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Herstory: (from left) Tatiana Stupnikova, Ingeborg Kalnoky, Rebecca West and Harriet Zetterberg

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Immanuel College

‘If I could bottle what Immanuel College gives its pupils, it would be priceless’

By Naomi Greenaway

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Finchley Reform Synagogue

Police investigate ‘antisemitic hate crime’ after firebombing attempt at Finchley Reform Synagogue

The Met confirmed that masked suspects threw bottles believed to contain petrol at the building

By Daniel Ben-David and Elisa Bray

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Poland

The thriving Jewish centre 70km from Auschwitz that is the final riposte to the Nazis

By Lianne Kolirin

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Lebanon

Israel and Lebanon ‘on the same side’ after DC talks

By Melanie Swan

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Teachers at the site of the massacre at Kibbutz Kfar Aza

Education

Non-Jewish teachers visit Israel in new scheme to combat classroom hate

By Jane Prinsley

3 min read

Jeff Goldblum: Wolverhampton visit will complete my life

Unearthed papers reveal how Austria’s Nazi judges went back to work after 1945

The Jewish Renoir girls who were betrayed by France

In Carney’s Canada, the law protects antisemites, not Jews

From Lebanon and Iran to Gaza, three sets of talks to define Israel’s future

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Animal welfare

Vegan US rabbi announces £7,000 grant for UK shuls who explore plant-based lifestyle

The Synagogue Vegan Challenge is open for applications from UK communities for the first time

By Ben Conway

3 min read

Iran

‘Not the agreement we have’: Trump cautions Iran over Hormuz tolls

The US president guaranteed oil would be allowed through the vital shipping line after striking a ceasefire deal with Tehran

By Jacob Jaffa

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US President Trump speaks about the conflict in Iran in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on April 6, 2026 (Getty Images)

Basketball

American-Israeli basketball star Amar’e Stoudemire gets spot in Hall of Fame

The six-time NBA All-Star converted to Judaism after retiring

By JC Reporter

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Amar'e Stoudemire speaks during a press conference for the 2026 Inductees to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images)

Iran

US revokes green cards of Soleimani’s niece and grandniece

The women reportedly enjoyed a ‘lavish’ lifestyle in the US

By JC Reporter

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Gen Qassem Soleimani, the slain commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps' feared Quds Force, pictured in 2013 (Photo: Getty)

World news

Left Lord Mayor of Dublin Ray McAdam, right former-Israeli President Chaim Herzog, background Herzog Park (Lord Mayor of Dublin, Getty Images, Google)

Ireland

Lord Mayor of Dublin apologises for scrapped plan to rename Herzog Park

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

Last week the UK announced it would not permit West to enter the country this summer (Image: Getty)

France

Kanye West postpones Marseille gig indefinitely as officials ‘very determined’ to prevent show

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (Credit: Odd ANDERSEN / AFP via Getty Images)

Antisemitism

Zelensky signs law criminalising antisemitism in Ukraine

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

Holocaust survivors Irene Shashar and Gita Koifman with former hostages Agam Berger and Ori Megidish (Yossi Zeliger)

Yom Hashoah

Hamas hostages, diaspora terror victims and Shoah survivors together in March of the Living

By Rob Hyde

2 min read

Lebanon

Hezbollah chief calls on Israel and Lebanon to abandon ‘pointless’ negotiations

By Melanie Swan

1 min read

Hungary

Hungary to rejoin ICC after Magyar wins landslide

By Jacob Jaffa

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Israel

‘You will not force us into ghettos again’: Israeli ministers hit out at Europe on eve of Yom HaShoah

Prime Minister Netanyahu said the continent was ‘afflicted by profound moral weakness’, while Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called on the German chancellor to ‘bow his head and apologise a thousand times’

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

Last year worst for antisemitic violence in West in 30 years European Jewish leaders ‘deeply disturbed’ by Passover arson attack on North Macedonia’s only synagogue

UK News

Chai Cancer Care

The art of healing at Chai Cancer Care

To mark World Art Day on April 15, Ben Conway finds out how creative workshops are transforming the outlook of people with cancer

By Ben Conway

3 min read

Etty Debourcieu in the art studio (photo: Chai Cancer Care)

Metropolitan Police

Met faces questions from the rebbe and rebbetzin in shul hours before Shabbat

Deputy commissioner meets community at Woodford Forest Synagogue

By Jane Prinsley

4 min read

Metropolitan Police Deputy Commissioner Matt Jukes, Rabbi Mordechai Wollenberg and Rebbetzen Blima Wollenberg at Woodford Forest United Synagogue

IRGC

Exclusive: Jerusalem urges Britain to ban IRGC amid terror warnings

First-ever official call by Israel for UK to proscribe group comes as experts raise fears over threat at home and abroad

By Jane Prinsley

5 min read

IRGC and Basij forces hold military manoeuvres in Tehran, January 10, 2025 (Image: Getty)

Antisemitism

UK suffers ‘highest number per capita of antisemitic assaults’ in the diaspora

The UK had the most violent antisemitic assaults per capita in the last year, followed by Australia, France, and Canada

By Daniel Ben-David

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Rabbi Daniel Walker and King Charles III view floral tributes during a visit to Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Manchester, October 20, 2025 (Credit: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Opinion

The Kanye West affair isn’t as bad as it seems –it’s much, much worse

It is a curious irony that of only one people on Earth is it demanded they must at all times behave with perfect Christian charity – and that is the Jews

By David Bennun

3 min read

Kanye West, also known as Ye (Image: Getty)

By Arsen Ostrovsky

Amid rising antisemitism, the unbreakable solidarity between Jews worldwide

From Manchester to Sydney, from London to Melbourne, our communities increasingly find themselves bound not only by shared heritage and faith, but by a shared vulnerability

5 min read

By Dominic Green

Trump disowned ‘kooky’ Tucker Carlson – only for the BBC to leap into the gutter for the conspiracist

A democracy can survive admitting a clown like Kanye West into the circus at Finsbury Park. But it loses its moral compass when its chief broadcaster airs a hateful fake on one of its main political shows

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By Stephen Pollard

Lewis Goodall and Israel’s alleged world domination

Accusations that eerily echo classic antisemitic conspiracy theories, repackaged with the Jewish state standing in for the Jews, have now entered the mainstream

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By Sir Keir Starmer

Starmer’s Yom HaShoah message: I will not look away from antisemitism

The Prime Minister writes for the JC ahead of the memorial day

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By Marc Goldberg

The weaponisation of antisemitism against the British state

Hatred of Jews unites Islamists, the extreme right and parts of the extreme left ‘in a kind of modern-day Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact’

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By The JC

Letters to the Editor, April 10 2026

Should British Jews make aliyah? And the way the needy were helped in the past

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Trust me, I'm a doctor: Noah Wyle as Dr Michael 'Robby' Robinavitch and Lucas Iverson in The Pitt

Television

ER star Noah Wyle: Why I’m playing a Jewish doctor in The Pitt

By Elaine Penn

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The synagogue Maciejow, now Lukiv, Ukraine. (Arolson Archive)

Yom Hashoah

Yom HaShoah: The mission to uncover the names and fates of a million murdered Jews

Digitisation has revolutionised Holocaust archives. From the UK and Israel to Poland and Germany, the JC talks to the people whose life's work is to help others find out what happened to their relatives

By Lianne Kolirin

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Books