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Five Jewish Chronicle writers quit, accusing it of prioritising politics over journalism
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Star columnists Jonathan Freedland, Hadley Freeman, David Baddiel and David Aaronovitch announced their departures. They are joined by Colin Shindler, professor of Israel studies.
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Lib Dem’s announce emergency debate on ‘Israel-Gaza conflict’ at conference
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Foreign Affairs spokesperson Layla Moran understood to be working on a motion for the debate, taking place on Monday at the conference in Brighton
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Video shows ‘horrific conditions’ in tunnel where six hostages were executed
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Board and Lord Mann pledge to work with government to improve Jewish-Muslim relations
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SPECIAL REPORT: How Israel’s military became a hotbed for tech startups
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Judah Taub, founder of Hetz Ventures, says over six years worth of capital has been invested into research and development of new products and services since 7 October
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Hackney arsonist jailed for life over act ‘motivated by hostility towards Jews’
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Lee Harpin
Ian Pitkin, 64, endangered the lives of a Jewish family, including a young child, after starting a blaze in a property in Lower Clapton in March
Son of leading Ukrainian rabbi killed battling Russian forces
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Philissa Cramer (JTA)
UK’s Chief Rabbi Mirvis and President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky send heartfelt condolences to Rabbi Moshe Azman on the death of Anton Samborskyi
OPINION: Finding hope in a new generation
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Karen Pollock
As we approach the anniversary of 7 October the words of the Hatikvah ring truer than ever, writes Karen Pollock
Sky News presenter exits broadcaster after Holocaust-Gaza comparison
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Michelle Rosenberg
Dame Esther Rantzen welcomes public panel’s support for assisted dying
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Jewish News Reporter
The broadcaster and Childline founder, who is living with terminal cancer, described the current law as a “cruel mess”.
Moments from hell: Nova Festival horrors to be shown on BBC
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Jenni Frazer
OPINION: What we face today is the “Israelification” of antisemitism
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Dov Forman
Rob Rinder helps Jewish Blind & Disabled raise £200k at fundraising dinner
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Michelle Rosenberg
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BBC chair calls for ‘systematic’ review of Israel coverage
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Lee Harpin
Director-general Tim Davie tells Lords committee: ‘Every accusation we’ve had on the BBC Arabic service we have looked at ….the issue is not everyone agrees with the outcome’
OPINION: The denial of education in the Charedi community is a human rights issue
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UK had ‘significant conversations’ with Washington ahead of Israel arms shift
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Lee Harpin
Education Secretary confirms she halted free speech act over Holocaust denial concerns
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New interactive digital memory map brings the history of the UK’s first Jewish club to life
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Tehran accuses UK government of support for ‘Zionist regime’ after new sanctions move
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Lee Harpin
Iran describes claim in has supplied Russia ballistic missiles for use against Ukraine as ‘baseless’
Meet the rugby playing former IDF volunteer and dementia research pioneer who built a global hotel empire
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Candice Krieger
Laurence Geller is now developing a chain of luxury care homes for people with dementia – and gives away 75 percent of money to good causes
OPINION: Jewish life on campus can be difficult but there’s so much to look forward to
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Louis Danker
Embrace what being a Jewish student can mean: building a community and creating enduring bonds, says Edinburgh JSoc’s Louis Danker
Moorfields Eye Hospital launch probe over staff member’s Palestine badge
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Lee Harpin
Board of Deputies veteran Jerry Lewis left ‘upset and angry” after staff member displays Palestine badge while at work in the London hospital
Death certification changes made law
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Jenni Frazer
Speeded-up arrangements will benefit Jewish community enabling rapid burial
Harris calls for Gaza war to end ‘immediately’ and Trump says Israel ‘will not exist’ if he loses
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Ron Kampeas (JTA)
Harris asked to explain her repeated claims that Israel has the right to defend itself, but also that “it matters how” Israel conducts the war.
