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Heaton Park Synagogue

Two Iranian men who arrived on small boats ‘identified Heaton Park Synagogue as bomb plot target’

By JC Reporter

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BRIGHTON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 3: A pro-Palestine demonstration during Day Two of the Green Party Conference at Brighton Centre on October 3, 2026 in Brighton, England. The Green Party of England and Wales enters its October 2026 annual conference with a mixed picture for the party. According to recent polling, national voting intention for the Greens has dropped to 10%, down from a peak of 15% in March, following the Greens' first ever Westminster by-election victory in Gorton and Denton. (Photo by Alishia Abodunde/Getty Images)

Anti-Zionism

Greens pass ‘Zionism is racism’ motion leaving Jewish members shocked and in tears over ‘betrayal’

Vote in favour of policy is 1,022 to 813 against, as party also rejects safeguards for Jews attending Zionist synagogues

By Jane Prinsley

6 min read

FA Chairman David Bernstein looks on during the Barclays Premier League match between Tottenham Hotspur and Sunderland at White Hart Lane in London, May 19, 2013 (Credit: Ian Walton/Getty Images)

Football

Exclusive: Ireland may have breached football rules in Israel clash, says former FA chair

By Daniel Ben-David

3 min read

Battle of Cable Street

Mob vows to wear keffiyehs and confront ‘Zionists’ at Cable Street 90th anniversary event

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

Rama Duwaji during the New York Knicks Championship ticker tape parade and victory rally celebrating winning the 2026 NBA Finals in New York City, June 18, 2026 (Credit: Angelina Katsanis/Getty Images)

Zohran Mamdani

Mamdani’s wife attended luxury Islamic ‘wellness’ retreat that called for elimination of Israel

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

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NY Jewish groups highlight lack of focus on antizionist violence in Mamdani’s new antisemitism strategy

Jewish leaders did, though, welcome a greater emphasis on the issue of Jew-hate, more funding for community security and a renewed drive for better Holocaust education

By Hayley Cregor

2 min read

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani arrives to meet with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at the residence of Brazil's ambassador to the UN in New York City on September 21, 2026 (Getty Images)

Flydubai terror attack

Flydubai pilot who ‘tried to bring down plane’ was a ‘terrorist or a whackjob,’ claims Trump

Israeli authorities have branded the incident an ‘attempted jihadist terror attack’

By Hayley Cregor

1 min read

US President Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office on September 30, 2026 (Getty Images)

USA

US Government sues Ohio healthcare firms after doctor fired ‘for being Jewish’

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleges that the surgeon ‘faced a barrage of comments in the workplace blaming the Jews’ for October 7

By Hayley Cregor

2 min read

Andrea Lucas, chair of the EEOC (YouTube/FortuneConversations)

Marco Rubio

RAF Fairford suspected terror plot involved ‘a foreign actor’, claims Marco Rubio

Five suspects, all British nationals in their 20s, have been released on bail

By JC Reporter

3 min read

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio attends a multilateral meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council during the 81st session of the UN General Assembly in New York City on September 22, 2026 (Getty Images)

World News

Austria

Austrian President criticised by Jewish groups, Jerusalem for anti-Israel statements

By Benjamin Weinthal

4 min read

(Illustrative) A Flydubai Boeing 737 MAX 8 performs a display flight at Al-Maktoum International Airport in Dubai on November 17, 2025 (Getty Images)

Flydubai terror attack

Flydubai pilot underwent ‘Islamist indoctrination,’ Netanyahu claims

By Melanie Swan

1 min read

Gaza

Exclusive: Deradicalised curriculum for children in Gaza classes sows seeds of hope

By Jane Prinsley

6 min read

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds up a pager as he speaks during the 81st United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, on September 24, 2026. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP via Getty Images)

Letter from Jerusalem

‘Israel will win – we have no choice’: A message of defiance and veiled warning to Iran on the UN world stage

By Natalie Lisbona

6 min read

A demonstrator holds a Palestinian flag inside a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Toronto campus on May 2, 2024 (Getty Images)

Canada

Toronto student groups to hold vigil ‘honouring martyrs’ on October 7 anniversary

