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Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer and deputy leader Angela Rayner at the Labour Party conference in Brighton. Picture date: Saturday September 25, 2021.

September 13, 2024, 10:35 am

Board and Lord Mann pledge to work with government to improve Jewish-Muslim relations

In meetings and reports to ministers, the Board and Lord Mann have backed calls for more inter-faith work

By Lee Harpin

August 8, 2024, 12:43 pm

Chief Rabbi condemns fake BBC video of him calling for mosque closures

Widely circulated TikTok features fake footage of him stating, 'only Muslims get everything they want'

By Michelle Rosenberg

August 8, 2024, 10:45 am

OPINION: We can trace the lineage of this far-right violence

'As a society, we have to be better than this', writes Phil Rosenberg on the lawless riots against minority groups across the UK

By Phil Rosenberg

O’Brien claims in his response that he alluded to the clip while watching it live in the studio, adding: “Obviously, the reference to 'Zionist backers' is obnoxious and antisemitic. My apologies”.

August 6, 2024, 5:50 pm

LBC presenter apologises over ‘obnoxious and antisemitic’ Muslim/Robinson video

James O'Brien sorry for liking clip in which Muslim activist says far-right has 'Zionist backers'

By Jenni Frazer

April 12, 2023, 12:54 pm

REVIEW: David Baddiel’s affectionate two fingers up to faith

It would be a sea-splitting miracle if The God Desire has the cultural impact of the author's previous seminal work, writes Richard Ferrer. This time the iconoclast bites off more than he can Jew.

By Richard Ferrer

David Adjaye and Ashley Shaw-Scott arrive for the Time 100 Gala in the Manhattan borough of New York, New York, U.S. April 25, 2017. Picture taken April 25, 2017. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

February 17, 2023, 1:33 pm

The British architect behind UAE’s historic Abrahamic Family House

David Adjaye is also the inspiration behind the planned Holocaust memorial and learning centre in Westminster

By JN Reporter

November 29, 2022, 9:58 am

New census results reveal number of Jews in England and Wales

Figures for the 2021 census show slight increase - from 265,00 in 2011 to 271,000 in 2021 - but overall statistics show 22 million people in England and Wales ticked 'no religion'

By Lee Harpin

The CST said government and police increasingly accept the argument that antisemitism should be included in Prevent.

(Photo credit: Danny Lawson/PA Wire)

October 6, 2022, 2:42 pm

Hate crime offences against Jews in England and Wales rise by 49 % over past year

New Home Office statistics confirm that Jews and Muslims are the main target of rising religiously motivated hate crime between March 2021-22 with 23 per cent of all offences involving antisemitism

By Lee Harpin

July 7, 2022, 11:52 pm

OPINION: A significant step towards friendlier Jewish-Muslim dialogue

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis on how he teamed up with one of the Islamic world's leading scholars to forge constructive dialogue between the religions.

By Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis

Nazi memorabilia in the bedroom of a teenager who made a pipe bomb, in a separate case

(Photo credit: North East CTU/PA Wire)

December 15, 2021, 11:39 am

Teenagers ‘groomed into neo-Nazi groups by activists their own age’, report warns

New Kings College London/CST report suggests the idea of young people being lured into far-right groups by older leaders is now largely a myth

By Lee Harpin

April 20, 2021, 2:02 pm

Deputy banned for ‘vile Muslims’ tweet in group backing challenger to lead Board

Leaked emails show Roslyn Pine is part of a group supporting Jonathan Neumann for Board president, despite being banned by the Board for Islamaphobia and calling Arabs “so evil”.

By Lee Harpin

Pictures from Sharaka Delegation visit to Yad Vashem, December 13, 2020:

January 25, 2021, 5:44 pm

‘Never again’ in Hebrew and Arabic as Gulf states mark Holocaust Memorial Day

In wake of Abraham Accords, Auschwitz survivor Vera Kriegel gave testimony to young people from the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, and Saudi Arabia, who recently visited Yad Vashem

By Stephen Oryszczuk

Survivors of the Holocaust and recent genocides, including Safet (third from the left) with Olivia Marks-Woldman, HMDT Chief Executive, and Laura Marks, HMDT Chair.

Credit: Holocaust Memorial Day Trust.

July 10, 2020, 8:52 am

‘White armbands and yellow stars show similarities of genocide’

Ahead of the 25-year anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, survivor Safet Vukalić shares his harrowing first-hand testimony

By Stephen Oryszczuk

Egypt-born Dr Hussein ‘Joe’ Youssef and former teacher Eileen, aged 90, with their chicken soup food packages under lockdown

June 4, 2020, 3:43 pm

Soup-er gran prescribes Jewish penicillin to hundreds!

Yochy Davis has been dishing out portions of golden goodness to around 140 homes across London and Essex each week, supporting the elderly and vulnerable during the pandemic

By Sandy Rashty

Rabbi David Rosen (fourth from the left) with other faith leaders at the KAICIID event (@KAICIID on Twitter)

February 28, 2020, 2:25 pm

Saudi King hosts top British rabbi at landmark interfaith summit

Rabbi David Rosen heralds the 'truly revolutionary moment' as faith leaders from around the world gather in Riyadh for historic conference

By Jenni Frazer

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