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Archeologists at the site (Photo: Emil Eljam, Israel Antiquities Authority)
January 7, 2025, 3:19 pm
Experts find private mikveh from Second Temple period in Jerusalem dig
Archeologists say ritual bath was a luxury few Jews could afford during the Early Roman time
By Michelle Rosenberg
PM Keir Starmer addresses a packed Commons
July 17, 2024, 11:56 am
OPINION: We’ve come a long way in Westminster
Our current Parliament – with 13 Jewish MPs – is the least religious in history, writes Derek Taylor
By Derek Taylor
Stained glass window dedicated to Joseph Mordsley, Sinai synagogue.
May 3, 2024, 3:41 pm
Family’s race to save synagogue’s historic stained glass windows
Father and daughter Barry and Jessica Mordsley are urging Sinai synagogue management to reflect on importance of 60-year-old fixtures
By Michelle Rosenberg
Pic: National Library of Israel
November 7, 2023, 4:21 pm
National Library of Israel to digitally preserve 7th October massacre and war documentation
The initiative will include tens of thousands of texts, audio and video recordings of fallen victims and fighters, interviews with survivors and video recordings created by both the IDF and Hamas
By Michelle Rosenberg
Jews liberated from a train bound for Theresienstadt
August 10, 2023, 8:36 am
Imperial War Museum’s verdict on unearthed Holocaust footage from April 1945
EXCLUSIVE: The film, revealed last week by the National Archives in the United States, shows three cattle car trains, each with 2,500 survivors on board, bound for Theresienstadt.
By Daniel Pesin
The museum, when open, has tens of thousands of visitors a year. A total of 11,000 school students, mostly non-Jewish, are shown around the collection annually.
July 13, 2023, 10:41 am
SPECIAL REPORT: My family launched the Jewish Museum. Now it could be history
Jonathan Samuel, the grandson of one of the co-founders of the Jewish Museum, reflects on the role of the institution, what it means to the community and why it must be saved
By Jonathan Samuel
An Armon toilet seat taken from the House of Ahiel, excavated in the Old City of Jerusalem. Analysis of ancient faeces taken from this toilet and another reveals dysentery in Old Testament
May 26, 2023, 7:13 pm
Early toilets reveal dysentery in Old Testament Jerusalem
Examination of the latrines dating back to the biblical Kingdom of Judah uncovered traces of a common cause of debilitating diarrhoea in humans.
By Jewish News Reporter
Announcement of the Balfour Declaration
April 19, 2023, 7:42 pm
The British impact on the creation of Israel
So much and so many went into building the State of Israel
By David Matlow
The ivory comb found in Israel. Photo credit: Dafna Gazit, Israel Antiquities Authority.
November 9, 2022, 10:41 am
4,000-year-old Canaanite hair care advice discovered on lice comb in Israel
The comb's inscription, "May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard", is direct evidence for the use of the alphabet in daily activities back in 1,700 BC.
By Jotam Confino in Israel
Picture shows: Princess Diana (EMMA CORRIN) in The Crown.
October 28, 2022, 10:37 am
OPINION: American audiences likely to believe ‘a barrel load of nonsense’
Jewish News' historian Derek Taylor on why shows like Netflix's The Crown do a disservice to our valuable and enduring Royal Family.
By Derek Taylor
The school board in Zionsville, Indiana.
October 23, 2022, 10:26 am
‘Not all Nazis were bad,’ claims American school board candidate
Matt Keefer argued: “They were in a group frenzy. Who is to say if we were there in the same place and time, that we wouldn’t have done the same thing?"
By Philissa Cramer (JTA)
More than 8,000 shoes are stored at the site of the Nazi death camp
September 21, 2022, 10:00 pm
Urgent effort to preserve thousands of pairs of children’s shoes at Auschwitz
More than 8,000 are stored at the site of the Nazi death camp, but “without immediate conservation, they are in danger of disappearing as historic documentation of life and death”.
By Stephen Oryszczuk
Undated handout photo issued by Liverpool John Moores University of a reconstructed face of a male adult (left) and a child (right) based on skeletal remains. DNA from human remains found in a medieval well suggests they belonged to Ashkenazi Jews who fell victim to antisemitic violence during the 12th century. In 2004 archaeological excavations in central Norwich uncovered a medieval well containing the remains of at least 17 people, mostly children.
August 30, 2022, 4:30 pm
900-year-old Ashkenazi DNA ‘shines new light on British Jewish history’
Human remains found in a Norwich well of 17 people, mostly children, suggests they belonged to Ashkenazi Jews who fell victim to antisemitic violence during the 12th century.
By Jewish News Reporter
David surveys his unique collection.
May 27, 2022, 10:46 am
A history of Jewish life in Britain, one extraordinary artefact at a time
David Latchman began his incomparable collection charting the history of UK Jewry aged just 18, with a book bought for a pound.
By Jenni Frazer
May 17, 2022, 8:22 am
Who, What & Where: Claudia Winkleman, Sharon Osborne, Israeli chef popup, award-winning cafe, Jewish history
Our weekly roundup of the arts, entertainment and all things LIFE!
By Louisa Walters
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