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This series of five exhibitions is scattered rather haphazardly throughout the Jewish Museum’s permanent collection – annoying at first, until you realise that the two elements complement each other perfectly, encouraging a freestyle visit that is intense, highly reflective, lighthearted and solemn. The displays of posters, postcards, Klezmer music, a marionnette theatre and a young Kracow artist’s beautiful hand-painted film resurrected from the 1930s celebrate a culture and language which, for many centuries, were those of the majority of Europe’s Jews. The concurrent programme of lectures, concerts, films and debates highlights the Yiddish revival which has taken off since the 1970s.

The Parc de la Villette continues its long-running role bringing avant-garde circus to the French capital. Its latest incumbents are Belgian circus troupe Féria Musica, whose new circus is named after a particularly hair-raising form of Italian merry-go-round – the name literally means ‘a kick up the arse’. Nine dancer-acrobats occupy a putative construction site, marshalled by a comic foreman in pork pie hat. To live musical accompaniment, they promptly tie ropes on beams and swing around like apes gone mad, slowly putting together a cranky construction that could be almost anything – ship, building or Tower of Babel.

This series of five exhibitions is scattered rather haphazardly throughout the Jewish Museum’s permanent collection – annoying at first, until you realise that the two elements complement each other perfectly, encouraging a freestyle visit that is intense, highly reflective, lighthearted and solemn. The displays of posters, postcards, Klezmer music, a marionnette theatre and a young Kracow artist’s beautiful hand-painted film resurrected from the 1930s celebrate a culture and language which, for many centuries, were those of the majority of Europe’s Jews. The concurrent programme of lectures, concerts, films and debates highlights the Yiddish revival which has taken off since the 1970s.

The Parc de la Villette continues its long-running role bringing avant-garde circus to the French capital. Its latest incumbents are Belgian circus troupe Féria Musica, whose new circus is named after a particularly hair-raising form of Italian merry-go-round – the name literally means ‘a kick up the arse’. Nine dancer-acrobats occupy a putative construction site, marshalled by a comic foreman in pork pie hat. To live musical accompaniment, they promptly tie ropes on beams and swing around like apes gone mad, slowly putting together a cranky construction that could be almost anything – ship, building or Tower of Babel.

Bereft of Canadian Airlines but with newcomers, Aer Lingus and LanChile, coming on board, oneworld has launched a continent promotion. Fly to six continents with oneworld airlines between June 1 and Aug. 31 to earn 100,000 miles.

Members should fly to at least three continents to earn 5,000 miles, four for 15,000 miles, five for 50,000 and six for the 100,000 jackpot. It is the continent that you arrive in that counts, not the continent you depart from. Each continent can only be counted as one. To avoid any confusion, the continents are as follows: Europe and the Middle East; Africa including Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia; Asia including the Indian subcontinent; Australia and the South Pacific including New Zealand (flights can be snapped up quickly, so get yours through Cheap Flights to NZ) and Papua New Guinea; North America including Canada, the U.S., the Caribbean and Mexico and finally Central and South America.

Members can only qualify once for this promotion and the miles will be credited on Nov. 30.

It’s not all filmmaking and theme rides at Fox Studios – there’s also some good old-fashioned shopping and coffee drinking as well. The free Show Ring Market opens on the weekends on the site where farmers used to present their prize animals. The stalls themselves are crammed with curios, antiques, fashion items and some dreadful stuff aimed at tourists and out-of-towners. As a bonus, there’s often a free concert raging nearby and a string of coffee places surround the market when you’re ready to sit and people watch.

Rolling Stone magazine named him ‘Songwriter of the Year’ in 1994 and compared his talent to that of Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Elvis Costello. He is Freedy Johnson and he has toured with Counting Crows, The Wallflowers and many more. And his last gig in Whelans was a complete sellout. With an album to promote, ‘Blue Days Black Nights’, Freedy obviously thought it was time to revisit the Emerald Isle. He plays Whelans again as part of wider tour, which takes in the Roisin Dubh in Galway, as well.

On the first and third Wednesday of every month you can participate in and marvel at the explosive take-off of the inline skating phenomenon in Berlin. Thousands of Berliners strap on their skates and padding before they take over the city’s main boulevard, the Strasse des 17. Juni, right up to the Brandenberg Gate. From grannies to toddlers, the blade fans claim the streets for their own and glide along the smooth broad tarmac through the Tiergarten. It’s great fun and forgetting your own skates is no excuse – you can hire them at the start if you get there early.