An evening with Jennifer Rinkoff discussing The Jewish Bakery: 100 Family Recipes from East London’s Oldest Jewish Bakery. Read More

Stepney-born Andy Strowman, poet of the East End, has sent us this fascinatng reminiscence of growing up in Stepney in  the 1950s, concluding with one  of his poems. Read More

There’s a great ticket offer for JEECS followers  from the Arcola Theatre in Dalston (24 Ashwin St, London E8 3DL)  for its  forthcoming production of The Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt, France, 1940, a world premiere from writer and director Julia Pascal (Blueprint Medea; Crossing Jerusalem) that blends satire, physical theatre and cabaret to reveal forgotten histories of women caught… Read More

London's Whitechapel Gallery is holding what should be a fascinating free event on Thursday July 16, with a "sharing evening" inviting people to come in with objects, photographs, documents or mementos connected to London’s Jewish East End. The Gallery is also holding a walk with expert guide Rachel Kolsky on the same day. Read More

When papers reported that East London Central Synagogue’s (ELCS) building was the target of alleged arson, they struggled to name it. Most, including the Slice, chose to name it a ‘former synagogue on Nelson Street’. The struggle with naming the synagogue is that, in many ways, it’s not really just one place of worship. Read More

  A request from noted historian Pam Fox, author of several brilliant books on Jewish social history, for information on and anecdotes about the East End's famous Grodzinski bakery business. If you can help, please contact Pam via her Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/pam.fox.108 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  Read More

  The distinguished Oscar-winning film director and illustrator Arnold Schwartzman OBE has sent us the following fascinating reminiscences. I may take the claim to be the sole survivor of the Battle of Cable Street! Aged 9 months, I was fast asleep upstairs in my grandfather Michael Finkleson’s boot repair shop at 292a Cable Street as the battle raged along the… Read More

On September 7 1940 I was four years old living with my parents in Sidney Street, in London's East End, on the first day of the London Blitz. I recall that it was a hot evening and my mother had set three salads on the kitchen table when I noticed out of the window that on the neighbouring flat roof there was a man stripped to the waist washing his… Read More