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School children in a classroom. Photo credit: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

July 7, 2026, 1:22 pm

Religious education to join National Curriculum for the first time

Board of Deputies and PaJeS welcome plans for national RE standards while safeguarding the distinctive ethos of faith schools

By Annabel Sinclair

A fan holds a sign reading "YE IS NOT CRAZY" alongside a crossed-out Star of David as Kanye West performs at a concert in Tampa Bay

June 29, 2026, 4:08 pm

The moral operating system shaping our children should terrify us

A Kanye West concert exposed how inherited moral frameworks increasingly determine which hatred society chooses to condemn

By Leo Pearlman

Students, educators and Holocaust survivor Anne Super at the Anne Frank Trust UK National Youth Conference in Manchester. Credit: Anne Frank Trust UK

June 17, 2026, 5:23 pm

Unity isn’t taught on the football pitch, it’s taught in the classroom

New Anne Frank Trust data shows education can help young people challenge prejudice and build stronger communities

By Dan Green

June 10, 2026, 11:21 am

I’m a Jewish teacher. Stop asking me questions about my Muslim students

I have a problem with casual assumptions and lazy stereotypes from within our own community that we would never accept were they levelled at members of our own faith.

By Adam Boxer

A young Jewish boy sits on his fathers shoulders waving a British Union flag.

June 5, 2026, 5:02 pm

Will Britain miss its Jews once they have gone?

For generations, Britain seemed to offer Jews something rare in European history. Not perfection, certainly not acceptance without conditions, but stability. That is now fading.

By Gary Cohen

Pupils and staff from Menorah Foundation School celebrate after producing the highest-scoring individual team at Etgar 2026. Photo: Annabel Sinclair

June 3, 2026, 1:31 pm

North West and Menorah Foundation claim top honours at Etgar 2026

More than 1,000 pupils from 28 schools gathered at Wembley as the Jewish knowledge challenge marked 15 years and growing international reach

By Annabel Sinclair

Swastikas painted on a school sign in Newport, south Wales.

Photo credit: Crown Prosecution Service/PA Wire

June 2, 2026, 10:38 am

Hate in schools has risen meteorically. What lessons are our children learning?

Children are not simply our future, they are our reflection. They absorb the values we model, the language we use, the behaviour we tolerate and the examples we set.

By Leo Pearlman

Children at the Academies of Hope campus in Gaza. Photo Credit: Gaza Children Village website.

May 5, 2026, 12:41 pm

Gaza school founder backed by Israeli donors says children are taught ‘we are better together’

Palestinian-American surgeon behind Gaza’s Academies of Hope tells Jewish News why Jewish support shaped his vision

By Annabel Sinclair

April 1, 2026, 10:41 am

One in six secondary schools marked Holocaust Memorial Day this year, new figures show

HMDT announce 2027 theme as school participation begins to recover

By Lee Harpin

March 4, 2026, 1:56 pm

OPINION: Why I am serious about ending the silence on antisemitism in British schools

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson writes for Jewish News after confirming independent review into response to anti-Jewish hate in our schools

By Bridget Phillipson

January 28, 2026, 4:54 pm

UNESCO survey: antisemitism reported in three quarters of EU classrooms

Teachers across Europe warn of widespread antisemitism, Holocaust denial and lack of training

By Annabel Sinclair

Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial and museum, Poland.

January 19, 2026, 1:25 pm

A decline in Holocaust commemoration shows exactly why such remembrance is necessary

For some, the Holocaust has become uncomfortable because it no longer fits the story they wish to tell about Jews

By Rabbi Benjy Morgan

The HMD 2025 of AJR in London Belsize Sqaure Synagugue on 20 1 2025. Photos taken by Adam Soller Photography©

January 19, 2026, 12:50 pm

Sharp decline in Holocaust Memorial Day participation among schools after Hamas attacks

HMD is 'an act of human memory' said Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis

By JN Reporter

The Reverend Canon Michael Smith, Acting Dean of York, helps light six hundred candles in the shape of the Star of David, in memory of more than 6 million Jewish people murdered by the Nazis in the Second World War, in the Chapter House at York Minster in York, part of York Minster's commemoration for International Holocaust Day.

January 18, 2026, 6:52 pm

Schools are falling silent on Holocaust Memorial Day – that should shame us all

As teachers retreat from remembrance out of fear of backlash, Britain is learning a dangerous lesson: moral clarity can be negotiated

By Dov Forman

Harif's Creative Director, Michelle Huberman

December 15, 2025, 11:06 am

PaJeS National Conference advances diversity and inclusion in Jewish Schools

Delegates hear about the rich diversity of Jewish heritage, from Jamaica and Iraq to India and the Caribbean

By Michelle Rosenberg

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