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July 1, 2026, 11:45 am

First female Clerk of the House of Commons is former South London Liberal Shul chair

Eve Samson was announced this week as the latest person to hold the prestigious constitutional role, which has existed for centuries

By JN Reporter

Protesters against the Assisted Dying BIll mourn in a mock graveyard to highlight the bill’s dangers. Photograph: Vuk Valcic/Alamy Live News

March 3, 2026, 12:50 pm

Why I am pleased the Assisted Dying Bill will fail

Autonomy must have its limits. Personal freedom should not come at any cost

By Rabbi Shulamit Ambalu

Ed Horwich with Andrew Snowden MP© Photo by Yakir Zur

November 7, 2025, 2:12 pm

Jewish Small Communities Network celebrated in Parliament

MP Andrew Snowden welcomes delegates of the organisation to Parliamentary lunch

By Michelle Rosenberg

Former Oxfam GB CEO Halima Begum and MP Brendan O’Hara. Photo Credit: Abubaker Abed via X/@AbubakerAbedW

July 17, 2025, 4:46 pm

Oxfam GB holds panel event with Gazan who cheered Hamas massacre

Abubaker Abed told MPs and journalists “we will resist” at Westminster after previously invoking Al-Qassam Brigades online

By Annabel Sinclair

James Cleverley with Laura Marks, Phil Rosenberg and Guy Dabby-Joory Pic: Keith Gold

November 15, 2024, 12:49 pm

MPs and peers launch Mitzvah Day project in Parliament

Cross-party MPs including James Cleverly, Chi Onwurah and Liz Jarvis support social action day in House of Commons with cans of soup for north London food bank

By Michelle Rosenberg

October 5, 2024, 11:05 am

House of Commons debate to mark anniversary of 7 October Hamas massacre

Jon Pearce, new parliamentary chair of Labour Friends of Israel, secures Westminster debate on Monday

By Lee Harpin

Protesters at the Royal Courts of Justice ahead of a hearing in February 2022 about the UK Holocaust Memorial

April 26, 2024, 9:08 am

MPs issue warning on Holocaust memorial project’s rising costs and security

Surprise at lack of consultation on choice of Westminster site where round-the-clock protection is likely to be required – at an unknown price, says select committee

By Beatrice Sayers

Anita Lasker-Wallfisch and Dr Martin Stern give evidence on Wednesday in the House of Commons

January 24, 2024, 11:31 pm

‘This is idiotic’: Holocaust survivors give evidence about proposed memorial

At a meeting of MPs on the Holocaust Memorial Bill select committee four survivors opposed to the project air their concerns alongside those of Baroness Deech and historian Sir Richard Evans

By Beatrice Sayers

The proposed memorial and an aerial view of Victoria Tower Gardens, Westminster

January 24, 2024, 8:34 pm

VOICE OF THE JEWISH NEWS: Holocaust memorial is 10 years on the drawing board

MPs must heed the valid concerns of architects, a terrorism expert, the group Save Victoria Tower Gardens and four Shoah survivors, the eldest of them 98-year-old Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who have voiced their objections to current proposals for a memorial and learning centre

By Voice of the Jewish News

Nickie Aiken MP and Sir Peter Bottomley give evidence on Wednesday

January 19, 2024, 10:38 am

Holocaust Memorial Bill: objector compares strategy to Post Office stance on Horizon

Commons select committee hears evidence from opponents of government-backed legislation to clear restriction on building on Victoria Tower Gardens

By Beatrice Sayers

Sandys Row Synagogue (Credit: Deror avi)

January 10, 2024, 3:13 pm

Opinion: Why does Jewish history not count?

The contributions of the Jewish community to life in this country should be viewed from an historical context, not through the prism of the Israel-Hamas conflict, writes Colin Shindler

By Colin Shindler

December 15, 2023, 11:53 am

MPs criticise advertising company after hostage awareness campaign dropped

London Lites pulled digital billboards six days into planned two-week campaign citing concerns for 'community safety'

By Jewish News Reporter

2M4R51J Tehran, Tehran, Iran. 20th Dec, 2022. commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Major General HOSSEIN SALAMI (2L) and Commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' (IRGC) Quds Force, ESMAIL QAANI (2R) attend in a ceremony for commemorating death anniversary of an IRGC's Quds force commander in Tehran, December 20, 2022. (Credit Image: © Rouzbeh Fouladi via ZUMA Press Wire)

May 24, 2023, 9:02 am

Government tackled on failure to ban IRGC four months after Commons vote

Peers in Westminster have now called on the Government again to take action against the military body, which has been proscribed by allies such as the US.

By Abbie Llewelyn (PA)

February 6, 2023, 1:26 pm

OPINION: What was not said during Daniel’s appointment was significant

As a Charedi Jew becomes Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, how lucky we are that he is judged on merit, writes Vivian Wineman.

By Vivian Wineman

MPs observe a minute of silence in the House of Commons.

December 21, 2022, 5:17 pm

OPINION: A silent tribute – then action to stop hatred

Deeds, not words: the minute's silence for Holocaust victims in the House of Commons must lead to action against all atrocities, writes Laura Marks and Dame Margaret Hodge

By Dame Margaret Hodge and Laura Marks

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