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Golders Green suspect charged with attempted murder after stabbing attack

One of the victims, Shloime Rand, has now been discharged from hospital

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

Police in Golders Green on April 29, 2026 (Image: Getty Images)

Women join interfaith solidarity walk to site of terror attack

‘We have to remember that loud, angry, divisive hatred is not the majority’

By Gaby Wine

2 min read

Leading the women's interfaith solidarity walk (Photo: Gaby Wine)

‘Globalise the intifada’ chant is ‘extreme racism’, says Starmer in Golders Green statement

The prime minister reiterated the government’s plans to ‘fast-track' legislation to proscribe ‘malign state actors’ in the coming weeks

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer delivers a press statement on the Golders Green stabbing attack on April 30, 2026 (BBC News)

By The JC Leader

Golders Green attacks turn next week’s elections into a test of Britain’s resolve on antisemitism

Voters now have a chance to stand with the Jewish community by rejecting sectarian candidates campaigning on hostility to Israel, who inflame rather than inform, and who divide rather than govern

3 min read

A Police forensics officer photographs the crime scene in Golders Green on April 29, 2026 (Image: Getty)

Green Party

Local Greens tell voters to support candidate suspended over antisemitism

By Jane Prinsley

4 min read

Fragments of a troubled past: (clockwise from left) a mural in modern-day Krakow; a memorial wall made of fragments of smashed Jewish tombstones; pre-war Galician Jews; Jewish theme park tat in Krakow

Poland

The Polish museum that honours lost Galician Jews

5 min read

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis speaks to the media at the scene where two people were stabbed in Golders Green, April 29, 2026 (Credit: Carl Court/Getty Images)

Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis

Expel Iranian ambassador over ‘martyrdom’ message, says Chief Rabbi

Sir Ephraim Mirvis called on ministers to follow Australia and Lebanon in removing the Islamic Republic’s representative as police investigate Telegram messages

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

High Tech

Udderly ingenious: the first robot milking parlour

By John Jeffay

2 min read

local elections

Watch the replay: Major parties to Face The Voters in JC livestream event ahead of local elections

By JC Reporter

1 min read

By Nicholas Lezard

‘Self-hating Jew’ is something of a misnomer – they think very highly of themselves indeed

4 min read

French Jews put hope in law tackling anti-Israel hate as antisemitic violence reaches record high

Anti-racists march for Palestine every week. Where are they when Jews are hunted on British streets?

Grappling with ‘the challenge of our time’ – the relationship between Judaism and Israel

‘I’ve got OCD, but I’m thriving’

Italy’s left-wing Nazis who call Jews ‘failed soap bars’

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King Charles

King Charles ‘agrees’ Iran should not have nuclear weapons, claims Trump

The US president appeared to reveal details of a private conversation with the monarch during a state dinner, seemingly in breach of royal protocol

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump arrive with King Charles III and Queen Camilla for a state dinner at the White House on April 28, 2026 (Getty Images)

Iran

Rubio rejects latest Iran ceasefire proposal

The reported deal would have seen the Strait of Hormuz reopen, but a delay in talks on nuclear limitations

By Melanie Swan

1 min read

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks at the State Department on April 24, 2026 (Getty Images)

Iran

Iran offers to reopen Hormuz, but no nuclear talks yet

The measures were reportedly part of Tehran’s latest proposal to end the war with the US, despite talks breaking down over the weekend

By Jacob Jaffa and Melanie Swan

1 min read

US forces patrol the Arabian Sea as part of a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz on April 20, 2026 (US Navy/Getty Images)

Operation Roaring Lion

Trump cancels envoys’ trip to Pakistan after Iranian delegation leaves

US president says Iran offered a better proposal that still falls short minutes after he aborted the planned flight of Witkoff and Kushner to Islamabad

By JC Reporter

1 min read

US President Donald Trump (Image: Getty)

World news

Eyal Shani

Israeli chef Eyal Shani closes Berlin restaurant following pro-Palestine threats

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

Germany

Syrian accused of plot to stab Jews and detonate bomb in Berlin suicide attack

By Rob Hyde

1 min read

Mourners pay a floral tribute to Bondi Beach shooting victims at the Bondi Pavilion in Sydney on December 15, 2025. A father-and-son team toting long-barrelled guns shot and killed 15 people including a 10-year-old girl at Sydney's Bondi Beach on December 14, with authorities labelling it an antisemitic terrorist attack on a Jewish festival. (Photo by Saeed KHAN / AFP via Getty Images)

