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The world may have stopped worrying about a nuclear-armed Iran – but Israel never will

6 min read

Screenshot of Ullah making the beheading threat (Image: X)

Court and Crime

Man admits threatening to behead Jewish schoolchildren

By JC Reporter

1 min read

"We won't sit by": Avi (left) and Sam Rosenfeld in front of a banner with Natan's photograph (Credit: John Jeffay)

IDF

Natan’s death could have broken me. Instead, I became an advocate for the Jewish state

Former Londoner Avi Rosenfeld’s son died in Gaza a year ago next week. He shares how his faith and love for Israel have turned his barely imaginable loss into a mission

By John Jeffay

5 min read

Mel Brooks speaks onstage at the "Spaceballs" screening during the 2024 TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Presley Ann/Getty Images for TCM)

By Howard Jacobson

Opinion: The day Mel Brooks told me his funniest-ever joke

1 min read

Immanuel College

Immanuel College appoints new CEO and interim head

By Siam Goorwich

1 min read

James Carville (right) onstage during Election Night Live With Brian Williams in November 2024 (photo: Matt Winkelmeyer / Getty Images for Amazon Studios)

US Politics

Veteran Democratic political strategist: ‘I don’t want to be in a political party that denies the right of the state of Israel to exist’

By Ben Conway

2 min read

World Cup 2026

Lionel Messi got away with bad tackle at World Cup as he’s ‘protected by the Jewish lobby’, claims Algerian TV pundit

Brooklyn Beckham ‘mocks family feud’ in video for delivery firm

Meet Matt Turner, the American Jew-ish goalie with his sights on a home World Cup win

Cape Verde’s Jew-ish striker takes to the pitch for historic draw with Uruguay

Man v. Football: Meet the American footie-loving fresser who is part of ITV’s World Cup team

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US Politics

Mamdani-backed candidates achieve clean sweep in New York primaries

The candidates, many of whom are associated with the party’s hard left, will now take on Republican opponents at the midterms in the heavily blue state

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Democratic Congressional candidate Brad Lander with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani after winning the 10th District Democratic primary on June 23, 2026 (Getty Images)

Basketball

NBA’s Sacramento Kings draft Israeli-born guard Emanual Sharp

Emanuel Sharp is the son of a Maccabi Tel Aviv legend

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Emanuel Sharp plays for the Houston Cougars against the Illinois Fighting Illini in the Sweet Sixteen of the 2026 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament at Toyota Center on March 26, 2026 (Getty Images)

Wikipedia

Wikipedia bans co-founder indefinitely for promoting ‘anti-bias initiative’

Editors said the ban was related to Larry Sanger’s ‘off-wiki canvassing’ for the proposal, which he denies.

By Aaron Bandler

3 min read

Wikipedia founder Larry Sanger (YouTube/GlenScrivener)

Lebanon

US proposes pilot plan for IDF to transfer territory to Lebanese army

Israel will reportedly maintain a reduced presence in a buffer zone, despite senior politicians’ insistence that they would retain all the occupied territory

By Melanie Swan

1 min read

An Israeli army Humvee patrols the northern border with Lebanon in the Upper Galilee on June 18, 2026 (Getty Images)

World news

Brooks in the 1983 music video Hitler Rap

Showbiz

‘Mel Brooks’ comedy is all about fearlessness, and there’s a lesson there for UK Jews’

By Nicole Lampert

3 min read

World Jewish Relief

UK community urged to support Ukraine’s Jews after deadliest month of war

By Alma Green

2 min read

Iran

Iranians squabble over whether they can keep chanting ‘death to Israel and America’

By Ali Hamedani

2 min read

Quake damage to the Hebreica community centre in Venezuela

Earthquake

Israeli charities send rapid response teams to Venezuela after deadly earthquake

By Alma Green

2 min read

Police near the scene of an active shooter situation in Montreal, June 22, 2026 (Credit: Andrej Ivanov/Getty Images)

Canada

Montreal gunman in fatal shooting of Jewish bystander and police officer ‘left manifesto containing antisemitic rhetoric’

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

9th April 1945. The US 9th army liberating Stalag 326, another German PoW camp where Soviet troops were held. At this camp, 30,000 Soviet prisoners died during the war. (Getty Images)

Nazis

Prison guard at Nazi PoW camp under investigation for ‘murder’

