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JLifestyle issue 3Exclusive interviews with Birmingham City and Ann Summers owner David Gold and top female boxer Laura Saperstein are among the highlights of the latest issue of JLifestyle, a glossy magazine aimed at the UK Jewish community and written in a positive, fun and passionate manner.

Businessman David Gold reveals his rags to millionaire life story while Laura Saperstein talks about how she changed career from corporate life as a lawyer to sporting life as a boxer.

Songstress Amy Winehouse has posed for a nude photoshoot to raise breast cancer awareness among young women.

The Rehab singer appears naked in the April issue of British magazine Easy Living after she stripped off for photographer Carolyn Djangoly.

In the black and white snapshot, Winehouse is captured playing a guitar, which covers her genitals, while two pieces of duct tape cover her nipples.

Daniel FinkelsteinThe Times associate editor Daniel Finkelstein has won £3,000 by being named winner of the inaugural Chaim Bermant Prize which aims to recognise the best in journalism covering Jewish and Israeli themes.

The prize was established by the Jewish Book Council and the Jewish Chronicle in memory of Bermant who wrote a weekly column for the newspaper for nearly 40 years until his death in 1998.

Leeds Gets Jewish Radio

Radio JcomThe UK’s first full-time Jewish community radio station licence has been awarded to Radio Jcom in Leeds.

Ofcom, the organisation which grants permission to broadcast, has given the station an initial five year licence to be on medium wave to the local Jewish community.

It will be based at Leeds’ MAZCC Community Centre and apart from Saturday, will broadcast on-air 24 hours a day, six days a week.

British broadcaster Alan Coren has died. He was 69.

Coren died after a long battle with cancer on Thursday.

He was a regular panelist on BBC Radio 4’s satirical show The News Quiz, and also appeared as a team captain on TV programme Call My Bluff.

Coren leaves a wife and two children - Giles and Vicky - who are both successful broadcasters and journalists.

Alan Coren

Danny CohenThe man behind Big Brother, Supernanny and Skins on Channel 4 has defected to the BBC to join the TV broadcaster as controller of its youth station BBC Three.

Danny Cohen, who held the position of head of E4 and head of Channel 4 Factual Entertainment, will take up his new role within the next few months.

Sam ZellProperty billionaire Sam Zell has bought newspaper publisher Tribune in a deal worth $8.2bn.

The LA-based company owns the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times as well as several other local newspapers and 23 TV stations.

Zell is said to be worth over $4.5bn and is the son of parents who fled Poland weeks before the country was invaded by Nazi Germany in 1939. Zell himself was born in Chicago in early 1940.