By Hayley Cregor

2 min read

Flydubai Flight 1073 on the tarmac at Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Airport in Tabuk, Saudia Arabia (X/AmitSegal)

Flydubai terror attack

Netanyahu: Too early to say whether Iran was involved in Flydubai attack

By Melanie Swan

2 min read

Chanukah

Must-have Chanukah Barbie sold out just days after launch

Jewish entrepreneur Ruth Handler created the famous brand of dolls in 1959 and the latest addition has a menorah jumper with candles that light up

By Max Salt

2 min read

UK News

Police

Two Iranians charged over suspected Yom Kippur terror plot targeting Manchester Jewish community

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood confirmed that both men arrived in the UK by small boat ‘several years ago’

By JC Reporter

2 min read

A Greater Manchester Police van in Manchester city centre (Getty Images)

Heaton Park Synagogue

Exclusive: Salford City Council using a fifth of Jewish safety fund on street art

A sizeable part of funding allocated to protect the Jewish community after last year’s Heaton Park terror attack is being spent on murals to celebrate the city’s centenary, the JC can reveal

By Jamie Shapiro

3 min read

Members of the Jewish community gather for a vigil and one-minute silence outside Heaton Park Synagogue on October 9, 2025, a week after the terror attack that left two congregants dead (Getty Images)

Mossad

Former CIA chief warns Israel could cut intelligence ties with Britain over settlement sanctions

Ralph Goff suggested that the loss of the intelligence-sharing relationship would harm MI6 more than it would Mossad

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

Ralph Goff during an interview with US Representative Dan Crenshaw (YouTube/DanCrenshaw)

RAF

Labour ‘hell-bent’ on wrecking UK-Israel relations, Israeli officials claim

The row comes in the wake of Israeli intelligence reportedly warning the government about a potential Iranian terror plot

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

The main gate of RAF Fairford on September 27, 2026 (Getty Images)

Opinion

Holocaust education is not working in the fight against contemporary antisemitism

It teaches people to care about dead Jews, not living ones, universalises a unique tragedy, consigns the hatred to the past and ignores Israel

By Baroness Ruth Deech

5 min read

The railway track leading to the 'Death Gate' at the Auschwitz II Birkenau extermination camp (Image: Getty)

By David Harris

When I saw Moscow Jews defying the KGB on Simchat Torah to proclaim: We are still here

The street to the Great Choral Synagogue sloped gently downhill, but I stood transfixed at the top. I couldn’t move. I began to sob. The street in front was filled with masses of people

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By Tanya Gold

Tracing Oxford’s hidden Jewish past along Deadman’s Walk

It is in part a history of conveyancing, as Jacob of London sold a house to Walter de Merton for his college

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By Rabbi Michael Pollak

The fallout from October 7 has eclipsed our sense of religious mission

At the core of our autumn festivals lies a call to universalism

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By Anthony Broza

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Always on hand for advice: UJC chaplains and head office team, 2026-27. Photo by UJC

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By Sophie Dunoff

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At the Technion, Jewish and Arab students study alongside each other every day. Photo by Technion Uk

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By Alan Aziz

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Life

JC Life’s guide to the best new books for children

By Angela Kiverstein

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Venice

New photos from the ghetto

Photographer Judy Goldhill’s images depicts the dense architecture of Europe’s first ghetto in tension with the sky

By Naomi Gryn

1 min read

Jews in Arab lands

Unlocking the V&A’s forgotten Jewish treasures

Deep in the museum’s depots sits a collection of hidden artefacts that tell the story of Jewish traders and artisans in the Middle East and North Africa. Almost never exhibited, they can be yours to ogle and hold for an afternoon

By Michal Friedlander

6 min read

The silver candelabrum presented to Sir Moses and Lady Judith Montefiore by Saïd, ruler of Egypt in 1858 (Credit: The Victoria and Albert Museum, London)

documentary

The Last First: Winter K2: ‘My Alpine whodunnit is a salutary tale for our time’

Amir Bar-Lev’s new documentary about extreme mountain climbing is really about our search for a meaningful life, he says

By James Mottram

4 min read

Narrow escape: Colin O'Brady in the new documentary The Last First: Winter K2 and (inset) film-maker Amir Bar-Lev

