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Magen David Adom UK’s vice president Judy Saphra with the Chaimov Family

SPECIAL REPORT: The new hidden Jews of Oporto

September 9, 2024, 12:50 pm

SPECIAL REPORT: The new hidden Jews of Oporto

More than 500 years after the expulsion of its community, the Jews of Portugal's second city are defiantly staging a renaissance

By Michelle Rosenberg

Natan Sharanksy Credit: Creative Image / The Rabbi Sacks Legacy

September 6, 2024, 2:30 pm

Sharansky appointed chair of Rabbi Sacks Legacy global advisory board

Celebrated human rights activist describes former Chief Rabbi as 'a moral lighthouse and his light is needed more than ever in these dark times'

By Michelle Rosenberg

September 4, 2024, 11:11 am

Prague names street after Kindertransport hero Nicholas Winton

Survivors honour the Briton who saved more than 10,000 Jewish children from the Nazis

By Michelle Rosenberg

September 3, 2024, 4:22 pm

March of the Living marks 80 years since liquidation of Lodz ghetto

Two Holocaust survivors among the hundreds retracing steps of the 200,000 Jews who passed through Nazi Europe's second-largest ghetto

By Michelle Rosenberg

September 3, 2024, 3:42 pm

War cannot stop MDA dedication ceremony

Emotional tribute as Magen David Adom ambulance gifted in memory of paramedic murdered on October 7th

By Michelle Rosenberg

CER Standing Committee I-2024 Lyon, France

September 2, 2024, 4:37 pm

Conference of European Rabbis launches initiative to support smaller Jewish communities

Community Package costing £63 a month over three years offers halachic advice including checking mikvaot and inspecting Torah scrolls

By Michelle Rosenberg

Hijar synagogue building Pic: Foundation For Jewish Heritage

August 28, 2024, 8:12 am

Next steps in restoration of medieval Spanish synagogue that survived 1492 expulsion

Historic shul in Hijar has been used as a church for the past 500 years

By Michelle Rosenberg

The Chamber of Deputies is the lower house of the Italian legislature. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

August 27, 2024, 7:58 pm

Italy’s New Communist Party publishes blacklist of ‘Zionist agents’ supporting Israel

Group condemned for naming more than 150 public figures across politics, media and business including journalists, chief rabbis and companies including Ahava and SodaStream

By Michelle Rosenberg

Qaid Farhan Alkadi, 52, at Soroka Hospital on Tuesday.

August 27, 2024, 1:41 pm

Israel rescues Bedouin hostage from tunnel in Khan Yunis after 326 days in captivity

Qaid Farhan Alkadi, 52, rescued from tunnel in Gaza; Bedouin father of 11 was a security guard on Oct. 7

By Michelle Rosenberg

August 27, 2024, 12:55 pm

‘I’m just a guy turning up for work’ – the amputee Paralympian racing for gold

Danny Sidbury lost his legs to meningitis when he was two years old. Now the Finchley-born Team GB athlete speaks to Jewish News ahead of his T54 wheelchair racing qualifier

By Michelle Rosenberg

The Adath Israel Poale Zedek Anshei Ozeroff Synagogue in Hampstead, Que., was one of more than 100 Jewish institutions across Canada to receive a bomb threat by email Wednesday morning. (François Sauvé/CBC)

August 22, 2024, 5:26 pm

‘We won’t stop causing terror’: more than one hundred Jewish institutions in Canada receive death threats

'You will all end up in a pool of blood': synagogues and doctors targeted via email with identical bomb threat on Wednesday morning

By Michelle Rosenberg

August 22, 2024, 4:45 pm

Bullets found in the bodies of all six hostages recovered by the IDF

Autopsy reports suggest they were shot to death by Hamas in captivity.

By Michelle Rosenberg

August 20, 2024, 4:08 pm

Candace Owens’ father in law Lord Farmer distances himself from her antisemitic rant

Peer takes to social media following divisive US political commentator's claims of 'Zionist media empire' and accusing Canaanites of 'sexual perversion and promiscuity'

By Michelle Rosenberg

August 20, 2024, 11:14 am

Scotland suspends talks with Israeli government

Announcement comes after Angus Robertson apologised after meeting deputy ambassador, saying no one intended the talks to be ‘presented as legitimatising the actions of the Israeli government in Gaza'

By Michelle Rosenberg

August 20, 2024, 9:22 am

Bodies of six hostages recovered from Gaza

Yagev Buchshtab, Alexander Dancyg, Avraham Munder, Yoram Metzger, Nadav Popplewell and Haim Perry’s bodies were rescued from the Khan Yunis area in Gaza

By Michelle Rosenberg

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