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Pupils and staff from Menorah Foundation School celebrate after producing the highest-scoring individual team at Etgar 2026. Photo: Annabel Sinclair
June 3, 2026, 1:31 pm
North West and Menorah Foundation claim top honours at Etgar 2026
More than 1,000 pupils from 28 schools gathered at Wembley as the Jewish knowledge challenge marked 15 years and growing international reach
By Annabel Sinclair
Activists detained after attempting to breach Israel’s Gaza blockade kneel at Ashdod port in footage shared online by Itamar Ben-Gvir.
May 21, 2026, 4:27 pm
Chief Rabbi condemns Ben-Gvir video
Foreign Office demanded explanation from Israel over detention conditions shown in footage condemned by Chief Rabbi Mirvis
By JN Reporter
Crowds gather at Victoria Tower Gardens outside Parliament for the UK’s national Yom HaShoah commemoration ceremony. Credit: Amanda Rose/@amandarosephoto
April 14, 2026, 12:00 pm
‘Nazism does not pay’: warning at UK Yom HaShoah commemoration
Survivors, ministers and youth mark ceremony outside Parliament, linking Holocaust memory to rising hatred in Britain
By Annabel Sinclair
Rabbi Moshe Chaim
March 18, 2026, 12:28 pm
Barnet Shul inducts Rabbi Moshe and Rebbetzin Miri Lister
Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis hails 'marriage made in heaven of rabbinic couple and a very special community'
By Michelle Rosenberg
Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell Credit: Ravage Productions
November 18, 2025, 5:05 pm
Archbishop of York accuses Israel of committing ‘genocidal acts’ in Gaza
Stephen Cottrell tells Church Times 'It’s not about Jewish people... It’s about the state’s actions', as the Chief Rabbi condemns the senior Anglican
By Jewish News Reporter
Franck Magennis
July 24, 2025, 12:55 pm
Barrister in Hamas delisting case faces second complaint over antisemitic posts
Franck Magennis accused of misconduct for branding Zionists ‘pariahs’ and urging ‘escalation’ despite Palestine Action ban
By Annabel Sinclair
Chief Rabbi Mirvis with the Wolfson Hillel squad: Noah Beckwith, Callum Livingston, Asher Kramer, Max Reynolds (Captain), Jonathan Benjamin, Daniel Ward, Eli Aarami, Robert Fitch, Cooper Glass, Leo Abrahams
July 18, 2025, 5:07 pm
Chief Rabbi joins Wolfson Hillel to celebrate ‘historic’ doubles football success
Successful squad celebrates 'phenomenal' achievement at an awards ceremony also attended by the Mayor of Enfield
By Daniel Sugarman
Sir Sajid Javid, Laura Marks CBE and Olivia Marks-Woldman OBE at the HMDT reception in Parliament. Photo Credit: Sam Churchill
July 8, 2025, 1:44 pm
Sajid Javid begins tenure as new Chair of Holocaust Memorial Day Trust
Twelve survivors attend House of Commons handover, as former Home Secretary vows to challenge hate
By Annabel Sinclair
Independent Jewish Day School (IJDS) pupils celebrate winning the top prize for highest-scoring team at Etgar 2025, the national Jewish primary school quiz challenge. Photo: IJDS.
June 24, 2025, 7:48 pm
Quiz masters: Independent and North West London Jewish Day Schools win top prizes at Etgar 2025
More than 1,000 pupils from 28 Jewish primary schools across the UK took part in the country’s biggest Jewish primary school quiz, held at Wembley Stadium
By Annabel Sinclair
Candles lit in memory of murdered Israeli embassy staff Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgram outside the Israeli Embassy in London. Photo Credit: Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA)
May 23, 2025, 1:05 pm
Hundreds gather in London to mourn Israeli diplomats killed in Washington DC
Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgram, due to get engaged next week, were shot outside a Jewish museum by a man shouting, “Free Palestine”
By Annabel Sinclair
Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis and Rabbi Alexander Goldberg, November 3rd 2024
November 4, 2024, 3:41 pm
First new rabbi in 750 years for Guildford Jewish community
Rabbi Alex Goldberg inaugurated at historic ceremony officiated by Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis
By Michelle Rosenberg
Dubai Miracle Garden
September 30, 2024, 2:01 pm
The UAE offers a warm welcome in a warm (and cold!) climate
Skiing, penguins, the Louvre and a synagogue - the options are endless in Dubai and Abu Dhabi
By Louisa Walters
A person stands in front of an Israeli police water cannon being used to disperse demonstrators blocking a road during a protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system, in Jerusalem, Monday, July 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
July 27, 2023, 11:34 am
Chief Rabbi: ‘Israel hasn’t learnt the lessons of horrific tragedy of Tisha B’Av’
Ephraim Mirvis pointed to deep divisions in Israel over the country's democratic character which have threatened with throwing the country into a civil war.
By Jewish News Reporter
Anglican Archbishop Hosam Naoum inspects vandalized graves on mount Zion outside the old city on January 4, 2023 in Jerusalem, Israel. Security camera video recorded on January 1st. shows two apparently young religious Jews, destroying over 30 graves at the Protestant cemetery of Mount Zion. Christian leaders in Israel have been sounding the alarm about an escalation of radical Jewish groups, that are trying to drive Christians out of Jerusalem. Credit: Eddie Gerald/Alamy Live News
January 9, 2023, 11:10 am
Two Israeli teens arrested after vandalising Christian cemetery
Israel's Foreign Ministry called the desecration of tombstones at the Protestant Mount Zion Cemetery in Jerusalem “an affront to religion.”
By Jotam Confino in Israel
Anglican Archbishop Hosam Naoum inspects vandalized graves on mount Zion outside the old city on January 4, 2023 in Jerusalem, Israel. Security camera video recorded on January 1st. shows two apparently young religious Jews, destroying over 30 graves at the Protestant cemetery of Mount Zion. Christian leaders in Israel have been sounding the alarm about an escalation of radical Jewish groups, that are trying to drive Christians out of Jerusalem. Credit: Eddie Gerald/Alamy Live News
January 4, 2023, 11:04 am
Chief Rabbi’s horror at ‘shameful’ vandalism of Christian cemetery
Two individuals, one of whom was visibly Jewish, filmed desecrating tombstones at the Protestant Mount Zion Cemetery in Jerusalem
By Jotam Confino in Israel
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