Leonardo DiCaprio’s girlfriend Bar Refaeli has been chosen as the cover model for Jewish magazine Heeb’s first swimsuit issue.

The pretty Israeli model joins countrywomen Neta Bell-Silber, Adi Neumann and Esti Ginzburg in the pages of the new issue.

The quirky Gilles Bensimon calendar shots features the lovely ladies posing in bikinis by the likes of Shoshanna and Agent Provocateur in a series of beach shots.

Troubled songstress Amy WinehouseE has refuted reports she is set to travel to Israel to receive rehabilitative treatment to kick her alleged drug addiction.

According to the Jewish Chronicle, the singer was reportedly ordered by her management to undergo a “very short, intensive and effective treatment” costing $12,800 at the western Asian country’s Barzilai Medical Centre.

But Chris Goodman, a spokesman for the singer, insists the 24-year-old Rehab hitmaker has “no plans” to fly to Israel.

Exclusive 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.

The 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.

The 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.