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Prime Minister Andy Burnham hosts his first Cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street, London. Picture date: Tuesday July 21, 2026. (Image: Eddie Mulholland/Daily Telegraph/PA Wire)

By Lorin Bell-Cross

Opinion: With ‘unapologetic Zionist’ Rachel Reeves out, who now will hold the line for Israel?

3 min read

The excavation site where burnt wooden beams were discovered in the City of David (Credit: Reut Vilf, City of David)

Jerusalem

Charred Iron Age beams dating to destruction of Solomon’s Temple unearthed in Jerusalem

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

Ed Miliband arrives at Downing Street for Keir Starmer's final cabinet meeting on July 15, 2026 (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

Labour Party

Opinion: He enabled Corbyn, gave Assad butchery the green light – and now catastrophic Ed Miliband is our foreign secretary

We all know what is next: Burnham can now launch further sanctions against Israel with the support of a Jewish minister

By Stephen Pollard

2 min read

Aish UK

Record number of interrailers unite at Aish UK Shabbat in Budapest

By Gaby Wine

2 min read

An exhibit at Trent Park House of Secrets in Enfield

Second World War

New museum sheds fresh light on the Jewish ‘secret listeners’ who helped save Britain from Nazis

By Mark Wood

2 min read

The entrance to London Luton Airport (Photo by Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)

Airlines

Series of ‘accidents’ involving Israir planes at Luton Airport under investigation

By Mark Wood

1 min read

Editor’s picks

Opinion: Why I backed the Kairos motion – without wavering in my support for Israel to live in peace and security

100-year-old Miriam gets surprise visit from the Chief Rabbi

Viagra could be medics’ secret weapon against breast cancer, Israeli research finds

Rabbi Rebecca Birk to be new senior rabbi of LJS

Australia has ‘disturbing parallels’ with Nazi Germany, says Shoah survivor representative

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Benjamin Netanyahu

Netanyahu to travel to Washington for Graham funeral as US-Iran conflict escalates

The prime minister is expected to present President Trump with Israeli intelligence regarding the Islamic Republic during the trip

By Melanie Swan

1 min read

US President Trump shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu during a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago club on December 29, 2025 (Getty Images)

Culture

Head of PEN condemns article highlighting discrimination against Jews and Israelis

The president of America’s top body defending freedom of expression resigned in protest over the piece

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Dinaw Mengestu has resigned from a group that defends freedom of speech in the arts and journalism over the piece (Photo: Getty)

FBI

FBI investigating hate crime after ‘arson attack’ on Zionsville home displaying Israeli flag

A blaze at the property in the small Indiana town caused more than $150,000 in damage

By JC Reporter

1 min read

A property in Zionsville, Indiana, damaged in an alleged arson attack on July 10, 2026 (X/MikePence)

Orthodox Judaism

Orthodox IDF veteran signs historic pro baseball contract

Zev Moore becomes only the second practising Orthodox Jew to play in the majors

By Josh Hasten

3 min read

Zev Moore of Israel hits an RBI out in the first inning during the Israel v Germany game in the Baseball European Championship at Neptunus Familiestadion in Rotterdam, Netherlands, on September 26, 2025 (Getty Images)

World news

Judit Polgár attends the 'Queen Of Chess' Premiere during the 2026 Sundance Film Festival at Eccles Center Theater in Utah on January 27, 2026 (Credit: Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)

Hungary

Jewish ‘Queen of chess’ Judit Polgár declines nomination for Hungarian president

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

Iran

‘I’ve never met supreme leader,’ says Iranian foreign minister

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Historian and former US antisemitism tsar Deborah Lipstadt (Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty)

United Nations

United Nations ‘failing Jewish people greatly’ says former antisemitism tsar Deborah Lipstadt

By Natalie Lisbona

3 min read

Qatar

Qatar ‘in secret talks’ to secure release of Jewish prisoners held by Iran

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

Hungary

She’s Jewish, the best female chess player of all time – and could be Hungary’s next president

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

Karim Khan

Karim Khan sex abuse accuser denies being part of Mossad

By Gaby Wine

2 min read

October 7

Yahya Sinwar, leader of Hamas, had made detailed plans of both physical and psychological attacks on Israel (Photo: Getty)

Sinwar had planned to attack 220 sites, newly released documents reveal

The architect of the October 7 massacres had also intended to use a force of 10,000 terrorists

By JC Reporter

2 min read

Australian university head apologises over encampments US strikes Iranian targets after soldiers killed in Jordan

UK News

Maccabiah Games

Maccabiah Games: ‘There’s no one more surprised than me’, says GB double medallist

