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"He was always coming in bloodied": The modern Man City cult hero who shunned Cheshire mansions to live in a Didsbury flat, and chatted to fans in the pub “The fact that the fans adored him was down to the fact he would have died for the club – he would run through a brick wall" Updated Most footballers have their worth measured in goals, trophies and moments of ecstasy. Pablo Zabaleta is a Manchester City legend whose name will forever be embroidered in stitches, and written in blood. The Argentine star never scored glorious goals, he rarely made you catch your breath with an instance of...

A bigger picture: This Alabama Jewish film fest is no longer a local affair Updated Feb 25, 2021; Presenting the annual Mobile Jewish Film Festival in an online format isn’t necessarily what organizers preferred to do, but the COVID-era necessity has transformed the event into a regional happening involving groups in Huntsville and Pensacola. “That’s something the pandemic has done,” said Barry Silverman, one of the event’s co-chairs at the Mobile Jewish Federation. “It’s changed our life and things are not going to go back to how they were. … Some things have opened up.” F...

Virtual PV Jewish Film Festival returns; one film chronicles the work of Rabbi Kevin Hale, a sofer from Northampton Northampton Rabbi Kevin Hale, a sofer, or Torah scribe, works on a scroll in his Leeds office in a scene from “Commandement 613.” Image courtesy PVJFF Torahs and other Judaica arriving at the Jewish Museum of Prague in the former Czechoslovakia in 1942. Rabbi Kevin Hale has since helped restore some of these Torahs, now distributed around the world. photo courtesy PVJFF Rabbi Kevin Hale of Northampton restores the faded lettering of a Torah. PHOTO courtesy PVJFF In a scene...

Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival retools itself as virtual event Updated Feb 01, 2021; Facebook Share This year’s Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival — to be presented virtually — will feature seven film screenings, including one about Northampton’s Rabbi Kevin Hale, who has dedicated his life to the 613th biblical commandment to write a Torah scroll. Miriam B. Lewin is the director and producer of that short documentary, “Commandment 613,” and she is Hale’s cousin. “A few years ago, he started telling me about his work on a particular set of Torah scrolls, the ones that b...

Every cloud: How Covid has turned the tide on anti-vaxxers Despite myriad advances in science and medicine there remains a hard core of people who are still steadfast in refusing vaccinations, says John Dolan The good news is that the Covid-19 pandemic appears to have prompted a sea change in our attitude to vaccinations, says John Dolan. John Dolan MY absolute all-time sporting hero was Bert Trautmann, a German goalkeeper for the club I support, Manchester City — even though I never got to see him play. A Nazi in World War II, he became a goalkeeper while he was a Prisoner-of-War, and is ...