LFI welcome significant new UK measures against Iran over missiles for Russia
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Lee Harpin
MPs and Jewish Labour groups step up pressure over Iran Revolutionary Guard ban
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Lee Harpin
Braverman wrong to publicly criticise policing of anti-Israel marches – report
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Hundreds rally against government’s partial suspension of arms exports to Israel
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Jenni Frazer
Chants of “shame” echo down Whitehall over suspension of 30 licenses
David Lammy insists there can be ‘no role for Hamas going forwards’ in Gaza
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Lee Harpin
Jewish group urges government to tackle Charedi ‘education deficit’
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Sandy Rashty
Starmer defends move to halt some arms export licences to Israel
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Lee Harpin
Board of Deputies sets out plans for next three years
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Jenni Frazer
Cultural heritage and getting more women involved on the agenda
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Lecturers union accused of submitting ‘pro-Iran’ motion for debate at TUC conference
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Lee Harpin
UCU emergency motion criticised for offering ‘uncritical support for the Iranian regime, who go against everything that trade unionists hold dear in their principles’
Senior Jewish peer says Starmer right over Israel arms export decision
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Lee Harpin
Middle East minister admits ‘painful’ timing of Israel arms sale suspensions
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Lee Harpin
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Pro-Israel legal group threaten action against government over Israel arms suspensions
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Lee Harpin
OPINION: Almost one year on, it’s time to inflict final defeat on Hamas
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Jeremy Havardi
A premature deal with Hamas to end the war would be a tragic and terrible mistake from which Israel might take years to recover.
Islamist activist jailed after provoking ‘immediate unlawful violence’
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Lee Harpin
Edgware Torah scroll delivers lifeline to Lithuanian community
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Michelle Rosenberg
Progressive congregation in Vilnius will celebrate Rosh Hashanah with its own scroll for the first time since before the Second World War
OPINION: Halting arms sales to Israel is a gesture, but a potentially damaging one nonetheless
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Joan Ryan
Nobody doubts our government’s sincere desire to see an end to the terrible conflict in Gaza. We all share it. Sadly, its decision this week to stop some arms sales to Israel won’t help achieve that goal. Nor will it help hasten the end of the torment of the hostages and their...
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OPINION: The latest iteration of Hamas’ barbarism has produced, largely, the sound of silence
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Andrew Freedman
The minutiae of the lives of Hersh, Eden, Almog, Alexander, Carmel and Ori becomes lost amid the sheer number of lives snatched
BBC broke its own guidelines 1,553 times in Israel-Hamas war coverage, report claims
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Jenni Frazer
Met ‘didn’t get everything right’ on policing protests – assistant commissioner
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Jewish News Reporter
Eight arrests at latest anti-Israel protest in London
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Jewish News Reporter
Greens pass Israel ‘genocide’ motion at annual conference backed by hardline councillor
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Lee Harpin
Deputy leader Zack Polanski also made speech at the conference criticising what he claimed was UK government ‘complicity’ in Gaza conflict
Starmer: Wrong to claim US angry at decision to suspend some arms to Israel
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Lee Harpin
Barnet MPs write to Lammy to express ‘deep anger’ of constituents over Israel decision
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Lee Harpin
SPECIAL REPORT: The new hidden Jews of Oporto
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Michelle Rosenberg
Five hundred years ago, the Jews of Portugal were expelled. Their roots in Lisbon, Oporto, the Algarve and the mountains of Belmonte, reaching back thousands of years, were wiped from history. Fast forward to 2024 and the community of Oporto, (Porto) the second largest city in Portugal, now...
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Blair won’t ‘second guess’ UK government over Israel arms decision
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Lee Harpin
Former PM say: ‘I’m still involved with what’s going on in the Middle East right now.’
Sharansky appointed chair of Rabbi Sacks Legacy global advisory board
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Michelle Rosenberg
Kemi Badenoch questions Labour’s ‘legal agenda’ for Israel arms ban
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Michelle Rosenberg
Netanyahu slams UK government over ‘shameful’ arms sale decision
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Lee Harpin
OPINION: Israel is leading a global VC rebound despite the war
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Jon Medved
The country’s tech ecosystem is uniquely positioned to benefit from four current growth trends in the world venture economy, writes Jon Medved, the founder and CEO of OurCrowd how the startup nation was the fastest-growing venture economy in the world in the first half of this year
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Darren Richman
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Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour calls Roger Waters a ‘crank’
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Jewish News Reporter
Gilmour’s wife Polly Samson previously accused 81-year-old Pink Floyd songwriter of being “antisemitic to your rotten core”.
