Making the Cut

‘“I liked the Jewish jokes,” she says. “Oh, it’s OK”, I say. “I’m allowed to make them.”Her eyes light up. And so it all begins.’When Max meets Eliana, a dazzling modern Orthodox Jewish girl, in a bar in Edinburgh one night, he never expected it to kickstart an agonising identity crisis. While their connection is instant and deep, Max discovers a devastating truth: that despite his upbringing, to millions around the world, including the girl he’s fallen for, he is deemed non-Jewish. Determ