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Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv on December 31, 2022. (Photo credit: Jakub Porzycki/Getty Images)

October 1, 2026, 1:12 pm

Stop asking me when I’m making aliyah

Jews leaving Britain out of fear are hollowing out the communities Israel will need most as the sanctions arrive

By Leah Stern

A Green Party councillor chants 'From The River To The Sea' at a Tower Hamlets protest

September 24, 2026, 2:27 pm

The attempt to define Zionism as racism is an attack on the Jewish people

Every people on earth is entitled to self-determination. The motion carves out one exception, and it is the Jews.

By Max Royston

September 24, 2026, 9:20 am

If Progressive Judaism is edited out, the wider community will struggle

The article attacking us was an attempt to suggest that one form of Judaism is the only valid form and to photoshop everyone else out

By Rabbi Josh Levy

Members of the Jewish community comfort each other near to the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Crumpsall, Manchester, 2025

September 23, 2026, 10:45 am

Yom Kippur in Heaton Park Synagogue, 2026

Exactly one year earlier, there had been death, destruction, injury, trauma and fear right here, simply because Jews had come together on the holiest day of our year

By Raphi Bloom

Pro-Israel and pro-Palestine protests in London reflect rising tensions between communities since 7 October

September 22, 2026, 1:06 pm

The moderate majority: Most Brits refuse to take sides over Gaza war

Major poll of 2,000 adults finds 62 percent do not clearly support either camp, while just 43 percent believe Britain is now safe for Jewish people

By Annabel Sinclair

September 22, 2026, 12:15 pm

Anti-Zionist Jews will always ultimately fail the purity tests their allies set them

Zack Polanski and the “suicidal naivety” that one more denunciation will finally be enough

By Leo Pearlman

Floral tributes laid outside Heaton Park Synagogue in memory of the victims of the Yom Kippur attack.

September 20, 2026, 9:55 am

British Jewish life has irrevocably changed

How long can British Jews endure this chipping away of their sense of security? Their dignity?

By Sabrina Miller

September 17, 2026, 10:44 am

To our government: we warned you what these sanctions could mean. You didn’t listen

While we urged the government to wait until the Israeli elections on 27 October, it has proven far more interested in 27 September: the start of the Labour Party Conference

By Phil Rosenberg

September 16, 2026, 10:27 am

Jewish communal groups must work with the government now more than ever

Many British Jews may fundamentally disagree with the stance Andy Burnham has taken on Israel - but the answer to that should be stronger engagement, not abandoning the floor

By Raphi Bloom

Climate change. (Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash) Via Jewish News

September 15, 2026, 1:54 pm

Jewish people can use our professional lives to tackle the climate crisis

Throughout our history, Jewish values have demanded action on the defining ethical issues of the day

By Rafi Addlestone

Chief Rabbi Mirvis (Picture - FCDO)
Ed Miliband (Picture - UK Government, Shaun Curry)

September 11, 2026, 10:30 am

British Jews disagree. We should stop pretending otherwise

In the broadest and most basic of binaries, are we with the foreign secretary or Chief Rabbi? Or neither?

By Daniel Sugarman

People attend a "face down" antisemitism rally in Whitehall, central London, following a series of arson attacks and two people being stabbed in Golders Green, north-west London on April 29. Picture date: Sunday May 10, 2026. Pic Lucy North PA

September 11, 2026, 9:12 am

Five things we learned about Jewish life in 5786

As another turbulent Jewish year comes to a close, JPR’s research reveals a community considerably more complicated and resilient than the headlines sometimes suggest

By Dr Jonathan Boyd

September 11, 2026, 8:44 am

What the year ahead will bring – and what we should hope for

In 2024 we could see the direction of travel, but in 2026, I fear we are beginning to see the destination

By Leo Pearlman

September 11, 2026, 7:03 am

Israel and the UK are natural allies. A strong partnership is in both our interests

Prior to Rosh Hashana, Israel's deputy ambassador and chargé d’affaires writes about the difficult year that has just passed and hopes for the year ahead

By Christian Cantor

September 8, 2026, 10:41 am

The courage of Maureen Lipman

By insisting upon conversation, she has exposed the weakness of a politics that is far more comfortable with boycott than with argument

By Rabbi Andrea Zanardo

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