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Police officers gather in Trafalgar Square ahead of a planned protest in support of Palestine Action on October 4, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by Alishia Abodunde/Getty Images)

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Alan Levy from Heaton Park synagogue in Westminster Hall (Image: Jewish Representative Council of Greater Manchester/X)

Chanukah

Heaton Park survivor slams ‘platitudes and inactivity’ among politicians on antisemitism

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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A mourner arrives at Matilda's funeral carrying balloons bearing the 10-year-old's name, and in the shape of a bumblebee, a nod to her middle name, Bee (Photo: Getty)

Sydney terror attack

Balloons and bumblebee stickers: Matilda, 10, remembered as funerals held for Bondi victims

Funerals have taken place for Matilda, 10, and Alex Kleytman, 87

By Daniel Ben-David

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Sydney terror attack

Bondi shooter trained ‘how to hunt’ at local gun club prior to terror attack

By Jacob Jaffa

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Celebrating Chanukah with Chabad of Solihull, Rabbi Yehuda and Rebbetzin Dinie Pink, and Mayor of Solihull Annette Mackenzie and the Mayor of West Midlands Richard Parker

Sydney terror attack

‘As darkness shows its face again, we increase the light. We do not step back from Jewish life’

By Rabbi Yehuda Pink

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People visit a memorial at Bondi Pavilion before a candlelight vigil at Bondi Beach on December 16, 2025 in Sydney, Australia (Getty Images)

Sydney terror attack

Australia to tighten hate speech laws following Bondi massacre

By Jacob Jaffa

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Israel secures $34.7 billion natural gas deal with Egypt

Timeline of terror: How a scene of family joy at Bondi turned to horror

How to talk to your children about the Sydney terror attack, according to mental health experts

Thank socialism for our Chanukah doughnuts

Son of Rob Reiner and his wife Michele arrested after couple found dead in LA home

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Latest US News

‘Philosemite’ Trump laments decline of ‘powerful Jewish lobby’ in Washington

The term ‘Jewish lobby’ is widely understood to be derogatory, though Trump apparently employed it in an effort to be complimentary

By Andrew Bernard

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Donald Trump holds up a kippah with a picture of himself after he was shot and word 'Fight' at the 2025 White House Chanukah party (Photo: Getty)

Palestinian Authority

US expands travel ban to Palestinian Authority passport holders

Those travelling from the West Bank will face significant entry restrictions, while other nations like Syria have been hit with a total prohibition

By Jacob Jaffa

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The Palestinian authority passport travel document, for Palestinian residents of the Palestinian territories for the purpose of international travel, issued since April 1995 for people of Palestine

New York

‘My heart dropped’: New York couple find ‘free Palestine’ note in Chanukah gift from Bloomingdale’s

The store has apologised, offered a refund and opened an investigation

By Siam Goorwich

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A New York couple shared their shock at finding a "Free Palestine" note in a Chanukah gift ordered from Bloomingdale's (Picture: TikTok/ @andrewej5)

Boston

Nuclear scientist shot dead at Massachusetts home

US police launch homicide investigation after Nuno Loureiro dies from gunshot

By Jane Prinsley

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Award-winning scientist Nuno Loureiro died from gunshot wounds inflicted at his home on Monday (Photo: MIT/Jake Belcher)

World news

Manchester Jewish Museum

Manchester Jewish artist unveils new work to promote ‘harmony and cohesiveness’

By Gaby Wine

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JW3 Chief Executive Ray Simonson and Marcel Knobil removing padlocks on the Lovelock Bridge at JW3 (Credit: JW3)

Hostages

British Jewish communal leaders rejoice at return of the hostages

By Daniel Ben-David

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Adam Smyth was a passionate Liverpool fan (Photo: X)

Sydney terror attack

‘You’ll never walk alone’: Liverpool FC fan mourned after Sydney terror attack

By Katie Grant

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14-year-old Chaya was visited in hospital by United Hatzalah’s Psychotrauma Unit volunteers (Picture: United Hatzalah of Israel/ Instagram)

Sydney terror attack

‘A young Jewish heroine’: Jewish teen recovering in hospital after being shot shielding two young children from Bondi attack

By Siam Goorwich

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People participate in a candlelight vigil at Bondi Pavilion at Bondi Beach, December 16, 2025 (Credit: Audrey Richardson/Getty Images)

