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Police

Man, 19, charged after allegedly giving Nazi salute outside synagogue

By JC Reporter

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September 11

Opinion: Twenty-five years on, we have learnt nothing from 9/11 – we still allow Islamist hate to flourish

The attacks of 2001 changed everything, yet extremists continue to radicalise on campuses and preach in mosques, while terrorist supporters march through our streets

By Stephen Pollard

5 min read

Nigel Farage

Farage hints at reversing Labour’s Israel sanctions

By Lorin Bell-Cross

2 min read

Israeli 15-year-olds performed more poorly than in previous years, the results show (Photo, posed by models: Getty)

Education

Israeli teens achieve worst-ever score in international education ranking

By Melanie Swan

1 min read

Western Wall

Exclusive: Israeli Jews praying at the Western Wall not unlawful, government tells JC

By Lorin Bell-Cross

1 min read

Opinion

President Isaac Herzog

The sound of the shofar brings us together in reflection, pride, and renewed commitment to each other

Christian Cantor

I hope Britain alters its path with Israel in the New Year

Marc J Sievers

I had just returned from Saudi Arabia as a US diplomat when al-Qaeda struck. We must remember who did it

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Gaza

Huckabee: UK government’s ‘Jew hate’ knows no bounds

The US ambassador to Israel was responding to comments about Gaza made by Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, who is Jewish

By JC Reporter

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The US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee referred to the West Bank as 'Judea and Samaria' (Photo: Getty)

Athletics

Paralympian Ezra Frech announced for Dancing with the Stars season 35

Frech, who was born without a large part of his left leg, has been paired with season 30 winner Daniella Karagach

By Phoebe Black

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Ezra Frech and Daniella Karagach in promo images for 'Dancing with the Stars' season 35 (ABC)

IRGC

US to target BVI banks in bid to ‘asphyxiate’ secretive IRGC financing

The British Overseas Territory has long been a haven for illicit business dealings due to its loose financial declaration requirements

By Jacob Jaffa

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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks to reporters as he arrives for the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors' meeting in Asheville, North Carolina, on August 31, 2026 (Getty Images)

FBI

FBI seizes £560k in breakup of Hamas crypto funding and recruitment ring

The group’s supporters were financing its terrorist activities through encrypted group chats on the social media app Telegram

By Phoebe Black

1 min read

(Illustrative) A cryptocurrency store in Hong Kong on July 29, 2025 (Getty Images)

World News

Letter from Jerusalem

Dayan who was a Hasmonean old boy and is now helping rabbis to serve even the remotest communities

By Natalie Lisbona

6 min read

Yair Mazor as Boaz in Tell Me Everything (Picture credit: Ziv Berkovich)

Israel

Israeli 80s-set drama Tell Me Everything sweeps awards at nation’s Oscars

By Ella Bloom

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Foreign secretary Ed Miliband in Westminster (Credit: PA)

Iran

Iran greets Ed Miliband’s settlement sanctions as step towards ‘the end of Israel’

By Ali Hamedani

2 min read

Kurds

An independent Kurdistan would ‘sign Abraham Accords within ten minutes,’ says Kurdish political leader

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

IAEA Director General Rafael during a Board of Governors' Meeting at the agency's headquarters in Vienna, Austria, on September 07, 2026 (Getty Images)

Syria

Secret Syrian nuclear reactor on brink of creating atomic bomb materials when Israel destroyed it, UN admits

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

isis

Three arrested in France over alleged plan to join ISIS and commit ‘violent action’ against Jews

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

P!NK performs onstage during The 79th Annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, June 7, 2026 (Credit: Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions)

Pink

P!nk leads calls for Ed Sheeran to drop Macklemore from tour over ‘anti-Israel propaganda’

Boy George also took aim at the rapper following his onstage Gaza comments

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

UK News

Sanctions

Miliband’s sanctions will embolden the mob and we are afraid for our children, say British Jews at rally

Jewish protesters and allies spoke to the JC as they gathered outside Downing Street on Wednesday

