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ISRAEL AT WAR

Netanyahu posts second video debunking viral death hoax spread by pro-Iran accounts

The prime minister took a camera crew on his morning coffee run after conspiracy theories that he had been killed in an airstrike went viral on social media

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

A still from a video posted by Prime Minister Netanyahu in response to claims pushed by pro-Iran social media accounts that he had been killed (X/Benjamin Netanyahu)

IDF planning ‘at least’ three more weeks of Iran strikes

Army spokesman Brigadier General Effie Defrin confirmed that officials have ‘deeper plans’ for the war beyond the Pesach holiday

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Smoke and fire rise from the site of airstrikes at Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran on March 7, 2026 (Getty Images)

IDF begins ‘targeted ground operation’ in Lebanon

Defence Minister Israel Katz suggested last week that Israel could seize territory in the southern part of the country until Hezbollah is defeated

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

An Israeli artillery unit fires towards Southern Lebanon from a position on the Israeli side of the border on March 15, 2026 (Getty Images)

By Jake Wallis Simons

The UK’s Iran policy is stuck in appeasement

The sight of Foreign Office officials celebrating the Islamic Republic’s revolution at its London embassy – alongside Britain’s failure to proscribe the IRGC – reveals a dangerous softness towards Tehran

4 min read

Al Quds Day rally on March 15, 2026 in London (Image: Getty)

Protesters is pictured demonstrating outside a university campus in 2024 (Photo: Getty)

Education

One in five UK students ‘reluctant’ to flatshare with a Jew

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

Demonstrators take part in a Chanukah candle-lighting event in London in honour of victims of the mass shooting at a Jewish gathering in Australia in December (Photo: Getty)

Crime

Anti-Jewish hate crimes ‘half as likely to be prosecuted’ as those against Muslims

By Jane Prinsley

4 min read

Kemi Badenoch

Badenoch: Starmer’s Iran stance is appeasement of ‘sectarian’ vote

The Conservative Party leader added: ‘we should be looking after the British national interest, not particular constituency interest’

By Lorin Bell-Cross

4 min read

A suite in Le Grand Mazarin (Vincent Leroux)

Paris

A perfect Paris escape in the Marais

By Jane Prinsley

5 min read

Norway

Manhunt under way in Norway after suspects flee police stop-and-search near shul

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Fight to preserve yeshivah status quo could go to the courts

By Simon Rocker

2 min read

Badenoch says ‘disgusting’ Guardian column on Gail’s was ‘yet another cover for antisemitism’

‘I have learnt that no one is immune to mental health struggles’

The Claudia Winkleman Show review: ‘has the sense of a Friday night fixture’ ★★★

Yentl review: ‘Isaac Bashevis Singer would be pleased’ ★★★★

Pesach pine nut, almond and lemon cake

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USA

Brother of Michigan synagogue attacker was Hezbollah commander, IDF says

Ibrahim Ghazali had managed weapons operations for a Hezbollah unit, according to the Israeli military

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

Law enforcement vehicles parked outside Temple Israel in Michigan (Image: Getty Images)

The Oscars

Mr Nobody Against Putin: Producer Lucie Kon ‘absolutely thrilled’ to win best documentary Oscar

Kon was the executive producer for the film, which chronicles a teacher’s quiet resistance against Russian state propaganda

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

Lucie Kon, pictured with the best documentary Oscar her team won for 'Mr Nobody Against Putin' (Photo: Instagram/@imluciek)

The Oscars

Oscars security ramped up after FBI warns of potential ‘surprise attack’ from Iran

Snipers, sniffer dogs, and Swat teams have been drafted in to protect Hollywood’s stars

By Ben Conway

1 min read

Workers put up an Oscar statue at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California, ahead of the 98th annual Academy Awards ceremony (Photo: Getty)

USA

Michigan Jews will continue to live ‘vibrant Jewish lives’ as synagogue attacker identified

Ayman Ghazali, 41, had been living in the US since 2011

By Jamie Shapiro

3 min read

Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield, Michigan, a Detroit suburb, pictured after an assailant drove a vehicle into the building (Photo: Getty)

World news

France

Brothers arrested over ‘deadly and antisemitic’ French terror plot

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Security around Jewish institutions in Amsterdam has been stepped up after an explosion occurred outside a school in the early hours of Saturday morning (Photo: Getty)

The Netherlands

Amsterdam Jewish school explosion highlights Netherlands’ ‘antisemitism epidemic’

