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Sorin Hershko (in wheelchair) and other survivors of Entebbe at the Peres Center for the 50th anniversary (Itshik Biran)

Israel

Entebbe, 50 years on: IDF hero paralysed by bullet in raid relives operation he joined for an ‘interesting adventure’

By Deborah Danan

5 min read

Entebbe International Airport today (BADRU KATUMBA/AFP via Getty)

Israel

Entebbe, 50 years on: Aged six, I saw my mother trembling – she refused to lie and said the hijackers want to kill us

By Deborah Danan

5 min read

Travis Kelce kisses Taylor Swift during Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas, Nevada (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)

Adam Sandler

Mazel tov! Adam Sandler officiates at Taylor Swift’s wedding

Jewish funnyman tops bill at the showbiz nuptials of the year

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

Australia

Two arrested over mock drive-by shooting outside Sydney synagogue on Shabbat

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Iran

Iranian foreign minister sits down with Hamas, Hezbollah and Houthis at Ali Khamenei funeral

By JC Reporter

2 min read

(L-R) Abdelkader Amir Bousloub and Adam Bedoui (Met Police)

Courts

Two men who filmed antisemitic abuse of Jewish man for TikTok avoid jail

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Editor’s picks

Joy wins the day as Jewish bloc returns to Pride

My mum gave me up for adoption. A Llandudno doctor made sure I went to a Jewish home

Opinion: Why the Lancet study suggesting a far higher Gaza death toll is deeply flawed

76 years old, 10,000 feet up in the sky, £18,000 raised for charity

Pro-Palestine parents launch campaign against school antisemitism review

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Iran

US intelligence suggested Iran’s missiles could reach London in future, claims prominent Senator

Louisiana Republican John Kennedy suggested that the threat of attacks on Europe was a motivating factor in President Trump’s decision to go to war

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) on the This Past Weekend podcast with Theo Von (YouTube/TheoVon)

US Politics

Anti-Israel socialist who called October 7 ‘inevitable consequence of apartheid’ wins Colorado primary

Melat Kiros unseated 15-term incumbent Representative Diana DeGette to clinch the Democratic nomination for Denver

By Andrew Bernard

2 min read

Democratic congressional candidate Melat Kiros speaks to supporters at an election-night watch party after winning the Colorado primary on June 30, 2026 (Getty Images)

US Politics

House blocks vote on amendment to halt US-Israeli defence integration

There was also no debate on a separate bill aimed at heavily reducing US funding to the IDF

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Representative Thomas Massie gives his concession speech on May 19, 2026 in Hebron, Kentucky (Getty Images)

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’

James Carville said he supported the idea of ‘schism’ between the party’s ‘traditional Democrats and Democratic socialists’

By Ben Conway

2 min read

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

World news

Media

Now under-fire UK channel airs matzah blood libel - but Ofcom still insist ‘We can’t do anything’

By Mark Wood

4 min read

Nova

‘I thought, let’s rebuild the festival and show the world what happened’ – the story behind the Nova Exhibition

By Alma Green

7 min read

An image purporting to show Anastasiia Berezovska (Interpol)

Ukraine

Interpol hunt female suspect over Monaco bomb attack on Jewish tycoon

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

Pictured in 2024, the elusive new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei (Hamed JAFARNEJAD / ISNA / AFP via Getty)

Iran

Will Iran’s Supreme Leader finally come out of hiding for funeral of his father?

By Ali Hamedani

3 min read

The 'anti-Zionist' patrol seen marching through the streets of Thessaloniki (Image: Instagram)

Anti-Israel protests

‘Anti-Zionist patrols’ are sign of ‘new wave of fanaticism’, say Greek Jews

By JC Reporter

2 min read

Outgoing Unrwa Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini leaves after his final press conference at the UN offices in Geneva on March 31, 2026 (Getty Images)

Gaza Board of Peace

‘No place in the new Gaza’ for Unrwa says Board of Peace

By JC Reporter

2 min read

Art

Vincent Van Gogh's Hôpital Saint-Paul à Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, 1889 (Credit: Musée d’Orsay)

Grandson of Jewish art collector fights to reclaim Van Gogh lost during Nazi era

The painting comes from Van Gogh’s Saint-Rémy period, one of his most sought-after, and is likely worth tens of millions

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

Israel marks 1,000 days since October 7 with minute of silence to remember the fallen Will it be the Vance vision or Rubio rules that shapes the future of the Middle East?