By Rob Hyde

2 min read

France

French President Emmanuel Macron pays his respects at the cenotaphs of the late historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch and his wife, Simonne Bloch, during their Panthéon induction ceremony in Paris on June 23, 2026 (Getty Images)

France honours Jewish resistance fighter executed by the Gestapo with Panthéon interment

Marc Bloch has been laid to rest alongside Voltaire, Alexandre Dumas, Émile Zola, and other national French heroes

By Andrew Bernard

2 min read

Holocaust survivor, 97, takes part in fundraising cycle ride from Auschwitz to Krakow Who is the Orthodox Jewish AI genius whose Google departure helped wipe £180 billion off parent firm’s stock market value?

UK News

Food

Challah rolls rise to the occasion at UK’s new gluten-free Jewish bakery

Anne Iarchy’s Little Home Baker in north London caters to coeliiac disease needs with delicious breads, biscuits and cakes that everyone can enjoy

By Alma Green

3 min read

Gluten-free challah rolls from Little Home Baker

Police

Man shouted ‘kill Zionist Jews’ at Orthodox woman in Waitrose queue

Police are investigating after a Jewish shopper in Harrow was allegedly subjected to antisemitic abuse

By Ian Leonard

2 min read

The Harrow Waitrose where the alleged incident took place (Image: Google Street)

Court and Crime

Ex-Soas student accused of pro-Hamas speech says killing of Israeli civilians could be ‘justified’

Sarah Cotte said it was not her ‘role to impose conditions on the Palestinian people and their struggle’

By JC Reporter

2 min read

View of the Soas Building at the University of London (Getty Images)

Union of Jewish Students

New UJS president pledges to strengthen links outside Jewish community

Raphi Leon was speaking at the State of the Union event on Thursday morning

1 min read

Incoming UJS president Raphi Leon (left) and outgoing president Louis Danker (Photo: UJS)

Opinion

The Sky News interview with Tucker Carlson is a horseshoe of betrayal

The more desperate legacy outlets get for audiences, the more closely they are aping the figures whose main contribution to our culture is to contaminate our lives with falsehood

By Jake Wallis Simons

3 min read

Yalda Hakim and Tucker Carlson (Image: Sky News)

By The JC Leader

Starmer restored Labour’s credibility on antisemitism – his successor's task will be to restore Britain’s

The community needs a government ready to repair the UK’s relationship with Israel and confront those who demonise the Jewish state and, all too often, this country’s Jews

2 min read

By Alex Hearn

Rooney’s antizionism isn’t political comment but a creed: Israel is evil, its defeat salvation

In her telling, to stand against the Jewish state is not merely permitted. It is the measure of whether you are a good person at all

4 min read

By Stephen Pollard

Another evidence-free UN genocide charge against Israel – and another media feeding frenzy

The accusations are unsubstantiated and violate the United Nations’ own standards for fact-finding missions. None of this will be reported, of course

4 min read

By Ashley Perry

The Iran deal hasn’t ended Arab cooperation with Jerusalem – but it has forced it underground

The Abraham Accords were not merely peace agreements but the foundations of a new regional bloc built around confidence in US leadership and Israeli power. Today, those perceptions are less certain

4 min read

By Sir Michael Ellis

Londoners should be delighted that Palantir is suing Mayor Sadiq Khan

Met Police was planning to use the firm’s artificial intelligence technology to speed up criminal investigations and root out corrupt officers

3 min read

By Rabbi Dr Yoni Birnbaum

Our holiday landlord realised we were Jewish. What happened next was deeply troubling

Once the property owner worked out that Yoni Birnbaum was a rabbi, he quizzed him on whether he was opposed to Israel

7 min read

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By Ariel Yemini, in collaboration with Nofei Yerushalayim

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By Stephen Morris

2 min read

Israel’s healthcare, educational resources, tech growth and cultural vitality make it a star attraction. Photo, Gettyimages

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‘Running towards’ a better quality of life

By Dov Newmark

1 min read

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The Zionist idea marches forward

By Matan Bar Noy

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Life

The Sleeping Beauty review: Lovely dancing, shame about the staging ★★★

By Joy Sable

2 min read

Obdurate insistence: the writer Vasily Grossman, and Jews arriving at Treblinka in August 1942