By Ben Conway

2 min read

Chaled Grifat, in Zarzir, Israel, leaves his home after collecting personal belongings following an Iranian ballistic missile strike on March 13 2026 (Photo: Getty)

Israel Iran War

Iran targets Israel with seven ballistic missile salvos overnight

By Katie Grant

1 min read

Croatia

Sa’ar brands Croatian president’s ‘Israeli infections’ jibe ‘hate-filled’ rhetoric

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

Exterior view of the Peace Palace, home to the International Court of Justice, in The Hague, Netherlands (Getty Images)

Israel

Iceland and the Netherlands join South Africa’s ICJ genocide case against Israel

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

France

Killer of Sarah Halimi arrested over violent robbery

By Shirli Sitbon

1 min read

India

The Indian princess who rescued Jews from the Holocaust

A pendant in a London exhibition sheds new light on the humanity of Catherine Duleep Singh

By Mark Wood

2 min read

Iranians need ‘external assistance’ to topple regime, says Sa’ar UN Security Council calls on Iran to halt strikes against Gulf states

UK News

King's College London

King’s College London opens probe after keffiyeh-clad student posts ‘antisemitic’ video targeting professors

KCL said it was appalled to learn of the ‘intimidatory’ video

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

An alleged KCL student in a keffiyeh appears in a video posted by 'KCL Stands For Justice' (Credit: Instagram)

Claudia Winkleman

Will Claudia Winkleman be our new chat show queen?

The Jewish TV presenter has a new Friday-night show on BBC One – and it kicks off tonight with Jeff Goldblum

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

The Claudia Winkleman Show (Image: BBC One)

Iran

Lord Blunkett looks back to lessons after 9/11 in calling for clampdown on Iran influence in UK

Former Home Secretary urges Britain to overcome “historical reluctance” to confront extremism

By Jane Prinsley

4 min read

David Blunkett delivers a speech in 2011 (Getty Images)

Sanctions

Impose Russia-style sanctions on Iran to stop UK being haven for ‘blood money’, government urged

Call to widen measures against Islamic Republic comes after new Supreme Leader revealed to hold £100m London property empire

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

Mojtaba Khamenei (centre), new Supreme Leader after death of his father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (Rouzbeh Fouladi / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)

Opinion

The Met chief’s false equivalence between Iran regime backers and opponents

Sir Mark Rowley’s dismissal of ideology in assessing the threat around Al Quds Day reveals a serious analytical failure that risks weakening effective policing and public security

By Gill Levy

4 min read

By Jamie O'Mahony

Ireland risks US relationship over its anti-Israel obsession

Just as the Taoiseach travels to the White House, his deputy announces that legislation to ban imports from settlements would soon be ready – a move Washington strongly opposes

3 min read

By Melissa Langsam Braunstein

For Democrats, attacking Israel is a career move

California Governor Newsom has clearly concluded that moving left on the Jewish state is crucial for winning his party’s base – and he’s not alone

3 min read

By Simone Rodan-Benzaquen

Iran’s war across Europe –complacency must finally end

The diplomatic leverage that once gave the Islamic Republic reason to calibrate – to keep its plots below the threshold of open confrontation – no longer applies

6 min read

By Marnie Riches

No Jews, no news: why the glitterati ignored Iran’s slaughtered protesters

Of course they’d keep shtum! And given their reverence for Hamas’ “resistance” efforts, they were hardly going to celebrate when Hamas’ paymaster was killed

3 min read

By Maureen Lipman

He sat there, staring into space, worrying about his brothers in arms

‘Sometimes,’ our soldier wryly remarked, ‘the solution comes to you before the problem.’ So, you might say Esther, the solution, was already there before the problem evolved

4 min read

By Melanie Phillips

Krav Maga for the Jewish mind: how to confront antisemitism

My new book offers tools to fight back against the hate – and, more importantly, the confidence that people can do so

3 min read

Life

At home with the Kallins

By Elisa Bray

3 min read

Pogrom aftermath: burnt-out festival goers' cars at Nova festival site after the massacre

Books

A useful handbook on the Israel-Palestine deadlock...until it turns to Netanyahu

Colin Shindler’s historical guide is erudite and concise but perhaps guilty of wishful thinking when it describes a Tel Aviv rally as Bibi’s ‘Ceaușescu moment’

By Robert Low

3 min read

whisky

The REAL difference between Orthodox and Progressive Jews? Whisky

My Shabbat shot must be a Scotch – and I will never forget the time it was sickly sweet grape juice