Australia

Bondi victim benefit concert cancelled after Greek choir votes against singing with Jewish group

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

Holocaust survivors

Holocaust survivor and acclaimed psychologist Edith Eger dies aged 98

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses the press at an informal meeting of European Union leaders on April 23, 2026, in Ayia Napa, Cyprus (Getty Images)

Israel

Ukraine threatens Israelis with sanctions over ‘stolen’ grain ship

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Pro-Palestine protest in Berlin (Image: Getty Images)

Germany

German state looks to make denial of Israel’s right to exist illegal

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

UAE

Rockets fired from southern Lebanon are intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome air defence system over the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel, on April 11, 2026 (Getty Images)

Israel sent Iron Dome to UAE during Iran War

The world-renowned air defence technology was dispatched to the Emirates in a sign of closer security relations between the two regional powers

By Melanie Swan

1 min read

EU to impose sanctions on West Bank settlers, says French FM Lebanon ceasefire extended for three weeks

UK News

Stoke Newington

Blaze reported next to synagogue in north London

The cause of the fire is unknown at this stage

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Blaze reported next to synagogue in north London

Golders Green stabbing

Angry crowd gathers in Golders Green chanting ‘enough is enough’

Jews and non-Jews gathered in an emotional protest following the terror attack

By Jamie Shapiro

4 min read

Max Royston from Stop The Hate (Image: Elliott Franks)

Court and Crime

Neo-Nazi convicted of ‘race traitor’ attack plot after MI5 sting

The court heard that Alfie Coleman, 21, had spent lockdown immersing himself in the ‘extreme far-right’

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

Alfie Coleman (Image: Metropolitan Police)

Politics

Mapped: the 1,300 councillors who ‘exploit sectarianism’ by signing Israel boycott pledge

Palestine Solidarity Campaign letter urges divestment despite government warning it may be unlawful

By Lorin Bell-Cross

3 min read

Mapped: the 1,300 councillors who ‘exploit sectarianism’ by signing Israel boycott pledge

Opinion

In a fast-changing political landscape, will this new party force Benjamin Netanyahu from office?

Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett join forces – but even after cancer treatment, premier who’s dominated Israel for decades pledges he is determined to stay in power

By Natalie Lisbona

5 min read

In a fast-changing political landscape, will this new party force Benjamin Netanyahu from office?

By Dominic Green

Go to university in the US and what will you learn? Israel, capitalism and your nation are evil

Higher ed inculcates a ‘permission structure’ for political actions. It is a means to an ideological end, so all ideas that fall within it are legitimate

3 min read

By Ahron Asher Moss

Soon I’ll be in Israel, a war zone, worrying for my family’s safety in Starmer’s Britain

If you are not Jewish, don’t let the silent majority remain silent. Speak out and call out what’s wrong. And if you succeed, there may still be a Jew or two here in the year 2050

2 min read

By Stephen Pollard

After Golders Green, I feel anger at a government that has bitterly failed British Jews

Labour has spent two years portraying Israel as uniquely evil in the world and rewarding Hamas for its October 7 massacre by recognising a Palestinian state. What did they think would happen to our community?

2 min read

By Yaakov Katz

The real story of the Iran war: the strengthening of the Israel-Gulf alliance

The Iron Dome battery Jerusalem sent to the UAE, reportedly along with IDF troops, underscores a new reality. Arab countries understand there is only one country in the region that is both willing and capable of acting against a common threat

3 min read

By Rosie Kay

How antisemitism, fear and intolerance grip Britain’s art world

Our new report documents a cultural boycott crisis in the UK, with Jewish performers bearing the brunt. A separate toolkit provides practical steps to challenge it

4 min read

By Keith Black

As the court rejects our intervention backing Palestine Action ban, the threat to Jews only grows

How far should judges limit or intervene in the Home Secretary’s assessment of national security risks posed by groups creating terror on our streets?

3 min read

Israel

Israel through my lens

1 min read

Like (grand)mother, like (grand)daughter: Jess and Rosi

memoir

Noughties, Nazis and tittle-tattle – how my and my survivor grandma’s lives chime

Jess Robinson’s memoir combines memories of her life in her twenties in London with her grandmother’s under Hitler

6 min read

Film

The Devil Wears Prada 2 review: The Devil goes digital – but loses none of its icy sheen ★★★★

The original cast star in this iPhone-era remake, bringing back the best of the classic 2006 film without feeling like a reheat

By John Nathan

1 min read

Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci in 'Devil Wears Prada 2'. (Macall Polay / 20th Century Studios)

Film

Michael review: The real Jackson? The insights stop long before we get enough ★★

This ‘biography’ about the king of pop presents a bland, sanitised version of Jackson, played by his real-life nephew

2 min read

Jafaar Jackson in 'Michael'. (Lionsgate)

Food

Meet the anchovy evangelist: the Jewish foodie championing the ‘little fish with the big flavour’

Sudi Pigott is on a mission to convert the masses to the joys of anchovies. Her new book on the subject certainly makes compelling reading.