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Alex Galbinski
Honey I’m Losing It focuses on motherhood, social media and making the world a better place
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Israeli singer David Broza arrives in north London from the front line
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Jenni Frazer
Israel’s answer to Bruce Springsteen is a peace fighter but not a pacifist
NEWS
Iran summons UK charge d’affaires over government’s new sanctions announcement
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Lee Harpin
EXCLUSIVE: After UK government announces sanctions against three individuals in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force and against a unit, Tehran summoned the charge d’affaires
Starmer urged to reconvene cross-government group as united front in tackling Jew-hate
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Lee Harpin
Lord Mann’s newly published report to government alsos calls for significant support and funding for ‘joint Muslim and Jewish initiatives’ to counter rising hate
Cameron defends Holocaust memorial location as ‘unapologetic national statement’
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Jewish News Reporter
As legislation gets its second Lords reading Baroness Deech tables an amendment expressing regret at the location, cost, design and security concerns
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March of the Living marks 80 years since liquidation of Lodz ghetto
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Michelle Rosenberg
Prague names street after Czech Kindertransport hero Sir Nicholas Winton
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Michelle Rosenberg
Leading US Jewish organisation sparks controversy over Trump-Hitler comparison
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JN Reporter
Jewish Democratic Council of America (JDCA) releases Hate Doesn’t Stop Itself ad featuring images of Adolf Hitler alongside videos of Donald Trump speaking at political conferences.
Manchester march for Israel to mark a year after Hamas atrocities
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Michelle Rosenberg
Man carrying gun is shot dead near Munich’s Israeli consulate
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Lee Harpin
Family of British aid worker killed in Gaza call for independent inquiry
James Kirby, 47, from Bristol, was one of seven World Central Kitchen (WCK) workers fatally injured in the attack, including two other Britons.
Jewish Labour veteran Baroness Hodge is introduced to the House of Lords
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Lee Harpin
In the Commons Hendon MP David Pinto-Duschinsky recalls how how his father was smuggled out of the Munkács ghetto in maiden speech
NHS Trust advises members NOT to attend ‘inappropriate’ antisemitism training
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Michelle Rosenberg
Hundreds expected at London vigil for victims of Nova massacre
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Michelle Rosenberg
Cleverly accuses Lammy of damaging UK relationship with Israel and US
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Lee Harpin
Left-wing MPs, including Jeremy Corbyn, call for an ‘immediate and total arms embargo to Israel’
‘Mistreatment of detainees’ among reasons UK cites in Israeli arms suspension
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Jewish News Reporter
David Lammy confirms UK is suspending 30 arms export licences to Israel
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Lee Harpin
Mirvis says it ‘beggars belief’ Labour announced partial arms ban to Israel
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Lee Harpin
War cannot stop MDA dedication ceremony
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Michelle Rosenberg
Emotional tribute as Magen David Adom ambulance gifted in memory of paramedic murdered on October 7th
‘Our 23 years with you were a blessing’ – thousands at Hersh Goldberg-Polin funeral
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Jenni Frazer
The grief-stricken family of the 23-year-old Hamas hostage, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, were joined by thousands of mourners at his funeral at the Har Hamenuchot cemetery in Jerusalem on Monday. The American-Israeli Goldberg-Polin had been captured by Hamas terrorists at the Nova music festival on October 7 2023. He and...
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At the Jerusalem synagogue where Hersh danced in life, grief and anger reign after his death
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Deborah Danan (JTA)
Conference of European Rabbis launches initiative to support smaller Jewish communities
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Michelle Rosenberg
Starmer condemns ‘horrific and senseless’ killing of six hostages in Gaza
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Daniel Dangoor thanks a ‘truly remarkable team who have been a credit to their peers’ during an unprecedented wave of antisemitism across UK universities
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Change is happening and women are increasingly being empowered to teach and lead across the Orthodox world
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