By Simon Rocker

2 min read

Kiddush club: the whiskiest of Jewish encounters

Conversion

My journey from non-Jewish atheist to Orthodox Jew

A Californian journalist on how she went from depressed and lonely teen to happy sheitel-wearing wife and mother – and how her husband accompanied her

By Hilary Freeman

6 min read

It was meant to be: the Lobells on their wedding day

Jewish theatre

The Yentl I play does not identify as male or female

The star of a new production of the shtetl tale on why she sees the protagonist as non-binary

By John Nathan

4 min read

Cornish-born, Jewish recipe developer and food photographer Trevennon Dakota-Levy (Picture: Trevennon Dakota-Levy)

Jewish food

‘As a boy I didn’t know bagels were Jewish! Now I make the best challah’

By Alma Green

4 min read

Bolo de Amêndoa is a flourless Portuguese cake, which is perfect for Pesach (Picture: Trevennon Dakota-Levy)

Passover bakes

Bolo de Amêndoa – Portuguese almond cake

By Trevennon Dakota-Levy

Cook time: 35 minutes

Dessert

Muriel's bread pudding

By Trevennon Dakota-Levy

Cook time: 75 – 90 minutes

Passover bakes

Perfect Pesach brunch bagels

By Nir Elkayam

The Jewish Chronicle

Netanyahu posts second video debunking viral death hoax spread by pro-Iran accounts

IDF planning ‘at least’ three more weeks of Iran strikes

IDF begins ‘targeted ground operation’ in Lebanon

The UK’s Iran policy is stuck in appeasement

One in five UK students ‘reluctant’ to flatshare with a Jew

Anti-Jewish hate crimes ‘half as likely to be prosecuted’ as those against Muslims

Badenoch: Starmer’s Iran stance is appeasement of ‘sectarian’ vote

A perfect Paris escape in the Marais

Manhunt under way in Norway after suspects flee police stop-and-search near shul

Fight to preserve yeshivah status quo could go to the courts

Editor's Picks

Badenoch says ‘disgusting’ Guardian column on Gail’s was ‘yet another cover for antisemitism’

‘I have learnt that no one is immune to mental health struggles’

The Claudia Winkleman Show review: ‘has the sense of a Friday night fixture’ ★★★

Yentl review: ‘Isaac Bashevis Singer would be pleased’ ★★★★

Pesach pine nut, almond and lemon cake

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Brother of Michigan synagogue attacker was Hezbollah commander, IDF says

Mr Nobody Against Putin: Producer Lucie Kon ‘absolutely thrilled’ to win best documentary Oscar

Oscars security ramped up after FBI warns of potential ‘surprise attack’ from Iran

Michigan Jews will continue to live ‘vibrant Jewish lives’ as synagogue attacker identified

World news

Brothers arrested over ‘deadly and antisemitic’ French terror plot

Amsterdam Jewish school explosion highlights Netherlands’ ‘antisemitism epidemic’

Iran targets Israel with seven ballistic missile salvos overnight

Sa’ar brands Croatian president’s ‘Israeli infections’ jibe ‘hate-filled’ rhetoric

Iceland and the Netherlands join South Africa’s ICJ genocide case against Israel

Killer of Sarah Halimi arrested over violent robbery

The Indian princess who rescued Jews from the Holocaust

UK News

King’s College London opens probe after keffiyeh-clad student posts ‘antisemitic’ video targeting professors

Will Claudia Winkleman be our new chat show queen?

Lord Blunkett looks back to lessons after 9/11 in calling for clampdown on Iran influence in UK

Impose Russia-style sanctions on Iran to stop UK being haven for ‘blood money’, government urged

Opinion

The Met chief’s false equivalence between Iran regime backers and opponents

Ireland risks US relationship over its anti-Israel obsession

For Democrats, attacking Israel is a career move

Iran’s war across Europe –complacency must finally end

No Jews, no news: why the glitterati ignored Iran’s slaughtered protesters

He sat there, staring into space, worrying about his brothers in arms

Krav Maga for the Jewish mind: how to confront antisemitism

Life

At home with the Kallins

A useful handbook on the Israel-Palestine deadlock...until it turns to Netanyahu

The REAL difference between Orthodox and Progressive Jews? Whisky

My journey from non-Jewish atheist to Orthodox Jew

The Yentl I play does not identify as male or female

‘As a boy I didn’t know bagels were Jewish! Now I make the best challah’

Bolo de Amêndoa – Portuguese almond cake

Muriel's bread pudding

Perfect Pesach brunch bagels