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Captain Smit Machchhar, who helped save 174 people aboard a flight to Israel. Photo Credit: Embassy of India in Israel
October 9, 2026, 11:28 am
Shabbat Shalom: To those who carry our grief and refuse to surrender our joy
This week’s Shabbat Shalom is dedicated to those who refuse to let anybody else decide where it ends
By Leo Pearlman
Kemi Badenoch takes part in Q&A at Birmingham conference
October 6, 2026, 4:59 pm
Badenoch: ‘I’m pro-Israel and pro-British Jews but unclear what being proud Zionist means’
Interviewed by Robert Peston for ITV, Badenoch said: 'I'm appalled by what the Green Party did at their conference.'
By Lee Harpin
Abraham Orkin Freedman's photograph of the Western Wall from 1921 showed men and women praying together at the Jewish holy site. (Courtesy Tower of David Jerusalem Museum)
October 6, 2026, 1:26 pm
The intrinsic connection of Judaism to Zionism
Those who seek to characterise Zionism as only political and differentiate it from Judaism and Jews are at best woefully uneducated or at worst dangerously disingenuous
By Raphi Bloom
Andy Burnham
September 10, 2026, 2:43 pm
‘Archaic’ ban on Catholics and Jews advising on Church roles to be scrapped
The ban dates back to 19th century laws which at the time removed bars from Jewish and Catholic people holding public office
By JN Reporter
Headstone with a Star of David at a cemetery (Thinkstock)
September 7, 2026, 12:09 pm
A serious country does not build Holocaust remembrance on comfort, but on truth
Ed Balls and Lord Pickles, co-chairs of the Holocaust Memorial Foundation, describe one of the key objectives of the planned Memorial and Learning Centre
By Ed Balls and Lord Pickles
Boy George (Flickr/Paul Carless)
July 31, 2026, 3:55 pm
Shabbat Shalom: To Those Who Offer Hope
Hope has sustained the Jewish people for so long, not because our history has been easy, but because we refused to surrender it.
By Leo Pearlman
July 20, 2026: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani delivers video calling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a "war criminal" but admits the city does not have the legal authority to arrest him. (NYC Mayor's Office)
July 24, 2026, 10:49 am
Zohran Mamdani’s Tisha B’Av contradiction
A fast day commemorating Jewish exile is an awkward thing to celebrate if you cannot admit where Jews were exiled from
By Leo Pearlman
Theodotus Inscription, City of David, 1st century CE, indicating the existence of a synagogue at that site previous to 70 CE (Creative Commons: Andrey Zeigarnik)
July 1, 2026, 11:21 am
Why Israel must stop introducing itself through victimhood
Israel is not merely a refuge born from a European catastrophe. It is the homeland of an ancient people whose history, language and civilisation are rooted in that story
By Shimon Cohen
David Davidi-Brown at 2024's Human Rights Awards (credit: Yoav Pichersky)
July 1, 2026, 10:30 am
Five years at New Israel Fund have taught me that empathy cannot be rationed
It is possible – indeed essential – to hold deep commitment to Israelis alongside urgent compassion for Palestinians
By David Davidi-Brown
Commandos from the elite Sayeret Matkal unit with the Mercedes they used during Operation Entebbe (Photo: IDF Spokesperson)
June 30, 2026, 4:09 pm
Half a century on from Entebbe, the world has forgotten why Israel is vital for Jews
Too often the world says Israel brings danger on to Jews. But to believe that, you have to believe that Israel created the danger. The truth is that danger to Jews created Israel
By Clive Lewis
Members of the Citizens of the World Choir, ahead of the Universe concert at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue on 9 July. Credit: Citizens of the World Choir
June 25, 2026, 11:18 am
Israeli and Palestinian musicians to unite at London concert promoting hope and dialogue
Producer Andrew Leslau says years of trying to bring Jews and Muslims together inspired the Liberal Jewish Synagogue event
By Annabel Sinclair
The Richard Wagner Festspielhaus IN Bayreuth (Creative Commons/Rico Neitzel )
June 18, 2026, 12:31 pm
Bayreuth festival cancels lecture on Wagner’s antisemitism over ‘security concerns’
Jewish author and broadcaster Michel Friedman, who was due to speak, said: "cancelling events for security reasons is suicide in a democracy”
By JN Reporter
Participants on stage at The Paris Call for the Two State Solution conference this past weekend (Twitter: @FranceDiplo_ENG)
June 16, 2026, 12:37 pm
Why a shared society organisation belongs at the peace table
One of the striking features of the Paris gathering was how few organisations working specifically on shared society were represented. Yet these efforts need one another
By Amnon Be'eri-Sulitzeanu
Green Party leader Zack Polanski.
June 15, 2026, 11:31 am
The curse of the useful idiot
How a generation learned to mistake belonging for truth and why the price will be paid by everyone else
By Leo Pearlman
June 12, 2026, 4:24 pm
How hate and misinformation travels
From 'All Eyes on Rafah' to riots on British streets, amplification has become a substitute for understanding
By Leo Pearlman
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