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Incoming UJS president Raphi Leon (right) speaks during a discussion at the Union of Jewish Students' State of the Union event in London. Photo Credit: UJS
June 26, 2026, 3:56 pm
New UJS president Raphi Leon: ‘Jewish students must take our story into the wider world’
Incoming Union of Jewish Students president says his focus will be helping students live proudly Jewish lives while strengthening relationships beyond the community
By Annabel Sinclair
Researchers at Hebrew University’s Faculty of Medicine. Photo: Yosef Adest / Hebrew University of Jerusalem
March 27, 2026, 4:14 pm
£1.5m scholarship fund to back next generation of Israeli scientists
UK supporters launch major Hebrew University fund to finance 200+ postgraduate researchers tackling global scientific challenges
By Annabel Sinclair
Students gather on the lawn at Hebrew University’s Mount Scopus campus, where daily life has begun to settle into a steadier rhythm following two difficult years. Photo: Yonit Schiller / Hebrew University
December 10, 2025, 10:23 am
Two years after 7 October, The Hebrew University learns to live – and think – through trauma
As Israel exhales after the October ceasefire, campus life slowly begins to return
By Annabel Sinclair
June 16, 2025, 12:08 pm
OPINION: University free speech bill is much improved but problems remain 
Revised campus free speech law offers progress but lacks teeth on antisemitism, argues Gavriel Sacks
By Gavriel Sacks
Graffitti on Hillel House Leeds University
May 21, 2024, 10:20 pm
New laws ‘could allow Holocaust denialism to spread at UK universities’
Lord Mann labels an Office for Students consultation on the government's academic freedom laws as 'not fit for purpose', warning that pro-Hamas posters could remain on campus notice boards
By Lee Harpin
A university lecture
February 19, 2021, 10:41 am
OPINION: New reality for higher education brings challenges for Jewish academics
The pandemic has brought a new reality for university education. Ephraim Borowski, David Katz and Susan Pascoe reflect on what is needed to help educators adapt
By Ephraim Borowski, David Katz and Susan Pascoe
Students celebrating graduation
April 13, 2017, 10:29 am
Exclusive: Thirty-two percent fall in Israelis studying in Britain
New figures show dramatic decline in the number of undergraduates studying in the UK from the Jewish state
By Justin Cohen
NUS president Malia Bouattia
April 3, 2017, 3:16 pm
Student report reveals 45 percent of Jews not confident discussing Israel
Landmark study shows nearly half of Jewish students uncomfortable discussing Israel, but not worrying about hate crime
By Jewish News Reporter
Michael Gove
July 20, 2016, 9:17 am
Gove: NUS is ‘chilling environment’ for Jewish students
The former education secretary criticised the National Union of Students as being a 'cold home' for Jewish students
By Jewish News Reporter
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