UK News

Bob Vylan

Anti-Israel punk duo Bob Vylan suing BBC for libel over Glastonbury scandal coverage

The band’s frontman famously led a chant of ‘death to the IDF’ at the festival, which the former BBC director general labelled an ‘antisemitic broadcast’

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Bobby Vylan of Bob Vylan crowdsurfs in front of the West Holts stage during day four of Glastonbury festival 2025 at Worthy Farm, Pilton. (Getty Images)

Court and Crime

Pensioner handed life sentence for husband’s murder

Daryl Berman had claimed that David, her husband of almost 30 years, had accidentally fallen on the knife while carrying a lunch tray

By Ian Leonard

4 min read

Wimbledon

Pro-Palestine watermelon symbol does not meet threshold for disruption, says Wimbledon director

Turkish world number 51 Zeynep Sonmez added a vibration dampener in the shape of the symbol to her racket, accusing tournament organisers of enforcing double standards on political expressions by players

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Zeynep Sonmez of Turkey plays a backhand against Ekaterina Alexandrova during the Ladies' Singles third round match at Wimbledon 2025 (Getty Images)

Courts

Protesters accused over aerospace factory damage to face retrial next year

Prosecutors allege the defendants, who believed the business was involved in the supply chain to Israel, had no lawful excuse to act as they did

By JC Reporter

1 min read

A general view of Birmingham Crown Court on October 17, 2024 (Getty Images)

Opinion

It was a daring mission, even for the IDF: Entebbe 50 years on

Israel’s unmistakable message was that it would go to any lengths to protect the lives of its citizens and fellow Jews – and that the days of Jewish powerlessness were over

By David Harris

4 min read

Rescued Air France passengers wave to the waiting crowd as they disembark from an IDF Hercules aircraft at Ben Gurion Airport (Image: Government Press Office, Israel)

By Zoe Strimpel

Britain’s increasingly ‘Israel-frei’ cultural festivals

The space for Jewish artists, especially if they are Zionist, is shrinking all the time. Nowhere is that clearer than at Edinburgh

3 min read

By Nicholas Lezard

Using the ‘g-word’ about Israel is now a ubiquitous virtue signal

For pro-Palestine activists, the term ‘genocide’ has become a shibboleth: you have to say it or risk ostracism

3 min read

By Jonathan Boyd

We know too little about what reduces Jew-hatred. It’s urgent that we find out

What’s needed is a standing, cross-disciplinary team that brings together expertise in antisemitism and in a range of fields, from public policy and law to intelligence, theology, education and psychology

6 min read

By Evie Robinson

The Nova Exhibition answers the call to document and remember

It draws on many tools of memorialisation that might typically be found in a Holocaust-related museum – such as the tables full of shoes and clothing, seeking to individualise the victims

4 min read

By Sarah Tetteh

The ‘man with the golden ear’ who called me a ‘baby Whitney’

Clive Davis carried himself with the confidence of someone who had helped shape American popular culture. He had an aura about him, something I could not quite put my finger on

4 min read

By Amar Singh Bhandal

Ukraine – the country where soldiers queue to thank a rabbi

Russia’s Nazi slurs against Kyiv collapse on contact with reality. Here, Judaism means resistance and resilience – exactly what scares the Kremlin most

4 min read

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By Gina Benjamin

4 min read

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Bringing out the barbecue? Try Sharon Lurie’s best braai

By Sharon Lurie

3 min read

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The rise of super prime north London

By Mark Sumray

1 min read

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Three’s company for garden entertaining

By Anthea Gerrie

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Life

White bean and couscous salad with roasted red pepper dressing

By Katrina Meynink

Cook time: 30 mins

Ashkenazi food

Is this schnitzel a cut above the rest?