By Jamie Shapiro

3 min read

The Downing Street protest was organised by Campaign Group Stop The Hate

World Suicide Prevention Day

Jami supporting Jewish secondary schools with suicide prevention education in RSHE classes

September 10 is World Suicide Prevention Day

By Ben Conway

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A pupil speaking to a Jami mental health practitioner (Photo: Blake Ezra Photography)

Hamas

Hamas greets Ed Miliband sanctions against Israel as ‘important steps in right direction’

Senior member of terror group’s political bureau welcomes intervention by UK but still insists measures are ‘insufficient’

By JC Reporter

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Basem Naim, Hamas political bureau senior member and former health minister (POZAN KOSE/AFP via Getty Images)

Books

London bookshop that sold Mein Kampf stocks book calling Jews ‘evil’ and promoting Protocols conspiracy

Aafaq Bookstore in Westminster, which is close to a synagogue, is selling a book that portrays Jews as inherently wicked and presents the antisemitic Protocols of the Elders of Zion as fact

By Daniel Ben-David

3 min read

The Afaq Bookstore (Credit: Google Earth)

Opinion

In the Temple, they blew the shofar on Shabbat – come see and hear it

Scroll & Stone, the site I created to tell the story of the Jewish people through 750 pieces, from the Merneptah Stele to Bevis Marks, has a new room: a reconstruction of the Beit Hamikdash in 50 CE

By Ashley Hirst

4 min read

The Scroll & Stone reconstruction of Herod’s Temple Mount and the city round it in the year 50 CE

By Angela Rayner

We will do everything to make sure you can live proudly, safely and free from fear

The Secretary of State for Communities pledges the government will tackle antisemitism wherever it is found as she sends New Year greetings

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By Jake Wallis Simons

Hamas congratulates Labour – exposing the moral bankruptcy of the government’s Israel policy

Can Andy Burnham look the families of the victims of October 7 in the eye and say he did the right thing? Can Ed Miliband, who presented himself so transparently in the Commons as ‘a proud British Jew’?

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By Richard Tice

Labour and the Greens are engaged in an anti-Israel ‘race to the bottom’

Reform UK’s deputy leader blasts the government’s settlement sanctions and rhetoric on the Jewish state

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Sponsored

Celebrating tradition, beauty and togetherness

By Danya Kay

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Global antisemitism continues to transform online Jewish dating

By JWed

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Sponsored

Nick Knowles fronts new campaign helping drivers understand their car finance complaint options

By Rhys Hughes

2 min read

Sponsored

As Hearing Care Changes, Independent Expert Advice Matters More Than Ever

By Pindrop Hearing Clinics

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Life

Just an Illusion review: ‘Are we French, Jewish or African?’★★★★

By John Nathan

2 min read

Environment

Nine practical (and not preachy) eco resolutions for Rosh Hashanah

From watching your water to greening your money, Siam Goorwich on how to be kinder to the planet in 5787

By Siam Goorwich

2 min read

Jewish food

The new cookbook celebrating the joy of Jewish desserts

After 20 years of writing about Yiddishe food, Leah Koenig has focused her attention on sweets. She tells Siam Goorwich about the recipes that bring flavour to her table

By Siam Goorwich

4 min read

Leah Koenig's new book is a celebration of Jewish desserts (Photto: copyright ©2026 by Nico Schinco)

Israel

‘I was shot in the chest by an Arab sniper – then I vowed: I’m going to get Israel fit’

Adam Ezekial on how being hit by a bullet inspired him to set up a fitness programme

By John Jeffay

5 min read

Bouncing back: Adam Ezekial working out in the gym. Inset: the X-ray showing the bullet in his chest (Photo: John Jeffay)

Family

Home for the holidays: will it be Norwich or London for Rosh Hashanah?

Growing up in a small community is very special – but will Jane Prinsley be heading east for Yom Tov?