Sydney terror attack

Murdered British rabbi’s two-month-old baby was hit in Bondi terror attack

By Daniel Ben-David

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Sydney terror attack

Jewish bakery in Sydney facing ‘ceaseless’ antisemitism closes amid safety fears

By Siam Goorwich

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Sydney terror attack

Bondi shooter charged with 59 offences, including committing act of terrorism

Naveed Akram declined to be interviewed by police before he was charged in a bedside court hearing in his hospital room

By Jacob Jaffa

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Bondi shooter was follower of extremist preacher dubbed Sydney pro-Isis networks’ ‘spiritual leader’Tightening gun laws a ‘diversion’ from fighting antisemitism in Australia, claims former prime minister

UK News

BBC

‘Disgraceful’ BBC article describes intifada as a ‘largely unarmed uprising’

Corporation then edits piece to suggest intifada could be seen as ‘a call for peaceful resistance to Israel's occupation’

By Jane Prinsley

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BBC Broadcasting House in London (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

Hezbollah

Two Londoners in court charged with attending terrorist training in Lebanon

The two dual British-Lebanese nationals stood beside four guards in court while their wives sat in the public gallery

By Pol Allingham and Jordan Reynolds

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A traditional police lantern, on display outside a police station in central London, England (Image: Getty)

Metropolitan Police

'Globalise the intifada’ chant banned at protests in London and Manchester

Police forces in the cities have received new powers allowing them to take action against protesters using the phrase

By Jane Prinsley

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A woman holds up a sign that reads "anti-semitism kills" between police officers as people take part in a Chanukah candle-lighting organised by the Campaign Against Antisemitism and Chabad Lubavitch in Parliament Square in central London on December 15, 2025 in honour of victims of the mass shooting at a Jewish gathering in Australia (Getty Images)

Courts

Jewish woman accused of murdering husband ‘loved and just wanted to take care of him’

Daryl Berman has denied murdering her 84-year-old husband, David

By Ian Leonard

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Opinion

Jews had to die, repeatedly, before the UK acted on ‘globalise the intifada’

In Britain, and not only Britain, solidarity with the community tends to be post-mortem

By Stephen Daisley

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Relatives of Rabbi Eli Schlanger, who was killed in the December 14 Bondi beach terror attack, lean over his coffin during his funeral on December 17, 2025. (Image: Getty)

By Maureen Lipman

There I was, childishly delighted to drink my own face

In the Orient Hotel in Jerusalem I was presented with a cappuccino with my likeness on it. In froth. Don’t ask me how they did it or why I was singled out for special treatment

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By Melissa Langsam Braunstein

Antisemitism is a national security threat

Jew-hatred is not merely a moral failing. It operates as a strategic weapon – one that corrodes alliance cohesion, weakens deterrence, and undermines the legitimacy on which American power rests

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By Shany Mor

The dishonest ‘complicity’ argument driving the obsession with Israel

By a moral sleight of hand, anti-Zionists turn selective outrage into virtue, while refusing to reckon with the antisemitic violence their activism may inspire

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By Bernard-Henri Lévy

The intifada has been globalised

For what happened in Sydney could happen in any city in the world where one is still frivolous enough to believe that words are just words and that slogans bind only those who chant them

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By Jack Pinczewski

Australian society has failed its Jews at every level

The offers of more security funding are beyond parody. There is no wall high enough to protect the community, for the true barriers to the outrage at Bondi are those built in the human mind

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By Marc Cave

We need a new strategy to fight the ‘globalise the intifada’ murder campaign

Rebutting the lies told about Jews just doesn’t work, we need to define our own narrative

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Life

Spielberg’s first bite at the big time is celebrated in Hollywood

By Anthea Gerrie

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Theatre

It is called Christmas Day but it is about being Jewish

Nigel Lindsay on why he’s pleased to play a Jew on the London stage amid soaring antisemitism

By John Nathan

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Jewish food

Celebrating the spice-filled cuisine of my Bukharian Jewish ancestors

Lillian Cordell’s book, Miriam’s Table shares the food her parents grew up so it does not die out

By Eliana Jordan

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Food

Meet the courageous Jewish Instagrammers who are cooking up a storm for Israel

The online food world has become a cold house for Jews, but the hostility has made some influencers louder about their Zionism. Zoe Strimpel reports – and discovers their Chanukah treats

By Zoe Strimpel

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Solidarity: (l to r) Sivan Kobi, Adeena Sussman and Ruhama Shitrit

Theatre

This version of Roald Dahl’s BFG shows that giants can be small and pathetic ★★★★

Unlike The Witches in which Dahl was accused of having Jews in mind when he created the cabal of child-killers, Jewish theatregoers can relax with this adaptation

By John Nathan

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