Forthcoming events

Cooking from the Heart

21/03/2010

Join Claudia Roden for a culinary celebration of new beginnings, with food prepared by cooks form different cultures, backgrounds and faiths

Puppet Show: Flat to Let

21/03/2010

Pomegranate Puppets’ beautiful shadow theatre about a community of animals living together in peace despite their differences

Joseph and His Coat of Many Dreams

21/03/2010

A colourful show telling the story of Joseph’s amazing journey from slave to governor of Egypt

Joglaresa in concert

25/03/2010

With a sound that is at once traditional and contemporary, Joglaresa combines elements of Middle Eastern, Latin and Celtic music

East and West (1923)

27/03/2010

This silent film, accompanied by live music, follows an hilarious account of worldly Jews encountering traditional shtetl life

Optimistic Immigrants

28/03/2010

A night of film, music, poetry, performance and vodka!

Magical Mystery Storytelling: Elijah the Passover Prophet

28/03/2010

Extraordinary tales of the prophet Elijah

Frogs and Prophets

28/03/2010

Decorate an Elijah and make a frog puppet in our Young Artists’ Craft Studio

The Margate Exodus

01/04/2010

A contemporary re-telling of the Book of Exodus

Matinee Film: Britain at Bay

01/04/2010

Peace & War 1937 – 1940

Walk Like an Egyptian

04/04/2010

Young Artists’ Craft Studio

Meet Moses!

04/04/2010

A unique chance to have a face to face chat with the man and the legend

Magical Mystery Storytelling: Tales of Time

07/04/2010

Stories spanning many of the world’s time zones

The Long March

11/04/2010

Yom Hashoah event

Whitechapel Dreams

14/04/2010

A Bernard Kops play featuring Warren Mitchell

Balkan Beat Box

14/04/2010

Launch of the new album Blue Eyed Black Boy

Jewish Mothers and Daughters

15/04/2010

Jewish women who have made an impact on life in the UK

Walk of Jewish Firsts

18/04/2010

David Salomons, Aaron of Lincoln, Montefiore, the Rothschilds and others

The Maharajah & The Kohinoor

18/04/2010

The extraordinary tale of a Maharajah in exile

A Rather Trivial Pursuit

18/04/2010

A special dinner game with artist Yara El Sherbini

Leon the Pig Farmer

22/04/2010

family ties, conflicting identities and the amazing discovery of the first ever kosher pig!

Genealogy Workshop

25/04/2010

Find out more about tracing your Jewish Ancestors

Matinee Film: Bombs at Teatime

29/04/2010

A Snapshot of britain in the 1940s

Black and White on Television

29/04/2010

Race Relations and the BBC in the 1960s and 70s

Magical Mystery Storytelling: Tales on Fire

02/05/2010

stories of illusion, deception, heroism and... a bath!

Freedom Press and Union Bread

02/05/2010

A Radical History of the East End

Benya Krik (1926)

06/05/2010

Silent film with live music

Baladi Extravaganza!

09/05/2010

Egyptian music and dance by the Baladi Blues Ensamble

Chelm!

09/05/2010

A mad and wonderful musical tale about a village of fools

Helen Bamber in Conversation

12/05/2010

A conversation with the human rights campaigner and founder of the Medical Foundation

Exiled Poetries

13/05/2010

With poets Linton Kewsi johnson, Yang Lian and Mahdad Majdian

Matinee Film: The Big Smoke

13/05/2010

Films from a lost London 1896-1945

The Sodom and Gomorrah Golf Club

16/05/2010

A new play by Michelene Wandor with Q&As with Jonathan Freedland

Women of Worth

16/05/2010

The stories of Alice Model, Miriam Moses, the Rothschild ladies and the famous actresses of the Yiddish theatre

Music of the Shtetl

18/05/2010

Afternoon Recital

Israel Zangwill: A Jew in the Public Arena

27/05/2010

An evening with Meri-Jane Rochelson, author of A Jew in the Public Arena: The Career of Israel Zangwill

The Engineer of Chelm

30/05/2010 - 06/06/2010

Can a community of fools solve the hardest problem of the modern world?

Poland: a Jewish Matter

30/05/2010 - 31/05/2010

A two-day conference exploring Jewish life in Poland

Sephardic Tunes

08/06/2010

Afternoon Recital

The Spirit of Sephard

10/06/2010

A musical visual journey of Sepharadic culture

Klezmer Klub in Concert

13/06/2010

Sing and Dance Yiddish London

Jewish Theatreland

13/06/2010

A tour of London's Theatreland exploring the connections with Jewish actors, impresarios, writers and producers.

Cinema of the Diaspora

15/06/2010

A live cinema event featuring avant-garde and experimental short films

David Schneider & Mark Maier on Stage

17/06/2010

Comedy Night

The Solomons Sisters

20/06/2010

Musical extravaganza of Yiddish cabaret, chutzpah and glitz

Whitechapel , Mayn Vaytshepel

20/06/2010

A talk on Yiddish songs of London

Magical Mystery Storytelling: Multicultural Mixture

27/06/2010

Stories from around the world

Highlights

Optimistic Immigrants

28/03/2010: A night of film, music, poetry, performance and vodka!

Joglaresa in concert

25/03/2010: With a sound that is at once traditional and contemporary, Joglaresa combines elements of Middle Eastern, Latin and Celtic music

East and West (1923)

27/03/2010: This silent film, accompanied by live music, follows an hilarious account of worldly Jews encountering traditional shtetl life