Books

From the Front Line review: Vasily Grossman gives us an unrivalled picture of the war

David Bennun is mesmerised by the Soviet Jewish journalist’s articles, and what they reveal about him

By David Bennun

5 min read

Photography

The Jews who made Marilyn Monroe into an icon

She was the twentieth century’s brightest star – and many of the photographers who framed her image were Jewish

By Melanie Abrams

6 min read

Marilyn Monroe in a classic photo by Milton H. Greene wearing a ballerina satin dress as she gives a seductive smile (Credit: Milton H. Greene)

musical

Songs by the genius behind Rent get their day in the sun

Jonathan Larson died on the eve of his hit musical’s premiere. Broadway producer Jennifer Ashley Tepper is keeping his melodies alive

By John Nathan

5 min read

The late Jonathan Larson outside the New York Theatre Workshop in 1986

chicken recipe

Korean-style BBQ chicken thighs

For best results, marinade these chicken thighs overnight

By Denise Phillips

Cook time: 25 mins

Denise Phillip's Korean-style BBQ chicken thighs (Photo: Justyna Radon)

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

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

The world may have stopped worrying about a nuclear-armed Iran – but Israel never will

Man admits threatening to behead Jewish schoolchildren

Natan’s death could have broken me. Instead, I became an advocate for the Jewish state

Opinion: The day Mel Brooks told me his funniest-ever joke

Immanuel College appoints new CEO and interim head

Veteran Democratic political strategist: ‘I don’t want to be in a political party that denies the right of the state of Israel to exist’

World Cup 2026

Lionel Messi got away with bad tackle at World Cup as he’s ‘protected by the Jewish lobby’, claims Algerian TV pundit

Brooklyn Beckham ‘mocks family feud’ in video for delivery firm

Meet Matt Turner, the American Jew-ish goalie with his sights on a home World Cup win

Cape Verde’s Jew-ish striker takes to the pitch for historic draw with Uruguay

Man v. Football: Meet the American footie-loving fresser who is part of ITV’s World Cup team

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Mamdani-backed candidates achieve clean sweep in New York primaries

NBA’s Sacramento Kings draft Israeli-born guard Emanual Sharp

Wikipedia bans co-founder indefinitely for promoting ‘anti-bias initiative’

US proposes pilot plan for IDF to transfer territory to Lebanese army

World news

‘Mel Brooks’ comedy is all about fearlessness, and there’s a lesson there for UK Jews’

UK community urged to support Ukraine’s Jews after deadliest month of war

Iranians squabble over whether they can keep chanting ‘death to Israel and America’

Israeli charities send rapid response teams to Venezuela after deadly earthquake

Montreal gunman in fatal shooting of Jewish bystander and police officer ‘left manifesto containing antisemitic rhetoric’

Prison guard at Nazi PoW camp under investigation for ‘murder’

France honours Jewish resistance fighter executed by the Gestapo with Panthéon interment

UK News

Challah rolls rise to the occasion at UK’s new gluten-free Jewish bakery

Man shouted ‘kill Zionist Jews’ at Orthodox woman in Waitrose queue

Ex-Soas student accused of pro-Hamas speech says killing of Israeli civilians could be ‘justified’

New UJS president pledges to strengthen links outside Jewish community

Opinion

The Sky News interview with Tucker Carlson is a horseshoe of betrayal

Starmer restored Labour’s credibility on antisemitism – his successor's task will be to restore Britain’s

Rooney’s antizionism isn’t political comment but a creed: Israel is evil, its defeat salvation

Another evidence-free UN genocide charge against Israel – and another media feeding frenzy

The Iran deal hasn’t ended Arab cooperation with Jerusalem – but it has forced it underground

Londoners should be delighted that Palantir is suing Mayor Sadiq Khan

Our holiday landlord realised we were Jewish. What happened next was deeply troubling

Sponsored

Living together, choosing together

Shipping for princes, celebrities … and for you

‘Running towards’ a better quality of life

The Zionist idea marches forward

Life

The Sleeping Beauty review: Lovely dancing, shame about the staging ★★★

From the Front Line review: Vasily Grossman gives us an unrivalled picture of the war

The Jews who made Marilyn Monroe into an icon

Songs by the genius behind Rent get their day in the sun

Korean-style BBQ chicken thighs

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