Tennis players Sarah Schechter and Samantha Cohen were jointly responsible for GB’s haul of three medals

By Ben Conway

5 min read

Left to right: silver medallist Samantha Cohen, general team manager Andrew Myers, gold and bronze medallist Sarah Schechter (photo: Alex Mandel)

Church of England

Bishop warns that Synod vote will stoke antisemitism

The Bishop of Blackburn says the vote to ‘hear’ a controversial document written by Palestinian Christians will make dialogue more difficult

By JC Reporter

2 min read

Church of England Synod considering the Kairos Palestine motion in July 2026

Maccabi Tel Aviv

Police chief who presided over Maccabi-Villa scandal walked away from job with almost £60,000

Craig Guildford stepped down after ‘damning’ report into his force’s handling of the ‘Israeli fan ban’ match

By Mark Wood

4 min read

Chief Constable Craig Guildford of West Midlands Police (Parliament TV)

Charity Commission

London mosque already under Charity Commission scrutiny released sermon blaming ‘all evil’ in Muslim world on Jews

Egyptian cleric who delivered the rant had also allegedly said elsewhere, ‘the final war will begin in which we will kill every Jew’

By Daniel Ben-David

4 min read

London mosque already under Charity Commission scrutiny released sermon blaming ‘all evil’ in Muslim world on Jews

Opinion

Synod’s Kairos II is not a difficult truth about Israel but a defamatory manifesto

The objection is not that the Church of England listened to Palestinian Christians but that it chose to do so through one of the most extreme documents produced in recent years – one that portrays the Jewish state as inherently genocidal and racist

By The JC Leader

3 min read

General Synod July 14, 2026 (Image: Church of England, YouTube)

By Stephen Pollard

Gidon Sa’ar backing Argentina in the World Cup needlessly antagonises ordinary Brits

In the context of calls for Israel to recognise the Falklands as Argentinian, the foreign minister’s social media post is more than banter

2 min read

By Noa Riven

The real reason Hezbollah should be worried

A broad civic movement against the terror group is emerging within Lebanon – even among the Shi’ite community

3 min read

By Bishop Philip North

The Church of England’s ill-worded Kairos II motion heightened Jewish fears – and I deeply regret it

We must make clear that to ‘hear’ is not to ‘accept’, still less to justify language that contravenes the IHRA antisemitism definition. Above all, we must now reflect afresh and listen attentively to a wider range of voices

4 min read

By Ashley Perry

Why Jerusalem is increasingly wary of Erdoğan’s Turkey

The language emanating from Ankara increasingly resembles that heard in Tehran. The difference is that it is backed by a far bigger economy, NATO's second-largest army, and expanding influence across the region

4 min read

By Gary Cohen

Burnham compromised himself and his party by pandering to the antizionist crowd

Appeasing the haters won’t work and will only fuel the growing sectarian politics with which this country is already struggling. This is not leadership, and Britain will pay dearly for it

7 min read

By Rabbi Mendel Kalmenson

The Rebbe always played offence – where others counted losses, he counted possibilities

Football, like life, is played as much in the mind as on the field: when you stop playing to win, you start playing not to lose. Judaism asks us not merely to survive, but to flourish

4 min read

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By Gina Benjamin

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By Sharon Lurie

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By Mark Sumray

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Life

Swan Lake review: Dubious choreographic choices – but this Swan should still be seen ★★★

2 min read

Israel's Peter Paltchik reacts after beating Switzerland's Daniel Eich in the judo men's 100kg bronze medal bout of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games (photo: Luis Robayo / AFP via Getty Images)

Zaka

Israeli Olympic medallist judoka auctioning match-worn gi to fund PTSD treatment for disaster response teams

The minimum bid for Peter Paltchik’s gear is $50,000

By Ben Conway

1 min read

Travel

Keeping it cool in cosmopolitan Marseille

Gaby Koppel returns to France’s vibrant port city in search of an elusive Jewish-Tunisian cafe

By Gaby Koppel

5 min read

The vibrant streets of La Panier in Marseille (Photo: Getty)

Paris Olympics 2024

‘After every competition, I gave my medal to my mother’, says Israeli Olympic medallist

Rhythmic gymnast Ofir Shaham shares the sacrifices and dreams which culminated in Parisian glory two years ago

By Ben Conway

2 min read

Ofir Shaham (second from left) with teammates celebrating their Olympic silver medals in the rhythmic gymnastics all around event at the 2024 Games in Paris (photo: Jamie Squire / Getty Images)

