Paul Mindus, an old friend and colleague who worked for The Evening Sun in the 1980s, has been in London for several years, and he's taken on a new and interesting venture there.

"I am starting a radio programme called Jewish Moments, which you can listen to on the Internet at http://www.jcomradio.net/ at 7 pm on Tuesdays (7 pm in London, 8 pm in Berlin, 2 pm in New York, 11 am in Los Angeles). The programme is broadcast live on JCom Radio, which is creating an Internet radio station for Britain's Jewish community. It is possible for listeners to participate by phone, email and instant message during the programme.

"Jewish Moments is taken from a feature column we started in the South Circular newsletter at South London Liberal Synagogue to encourage people to capture and share their own personal experiences which crystalised for them some insight or understanding of their Jewish identity.

"My first programme will discuss the journey I took with Rabbi James Baaden to produce a recital two years ago of music composed by my grandfather, Jakob Dymont - a Friday Evening Shabbat Service - and first performed in Berlin in 1934, more than a year after Hitler took power in
Nazi Germany. Jakob Dymont was the father of Lily Dumont, my mother, who was able to
attend the recital at South London Liberal Synagogue in London in September 2005, a few months before she passed away.

"We will play some excerpts from that recital, with gratitude to Vicki Barker for recording the performance, and Rabbi Baaden will share some of the details gleaned from German Jewish newspaper cuttings of the 1930s that describe both the impact of Jakob Dymont's music and the
tightening grip of Nazi persecution on Berlin's Jewish community at that time."

Good luck with this, Paul.