Tel Aviv’s hippest new restaurant sells just one thing: schnitzel for £22. It’s whipping up a media storm, but is it a must-visit this summer?

By Natalie Blenford

4 min read

Books

Stealing Hitler’s Rocket review: ‘The only problem may be that no one will believe it’

The extraordinary story of how the Polish underground sent the world’s first cruise missile to UK scientists is superbly reconstructed by Guy Walters

By Robert Low

3 min read

London's calling: V2 rocket arriving at Trafalgar Square, London, in 1945

Theatre

London theatre to be renamed after late playwright Sir Tom Stoppard

West End theatre, The Duke of York, to be renamed in honour of the Czech-born writer who became the most acclaimed British dramatist of his generation

By JC Reporter

2 min read

Sir Tom Stoppard, pictured in 2017, is to have a theatre named after him (Credit: PA)

Recipes

Broad bean and courgette shakshuka

This green twist on the classic egg dish is light, bright and summery

By Honey & Co

Cook time: 20-25 minutes

A fresh take on the classic shakshuka (Photo: Patricia Niven)

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

Entebbe, 50 years on: IDF hero paralysed by bullet in raid relives operation he joined for an ‘interesting adventure’

Entebbe, 50 years on: Aged six, I saw my mother trembling – she refused to lie and said the hijackers want to kill us

Mazel tov! Adam Sandler officiates at Taylor Swift’s wedding

Two arrested over mock drive-by shooting outside Sydney synagogue on Shabbat

Iranian foreign minister sits down with Hamas, Hezbollah and Houthis at Ali Khamenei funeral

Two men who filmed antisemitic abuse of Jewish man for TikTok avoid jail

Editor’s picks

Joy wins the day as Jewish bloc returns to Pride

My mum gave me up for adoption. A Llandudno doctor made sure I went to a Jewish home

Opinion: Why the Lancet study suggesting a far higher Gaza death toll is deeply flawed

76 years old, 10,000 feet up in the sky, £18,000 raised for charity

Pro-Palestine parents launch campaign against school antisemitism review

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US intelligence suggested Iran’s missiles could reach London in future, claims prominent Senator

Anti-Israel socialist who called October 7 ‘inevitable consequence of apartheid’ wins Colorado primary

House blocks vote on amendment to halt US-Israeli defence integration

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 news

Now under-fire UK channel airs matzah blood libel - but Ofcom still insist ‘We can’t do anything’

‘I thought, let’s rebuild the festival and show the world what happened’ – the story behind the Nova Exhibition

Interpol hunt female suspect over Monaco bomb attack on Jewish tycoon

Will Iran’s Supreme Leader finally come out of hiding for funeral of his father?

‘Anti-Zionist patrols’ are sign of ‘new wave of fanaticism’, say Greek Jews

‘No place in the new Gaza’ for Unrwa says Board of Peace

Grandson of Jewish art collector fights to reclaim Van Gogh lost during Nazi era

UK News

Anti-Israel punk duo Bob Vylan suing BBC for libel over Glastonbury scandal coverage

Pensioner handed life sentence for husband’s murder

Pro-Palestine watermelon symbol does not meet threshold for disruption, says Wimbledon director

Protesters accused over aerospace factory damage to face retrial next year

Opinion

It was a daring mission, even for the IDF: Entebbe 50 years on

Britain’s increasingly ‘Israel-frei’ cultural festivals

Using the ‘g-word’ about Israel is now a ubiquitous virtue signal

We know too little about what reduces Jew-hatred. It’s urgent that we find out

The Nova Exhibition answers the call to document and remember

The ‘man with the golden ear’ who called me a ‘baby Whitney’

Ukraine – the country where soldiers queue to thank a rabbi

Sponsored

Designs on your summer décor

Bringing out the barbecue? Try Sharon Lurie’s best braai

The rise of super prime north London

Three’s company for garden entertaining

Life

White bean and couscous salad with roasted red pepper dressing

Is this schnitzel a cut above the rest?

Stealing Hitler’s Rocket review: ‘The only problem may be that no one will believe it’

London theatre to be renamed after late playwright Sir Tom Stoppard

Broad bean and courgette shakshuka

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