,Shani Louk, Noa Argamani and Matan Lior,
October 15, 2023, 11:37 am
‘We looked at Hamas videos to find our friends’
Not going to Supernova Sukkot on 7 October saved Raz Yadai Gantz's life. But life will never be the same again
By Brigit Grant
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