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Teachers union halts appointment of Corbyn ally as general secretary

Jewish teachers welcome news that NASUWT teaching union has reopened nominations for the leaders role ahead of High Court challenge to unopposed election of Matt Wrack

EXCLUSIVE: Football executive fired after THREE DAYS for social media posts supporting Hamas

By Michelle Rosenberg

Metropolitan Police officers on patrol in London. A force member has been dismissed over antisemitic posts shared after 7 October. File image.

London hate crimes officer dismissed over antisemitic Instagram posts after 7 October

By Annabel Sinclair

The Pope during a visit to the Western Wall in 2014. He left a note inside an envelope in one of the cracks between the stones

Jewish leaders pay tribute after death of the Pope, aged 88

By Jewish News Reporter

Jewish Care wins prestigious Legacy Team of the Year at Smee & Ford Legacy Giving Awards 2025

April 27, 2025, 9:15 pm

Jewish Care named top UK legacy fundraising team at national awards

Magen David Adom's Howard Taylor was named legacy volunteer of the year at the same ceremony

By Annabel Sinclair

April 27, 2025, 7:36 pm

Teachers union halts appointment of Corbyn ally as general secretary

Jewish teachers welcome news that NASUWT teaching union has reopened nominations for the leaders role ahead of High Court challenge to unopposed election of Matt Wrack

By Lee Harpin

Pictured: Minister for Veterans and People, Alistair Carns OBE MC MP in front of the screens at Piccadilly Circus. The screen image features Henny Franks

April 27, 2025, 12:18 pm

101-year-old Holocaust survivor stars in national VE Day campaign

Henny Franks hailed as part of the 'Greatest Generation' in iconic Piccadilly Circus showcase

By Michelle Rosenberg

Former hostages Adi Shoham and her children Yahel and Naveh meeting the Pope last November. Their father ad husband Tal was later released pic: Vatican Media

April 26, 2025, 1:24 pm

Hostage families: We will always cherish the Pope’s moral support

Tribute came as world leaders and well-wishers from around the globe attended the funeral for Pope Francis in Vatican Square

Yoel Levy, who ran the Jerusalem Marathon in tribute to the Bibas family, will now take on London’s race.

April 25, 2025, 1:26 pm

Jewish Batman runner to honour Bibas family at London Marathon

Fitness influencer Yoel Levy will run dressed as Batman again, this time through London’s streets for Israel

By Charlotte Henry

Gideon Moshe Sa'ar, Israel's Foreign Minister, left with Phil Rosenberg, President, Board of Deputies of British Jews, right.

April 24, 2025, 5:59 pm

Forty prominent Israelis express their ‘immense gratitude’ to deputies who signed FT letter

EXCLUSIVE: Ex-IDF commanders, MKs, former ambassadors and academic say the 36 Board members facing disciplinary action have shown 'support in the battle we are fighting for the future and soul of Israel'

By Lee Harpin

April 24, 2025, 4:24 pm

Jonathan Dimbleby claims communal leaders making antisemitism worse by failing to criticise Israel

EXCLUSIVE: Ex-BBC presenter says in podcast interview that 'one of the consequences of not being critical of the government of Israel today is that it exacerbates that antisemitism, which is so horrific'

By Lee Harpin

Gravestones delivered to the cemetery next to the embrace wall of the memorial. Pic: The Together Plan

April 24, 2025, 12:51 pm

1,250 Jewish gravestones in Belarus returned to their original sites after 80 years

'Historic justice' as final steps taken to honour the devastated Jewish community of Brest-Litovsk

By Michelle Rosenberg

Pope Francis meets Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, who was among the first to pay tribute to the pontiff

April 24, 2025, 12:22 pm

Israel deletes message on social media offering condolences after Pope’s death

Israeli diplomatic missions worldwide are also instructed to delete similar posts

By JN Reporter

April 24, 2025, 11:46 am

EXCLUSIVE: Teaching union faces legal challenge over uncontested election of veteran left-winger Wrack

Jewish News understands Jewish members of the NASUWT trade union are supportive of the move to block Matt Wrack becoming general secretary

By Lee Harpin

April 24, 2025, 11:28 am

Chief executive of ORT UK to step down

Dan Rickman joined the mentoring charity in 2019

By Michelle Rosenberg

Gideon Sa'ar, right, meets David Lammy in Jerusalem on Jan. 12, 2024. (Photo by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Israel)

April 23, 2025, 6:10 pm

UK-backed Gaza humanitarian aid statement sparks row with Israel

Israel's foreign ministry says statement from E3 nations Germany, UK and France is 'morally twisted and wrong'

By Lee Harpin

Eve Kugler. Pic: Sam Churchill Photography

April 23, 2025, 3:13 pm

‘She lit up every room’: Holocaust survivor Eve Kugler dies, aged 94

Seven years old in 1938 when Kristallnacht took place, her family was torn apart by the Nazis but was reunited in 1946

By Michelle Rosenberg

April 23, 2025, 2:12 pm

Jewish Women’s Aid calls for greater community engagement as abuse figures rise

A quarter of charity's clients have suffered both domestic abuse AND sexual violence with increasing referrals from medics and frontline workers

By Michelle Rosenberg

Transactivists in Hastings, East Sussex. Photograph: Paul Lawrenson /Alamy Live News

April 23, 2025, 1:56 pm

OPINION: Rejecting the make-believe that people can change sex

Judaism must grapple with the details of how to achieve inclusion while rejecting simple solutions that fail to heed reality or halachic integrity, say Shira and Rabbi Zvi Solomons

By Shira Solomons and Rabbi Zvi Solomons

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