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January 21, 2022, 9:33 am

Jewish News meets… Keith Black: ‘I’m a businessman – I enjoy improving how things work’

New chair of the Jewish Leadership Council Keith Black tells Lee Harpin about his sense of duty to communal life and why a Board of Deputies merger won’t happen

By Lee Harpin

Top row: Yaphet Koto, Rosita Rosenberg, Lady Lira Winston, Sheldon Adelson, Shimrit Perkol-Finkel.

Bottom row: Moshe Bergman, Leslie Kleinman, Jackie Mason, Lili Pohlmann, Isi Leibler

December 30, 2021, 3:33 pm

We will remember them: Those we lost in 2021

Holocaust survivors, entertainers and allies of our community were among those who passed away in the last 12 months

By Jewish News

Yorai Lahav-Hertzano of Yesh Atid: ‘The election is a battle on the core values of Israel’

March 18, 2021, 4:26 pm

Gay MK ‘worried, anxious and frightened’ election will give hate a foothold

Yesh Atid politician Yorai Lahav-Hertzano airs concern about the possibility of far-right and Kahanist politicians getting into office

By Nathan Jeffay

Anat Nehemia Lavee, Faten Alzinati, President Reuven Rivlin, Rabbi Zvi Shreiber and Harel Tubi

July 12, 2019, 12:11 pm

Walking in the shoes of Israel’s four tribes

A new initiative looks to build bridges between secular, religious, Charedi and Arab communities by getting them to 'swap places' for the day

By Stephen Oryszczuk

Israeli soldiers on the Syrian border provided food and medical aid for thousands of Syrians fleeing dictator President Bashar al-Assad as part of Israel’s Operation Good Neighbour project, which began in 2013

June 7, 2019, 2:43 pm

Operation Good Neighbour: ‘Syrians who fled in fear were happy to see Israel’

IDF veteran Eyal Dror tells Jewish News about Israel’s five-year scheme that’s saved the lives of thousands of Syrians

By Jewish News Reporter

Trevor Sage.
(Photo credit: Jitka Hejtman Studio)

April 17, 2019, 12:56 pm

Meet the British expat in Prague who cleans Shoah stones to preserve memories

Retired engineer Trevor Sage, came across the “stumbling stones” while on a tour of his adopted city. Here he recalls how he got involved in cleaning them

By Jewish News Reporter

Michael Wegier at a Jewish News reception in Israel last year

March 11, 2019, 2:35 pm

Wegier reflects on a weighty UJIA legacy

Outgoing chief executive of communal charity which supports British Jewish ties to Israel says he is proud and frustrated in equal measure as he departs his role

By Jenni Frazer

Barking mad: Canine protesters and their humans in London demand a ‘people’s vote’

December 13, 2018, 12:20 pm

Barking at Brexit! Meet the Jewish activist pushing for a Wooferendum

Daniel Elkan tells Beatrice Sayers how he gathered a band of like-minded dog lovers to campaign for a people's vote

By Beatrice Sayers

August 9, 2017, 10:31 am

The corruption scandals plaguing Benjamin Netanyahu and his family explained

The Netanyahus are embroiled in a political storm that may bring down the Israeli PM. Here, the confusion surrounding the saga is cleared up

By Ben Sales (JTA)

A Jewish family in Georgia (World Jewish Relief)

January 24, 2017, 12:45 pm

Meet the Sepiashvili family from Georgia

Concluding our series on Jewish communities around the world, we meet the Sepiashvili family from Georgia in the former Soviet Union

By World Jewish Relief

New Turkish envoy Eitan Na'eh (left) presenting his credentials to Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (right)

December 9, 2016, 9:57 am

New Turkish envoy on carrying Jerusalem’s hopes from London to Ankara

Eitan Na’eh speaks exclusively to Jewish News about the challenges of his new role in the Turkish capital

By Stephen Oryszczuk

Andrew Voelke with IDF chaplain putting on tefillin

November 14, 2016, 2:25 pm

How IDF orphans celebrate their bar and batmitzvahs

Coming of age is a rite of passage for every Jewish youngster, including the 3,000 young IDF orphans

By Lisa Sanders

A masked terrorist on top of the balcony during the Munich massacre of 1972

August 20, 2016, 5:11 pm

Munich massacre and Shoah survivor ‘happy’ attack was marked

Holocaust survivor and two-time Olympian Shaul Ladany, is 'very happy' the 1972 Munich massacre has been officially marked

By Jewish News Reporter and JTA

August 15, 2016, 5:23 pm

I’m the shiksa of Stamford Hill

Stamford Hill’s strictly-Orthodox Jewish community has become fiercely polarised along religious lines according to our anonymous writer who, until recently, lived in the area all her life.

Rescued Air France passengers wave to the waiting crowd while leaving the belly of the Hercules plane at Ben-Gurion Airport.

June 28, 2016, 11:07 am

40 years after Israel’s most daring mission

Jewish News speaks to former paratrooper Noam Tamir, one of the heroes of Israel’s audacious raid on Entebbe

By Jenni Frazer

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