Jewish self-defence

We are loud and proud because we need to be

Stop the Hate was set up in the wake of October 7. The mission? To ensure that every anti-Israel demonstration in the UK would be accompanied by a noisy Zionist counter-protest

By Nicole Lampert

9 min read

Bold as brass: Stop the Hate co-founder Itai Galmudy Photo: Elliot Franks

JC recipes

Light and fresh, this salad pairs particularly well with fish (Photo: Columbus Leth)

Recipes

Kartoffelsalat – Danish potato salad

By Trine Hahnemann

Cook time: 30 mins

Shavuot recipe

Raspberry goat’s cheese bars

By Jake Cohen

Cook time: 60 minutes

Vegan

Herby lemon bean salad with asparagus and pumpkin seeds

By Denise Phillips

Cook time: 20 minutes

Bil’eifi: The Taste of My Iraqi Home is on sale now (Photo: Giora Hirsch)

Jewish food

Bil’eifi cookbook: a love letter to Iraqi-Jewish food

By Siam Goorwich

4 min read

The Jewish Chronicle

Opinion: With ‘unapologetic Zionist’ Rachel Reeves out, who now will hold the line for Israel?

Charred Iron Age beams dating to destruction of Solomon’s Temple unearthed in Jerusalem

Opinion: He enabled Corbyn, gave Assad butchery the green light – and now catastrophic Ed Miliband is our foreign secretary

Record number of interrailers unite at Aish UK Shabbat in Budapest

New museum sheds fresh light on the Jewish ‘secret listeners’ who helped save Britain from Nazis

Series of ‘accidents’ involving Israir planes at Luton Airport under investigation

Editor’s picks

Opinion: Why I backed the Kairos motion – without wavering in my support for Israel to live in peace and security

100-year-old Miriam gets surprise visit from the Chief Rabbi

Viagra could be medics’ secret weapon against breast cancer, Israeli research finds

Rabbi Rebecca Birk to be new senior rabbi of LJS

Australia has ‘disturbing parallels’ with Nazi Germany, says Shoah survivor representative

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Netanyahu to travel to Washington for Graham funeral as US-Iran conflict escalates

Head of PEN condemns article highlighting discrimination against Jews and Israelis

FBI investigating hate crime after ‘arson attack’ on Zionsville home displaying Israeli flag

Orthodox IDF veteran signs historic pro baseball contract

World news

Jewish ‘Queen of chess’ Judit Polgár declines nomination for Hungarian president

‘I’ve never met supreme leader,’ says Iranian foreign minister

United Nations ‘failing Jewish people greatly’ says former antisemitism tsar Deborah Lipstadt

Qatar ‘in secret talks’ to secure release of Jewish prisoners held by Iran

She’s Jewish, the best female chess player of all time – and could be Hungary’s next president

Karim Khan sex abuse accuser denies being part of Mossad

Sinwar had planned to attack 220 sites, newly released documents reveal

UK News

Maccabiah Games: ‘There’s no one more surprised than me’, says GB double medallist

Bishop warns that Synod vote will stoke antisemitism

Police chief who presided over Maccabi-Villa scandal walked away from job with almost £60,000

London mosque already under Charity Commission scrutiny released sermon blaming ‘all evil’ in Muslim world on Jews

Opinion

Synod’s Kairos II is not a difficult truth about Israel but a defamatory manifesto

Gidon Sa’ar backing Argentina in the World Cup needlessly antagonises ordinary Brits

The real reason Hezbollah should be worried

The Church of England’s ill-worded Kairos II motion heightened Jewish fears – and I deeply regret it

Why Jerusalem is increasingly wary of Erdoğan’s Turkey

Burnham compromised himself and his party by pandering to the antizionist crowd

The Rebbe always played offence – where others counted losses, he counted possibilities

Sponsored

As Hearing Care Changes, Independent Expert Advice Matters More Than Ever

Designs on your summer décor

Bringing out the barbecue? Try Sharon Lurie’s best braai

The rise of super prime north London

Life

Swan Lake review: Dubious choreographic choices – but this Swan should still be seen ★★★

Israeli Olympic medallist judoka auctioning match-worn gi to fund PTSD treatment for disaster response teams

Keeping it cool in cosmopolitan Marseille

‘After every competition, I gave my medal to my mother’, says Israeli Olympic medallist

We are loud and proud because we need to be

JC recipes

Kartoffelsalat – Danish potato salad

Raspberry goat’s cheese bars

Herby lemon bean salad with asparagus and pumpkin seeds

Bil’eifi cookbook: a love letter to Iraqi-Jewish food