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Nostalgia can include shopping trips to Top Shop

JC recipes

Challah

Rosh Hashanah apple, honey and cardamom challah

By Denise Phillips

Cook time: 30 minutes

Turkey recipe

Honey glazed stuffed turkey thigh with apple cider jus for Rosh Hashanah

By Sarah Mann-Yeager

Cook time: 1 hour 45 minutes approx

Victoria Prever's salted honey and date ice cream pie (Photo: Inbal Bar-Oz)

Rosh Hashanah recipe

Rosh Hashanah salted honey and date ice cream pie

By Victoria Prever

Cook time: 10 mins + 5+ hours freezing time

Meat recipe

Rosh Hashanah roast beef with pomegranate and red wine

By Silvia Nacamulli

Cook time: 45 minutes (medium); 1 hour (well done) plus 1 hour resting time

The Jewish Chronicle

Sydney Sweeney’s naked sports advert samples the Hatikvah

Man, 19, charged after allegedly giving Nazi salute outside synagogue

Opinion: Twenty-five years on, we have learnt nothing from 9/11 – we still allow Islamist hate to flourish

Farage hints at reversing Labour’s Israel sanctions

Israeli teens achieve worst-ever score in international education ranking

Exclusive: Israeli Jews praying at the Western Wall not unlawful, government tells JC

Opinion

The sound of the shofar brings us together in reflection, pride, and renewed commitment to each other

I hope Britain alters its path with Israel in the New Year

I had just returned from Saudi Arabia as a US diplomat when al-Qaeda struck. We must remember who did it

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Huckabee: UK government’s ‘Jew hate’ knows no bounds

Paralympian Ezra Frech announced for Dancing with the Stars season 35

US to target BVI banks in bid to ‘asphyxiate’ secretive IRGC financing

FBI seizes £560k in breakup of Hamas crypto funding and recruitment ring

World News

Dayan who was a Hasmonean old boy and is now helping rabbis to serve even the remotest communities

Israeli 80s-set drama Tell Me Everything sweeps awards at nation’s Oscars

Iran greets Ed Miliband’s settlement sanctions as step towards ‘the end of Israel’

An independent Kurdistan would ‘sign Abraham Accords within ten minutes,’ says Kurdish political leader

Secret Syrian nuclear reactor on brink of creating atomic bomb materials when Israel destroyed it, UN admits

Three arrested in France over alleged plan to join ISIS and commit ‘violent action’ against Jews

P!nk leads calls for Ed Sheeran to drop Macklemore from tour over ‘anti-Israel propaganda’

UK News

Miliband’s sanctions will embolden the mob and we are afraid for our children, say British Jews at rally

Jami supporting Jewish secondary schools with suicide prevention education in RSHE classes

Hamas greets Ed Miliband sanctions against Israel as ‘important steps in right direction’

London bookshop that sold Mein Kampf stocks book calling Jews ‘evil’ and promoting Protocols conspiracy

Opinion

In the Temple, they blew the shofar on Shabbat – come see and hear it

We will do everything to make sure you can live proudly, safely and free from fear

Hamas congratulates Labour – exposing the moral bankruptcy of the government’s Israel policy

Labour and the Greens are engaged in an anti-Israel ‘race to the bottom’

Sponsored

Celebrating tradition, beauty and togetherness

Global antisemitism continues to transform online Jewish dating

Nick Knowles fronts new campaign helping drivers understand their car finance complaint options

As Hearing Care Changes, Independent Expert Advice Matters More Than Ever

Life

Just an Illusion review: ‘Are we French, Jewish or African?’★★★★

Nine practical (and not preachy) eco resolutions for Rosh Hashanah

The new cookbook celebrating the joy of Jewish desserts

‘I was shot in the chest by an Arab sniper – then I vowed: I’m going to get Israel fit’

Home for the holidays: will it be Norwich or London for Rosh Hashanah?

JC recipes

Rosh Hashanah apple, honey and cardamom challah

Honey glazed stuffed turkey thigh with apple cider jus for Rosh Hashanah

Rosh Hashanah salted honey and date ice cream pie

Rosh Hashanah roast beef with pomegranate and red wine