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Image appearing to show Corey Edwards mimicking a Nazi salute and Adolf Hitler-style moustache.

March 27, 2026, 5:52 pm

Welsh Reform candidate stands down after ‘Nazi salute’ photo emerged

Reform UK candidate quits Senedd race after Nazi salute photo controversy, citing mental health concerns following mounting backlash

By JN Reporter

First premises at 21 High St, Bangor. Family lived over the shop. Note the bicycle. Welsh Jewish History

November 10, 2025, 4:53 pm

Historians search for memories of the North Wales Jewish community

Researchers focus on origins of jewellery company who made the royal wedding rings

By Michelle Rosenberg

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer meets Welsh First Minister Eluned Morgan.
Photo: Wikimedia Commons

October 8, 2025, 2:06 pm

Welsh First Minister stops short of condemning protests on 7 October anniversary

Eluned Morgan defends right to protest but declines to condemn pro-Palestine demonstrations on 7 October anniversary, despite Tory pressure

By Jewish News Reporter

The Charedi tourists in the process of dismantling a cross (Facebook)

August 21, 2025, 11:37 am

Charedi holidaymakers condemned after replacing cross with star of David

Video footage shows teenagers dismantling large loose-stone cross and erecting the Jewish symbol instead

By Jewish News Reporter

June 25, 2025, 11:09 am

New scholarship to celebrate Jewish medics in Wales

Academic post from Bangor University and Jewish History Association of Wales will research doctors, pharmacists, nurses and midwives from the eighteenth century onwards

By Michelle Rosenberg

Faiz Shah, Mohammad Comrie and Elijah Ogunnubi-Sime

March 16, 2025, 6:40 pm

‘I thought I was going to die’: Jewish music producer reveals kidnapping ordeal

Itay Kashti was tricked into travelling to a secluded rental cottage in Wales last summer under the guise of a music collaboration

By Annabel Sinclair

October 14, 2024, 4:27 pm

South Welsh Jewish community ‘deeply disturbed’ as Plaid Cymru calls for arms ban

All four of its MPs also called for a sporting and economic boycott over the war in Gaza in a vote at the party's conference on Saturday

By Michelle Rosenberg

February 21, 2024, 4:43 pm

Massive turn out for Merthyr Tydfil synagogue open day

'Palpable excitement' as Foundation for Jewish Heritage throws open the doors of planned Welsh Jewish Heritage Centre

By Michelle Rosenberg

First premises at 21 High St, Bangor. The family lived over the shop. Picture shared by were shared by Michael Manson, with whom the Jewish History Association of South Wales recorded an oral history interview.

November 27, 2023, 1:56 pm

Heritage project to research wider stories of Jewish Welsh communities

Six-month research task to preserve and share Jewish heritage in the mid, west and north of Wales following the success of similar project in the south

By Michelle Rosenberg

Suitcase featuring the minute books of the Cardiff Ladies’ Sewing Society (1926-1947) and Cardiff United Synagogue Ladies’ Guild (1952-1991)

September 14, 2023, 11:14 am

Discovered in a suitcase: 19th century records of south Wales Jewish community

Researchers excited by the historical find which includes documents and photographs soon to be made available online

By Michelle Rosenberg

First Minister receiving commissioned artwork from Michael Mail

August 4, 2023, 10:51 am

Welsh first minister visits Merthyr Synagogue Heritage Centre project

"A great pleasure, " says Mark Drakeford during meet with Foundation of Jewish Heritage, the charity behind plans to present the 250+ year history, culture and contribution of the Welsh Jewish community

By Michelle Rosenberg

April 17, 2023, 6:09 pm

Teaching tolerance through the stories of Wales’ Kindertransport stories

To date, more than 100 oral histories have been recorded, "all of them are urgent and relevant; these are declining communities so it's a race against time."

By Michelle Rosenberg

A family completing their Census form online

January 30, 2023, 11:30 am

Median age of person identifying as Jewish in England and Wales is 41 years old

Newly published results from the 2021 Census in England and Wales confirm more women identifying as Jews in England than males

By Lee Harpin

January 27, 2023, 4:10 pm

Project manager hired to lead restoration of historic Merthyr synagogue

Neil Richardson, who is overseeing plans for a Welsh Jewish Heritage centre on site, says Jewish experiences in Wales are valued and celebrated

By Michelle Rosenberg

Irene Kirstein Watts, a Kindertransport refugee, in 1937, aged 6.

Image from Irene Kirstein Watts’s interview from the archive of the USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education, 1998. For more information: http://sfi.usc.edu/.

January 24, 2023, 10:14 am

Children taught about Holocaust through eyes of Welsh child refugees

Free teaching materials built around video testimonies from child refugees who came to Wales in the 1930s to escape Nazi persecution.

By Michelle Rosenberg

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