Israel’s not so able semen

Alas for the reputation of local virility, research at Assaf Harofeh Hospital, Israel has found that sperm from abroad used for artificial insemination is more likely to produce pregnancies than from native donors.

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Justice for Jessica Ennis

Theo Caplan, a 15-year-old pupil at St Paul’s School in London, has been bending the ears of athletics authorities over the scoring system in the heptathlon which, he says, unfairly disadvantages British Olympic gold-medal hope Jessica Ennis.

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Who’s been shoplifting the JC?

Jewellery shop owners and bank managers in Edgware can breathe a sigh of relief as local thieves have a new target: copies of the Jewish Chronicle, according to stockists W H Smith.

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How to kvetch to the Knesset

Knesset member Einat Wilf, who chairs a sub-committee on Israel-diaspora relations, thinks we should all be having more of a say there.

She has promised that her committee will hold a debate on any subject if it is requested by a few thousand signatories from the diaspora: the petition must come from at least three Jewish communities and can be made via email or Facebook.

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Hayward gets out of a pickle

What a difference two letters make. The Telegraph’s chief sports writer Paul Hayward had some of our readers raging over a Euro 2012 piece about racist football fans in Krakow. “Plainly antisemitic abuse is more tolerable than skin-based hostility,” he wrote. Relief, then, when he apologised for a misprint of what should have read as “antisemitism is no more tolerable”.

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The sheikh’s racing steed

I’ve brought you Mezuzah and Menorah the racehorses but one that certainly will not be making up an equine minyan is Entifaadha, who ran in the Diamond Jubilee Handicap at Epsom. His owner is Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the deputy ruler of Dubai.

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