October 7

‘I lost my unborn child’s father on October 7’: Israeli widows reflect on motherhood and grief

Of the hundreds of Israelis who lost partners in the massacre, 46 were pregnant women. Two of them share their pain

By Lianne Kolirin

9 min read

Barely imaginable: Raphael looks at a photograph of his dead father, Amir

JC recipes

Flora Shedden's roasted squash and apple soup (Photos: Laura Edwards)

Soups

Roasted squash and apple soup with crispy crumbs

By Flora Shedden

Cook time: 55 mins – 1hr, 5 mins

Pasta recipe

Spicy baked orzo with feta and dill

By Sue Quinn

Cook time: 40 mins

Sarah Mann-Yeager's chicken and rice soup (Photo: Inbal Bar-Oz)

Chicken soup

Hearty chicken and rice soup

By Sarah Mann-Yeager

Cook time: 25-30 mins

Sukkot recipe

Apple and date crumble bars

By Denise Phillips

Cook time: 50 mins

The Jewish Chronicle

Heroic Flydubai captain ‘who was attacked with axe’ invited to Israel for Independence Day

Two Iranian men who arrived on small boats ‘identified Heaton Park Synagogue as bomb plot target’

Greens pass ‘Zionism is racism’ motion leaving Jewish members shocked and in tears over ‘betrayal’

Exclusive: Ireland may have breached football rules in Israel clash, says former FA chair

Mob vows to wear keffiyehs and confront ‘Zionists’ at Cable Street 90th anniversary event

Mamdani’s wife attended luxury Islamic ‘wellness’ retreat that called for elimination of Israel

Opinion

UEFA can no longer ignore anti-Israel discrimination on the football pitch

Since October 7, daily hatred is the new normal for British Jews

As head of counter-terrorism policing, I promise we will work tirelessly to keep British Jews safe

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NY Jewish groups highlight lack of focus on antizionist violence in Mamdani’s new antisemitism strategy

Flydubai pilot who ‘tried to bring down plane’ was a ‘terrorist or a whackjob,’ claims Trump

US Government sues Ohio healthcare firms after doctor fired ‘for being Jewish’

RAF Fairford suspected terror plot involved ‘a foreign actor’, claims Marco Rubio

World News

Austrian President criticised by Jewish groups, Jerusalem for anti-Israel statements

Flydubai pilot underwent ‘Islamist indoctrination,’ Netanyahu claims

Exclusive: Deradicalised curriculum for children in Gaza classes sows seeds of hope

‘Israel will win – we have no choice’: A message of defiance and veiled warning to Iran on the UN world stage

Toronto student groups to hold vigil ‘honouring martyrs’ on October 7 anniversary

Netanyahu: Too early to say whether Iran was involved in Flydubai attack

Must-have Chanukah Barbie sold out just days after launch

UK News

Two Iranians charged over suspected Yom Kippur terror plot targeting Manchester Jewish community

Exclusive: Salford City Council using a fifth of Jewish safety fund on street art

Former CIA chief warns Israel could cut intelligence ties with Britain over settlement sanctions

Labour ‘hell-bent’ on wrecking UK-Israel relations, Israeli officials claim

Opinion

Holocaust education is not working in the fight against contemporary antisemitism

When I saw Moscow Jews defying the KGB on Simchat Torah to proclaim: We are still here

Tracing Oxford’s hidden Jewish past along Deadman’s Walk

The fallout from October 7 has eclipsed our sense of religious mission

Sponsored

Tzedakah shouldn’t stop with us

Real university starter pack, no £600 kettle required

The world turns away. But Israel keeps contributing

Twenty years of expert employment and business support for the community

Life

JC Life’s guide to the best new books for children

New photos from the ghetto

Unlocking the V&A’s forgotten Jewish treasures

The Last First: Winter K2: ‘My Alpine whodunnit is a salutary tale for our time’

‘I lost my unborn child’s father on October 7’: Israeli widows reflect on motherhood and grief

JC recipes

Roasted squash and apple soup with crispy crumbs

Spicy baked orzo with feta and dill

Hearty chicken and rice soup

Apple and date crumble bars