4 min read

Sudi Pigott has been obsessed with anchovies for decades (Photo: Sudi Pigott/ Instagram)

JC recipes

Brunch

Wholemeal toast with hazelnut cocoa butter and baked apples

By Luigi Fontana

Cook time: 20-25 minutes

Coconut and lime are a match made in tropical heaven (Picture: Inbal Bar-Oz and Leyla Freedman)

Passover bakes

Coconut and lime cake

By Sarah Mann-Yeager

Cook time: 70-90 minutes

Tu Bishvat

Spiced nuts, olives and raisins on hummus

By Georgia Freedman

1 min read

Cake

Prize-winning banana and chocolate cake

By Suzy Pelta

Cook time: 45-55 minutes

The Jewish Chronicle

Golders Green suspect charged with attempted murder after stabbing attack

Women join interfaith solidarity walk to site of terror attack

‘Globalise the intifada’ chant is ‘extreme racism’, says Starmer in Golders Green statement

Golders Green attacks turn next week’s elections into a test of Britain’s resolve on antisemitism

Local Greens tell voters to support candidate suspended over antisemitism

The Polish museum that honours lost Galician Jews

Expel Iranian ambassador over ‘martyrdom’ message, says Chief Rabbi

Udderly ingenious: the first robot milking parlour

Watch the replay: Major parties to Face The Voters in JC livestream event ahead of local elections

‘Self-hating Jew’ is something of a misnomer – they think very highly of themselves indeed

Editor's Picks

French Jews put hope in law tackling anti-Israel hate as antisemitic violence reaches record high

Anti-racists march for Palestine every week. Where are they when Jews are hunted on British streets?

Grappling with ‘the challenge of our time’ – the relationship between Judaism and Israel

‘I’ve got OCD, but I’m thriving’

Italy’s left-wing Nazis who call Jews ‘failed soap bars’

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King Charles ‘agrees’ Iran should not have nuclear weapons, claims Trump

Rubio rejects latest Iran ceasefire proposal

Iran offers to reopen Hormuz, but no nuclear talks yet

Trump cancels envoys’ trip to Pakistan after Iranian delegation leaves

World news

Israeli chef Eyal Shani closes Berlin restaurant following pro-Palestine threats

Syrian accused of plot to stab Jews and detonate bomb in Berlin suicide attack

Bondi victim benefit concert cancelled after Greek choir votes against singing with Jewish group

Holocaust survivor and acclaimed psychologist Edith Eger dies aged 98

Ukraine threatens Israelis with sanctions over ‘stolen’ grain ship

German state looks to make denial of Israel’s right to exist illegal

Israel sent Iron Dome to UAE during Iran War

UK News

Blaze reported next to synagogue in north London

Angry crowd gathers in Golders Green chanting ‘enough is enough’

Neo-Nazi convicted of ‘race traitor’ attack plot after MI5 sting

Mapped: the 1,300 councillors who ‘exploit sectarianism’ by signing Israel boycott pledge

Opinion

In a fast-changing political landscape, will this new party force Benjamin Netanyahu from office?

Go to university in the US and what will you learn? Israel, capitalism and your nation are evil

Soon I’ll be in Israel, a war zone, worrying for my family’s safety in Starmer’s Britain

After Golders Green, I feel anger at a government that has bitterly failed British Jews

The real story of the Iran war: the strengthening of the Israel-Gulf alliance

How antisemitism, fear and intolerance grip Britain’s art world

As the court rejects our intervention backing Palestine Action ban, the threat to Jews only grows

Israel through my lens

Noughties, Nazis and tittle-tattle – how my and my survivor grandma’s lives chime

The Devil Wears Prada 2 review: The Devil goes digital – but loses none of its icy sheen ★★★★

Michael review: The real Jackson? The insights stop long before we get enough ★★

Meet the anchovy evangelist: the Jewish foodie championing the ‘little fish with the big flavour’

JC recipes

Wholemeal toast with hazelnut cocoa butter and baked apples

Coconut and lime cake

Spiced nuts, olives and raisins on hummus

Prize-winning banana and chocolate cake