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Letter from Jerusalem

Will Israel’s special relationship with the US survive fallout from two epochal elections?

By Natalie Lisbona

7 min read

Birmingham

Exclusive: Labour urged to come clean on ‘sectarian’ Israel boycott motion in Birmingham

National leadership faces questions after party’s councillors vote in favour of divestment policy

By Lorin Bell-Cross

4 min read

Auschwitz

Germany’s UN ambassador joins Israeli-led visit to Auschwitz for first time

By Hayley Cregor

2 min read

Movember

Cancer survivor turns cancer coach to help others with fallout of diagnosis

By Gaby Wine

5 min read

Ra'am leader Mansour Abbas MK attends a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset on July 8, 2026 (Flash90)

Israeli Politics

Abbas agrees to recognise Hamas as terror group in return for coalition spot

By Hayley Cregor

4 min read

Opinion

Stephen Pollard

Ed Miliband is so obsessed with condemning Israel that he cannot bring himself even to mention Hamas

Lorin Bell-Cross

I helped expose Birmingham’s Maccabi scandal – the city’s latest anti-Israel antics don’t surprise me

Alex Hearn

The backlash to the Bell Report is as shocking as its findings on antisemitism in schools

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US Politics

Who is Jon Ossoff, the Democrats' rising star who could be America's first Jewish president?

The Georgia senator boasts looks ‘like a Kennedy’ and a revered civil rights leader as a mentor, but has walked a political tightrope over criticism of Israel and the two-state solution

By Hayley Cregor

6 min read

US Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA) is greeted by supporters in Atlanta, Georgia, as he celebrates winning reelection in the US midterms on November 3, 2026 (Getty Images)

US Politics

US states threaten economic backlash over UK West Bank sanctions

British companies could be barred from winning government contracts and see overseas investment dry up

By Hayley Cregor

2 min read

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird speaks at the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 16, 2024 (Getty Images)

Iran

Iranian mastermind behind arson attacks on London Jews organised RAF airbase plot, US officials allege

Three men have been charged in the US with orchestrating a string of ‘Iran-backed terrorist plots’

By JC Reporter

2 min read

Armed police man road blocks around RAF Fairford on September 28, 2026 (Getty Images)

Iran

Downing Street insists British air bases are safe after US aircraft moved from RAF Mildenhall following ‘Iranian threat’

US President Trump had earlier said that the US-Israeli war with the Islamic Republic is ‘effectively over’

By JC Reporter

1 min read

US President Donald Trump speaks at a midterm campaign rally at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach, Florida on October 30, 2026. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images)

World News

‘Vile hatemonger’ Francesca Albanese accused of ‘hijacking’ words of Primo Levi to condemn Israel

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

The aftermath of a fire at Lewis' Continental Kitchen in Sydney in 2024 (Facebook/NSW Jewish Board of Deputies)

Australia

Ex-biker gang boss pleads guilty over Bondi kosher deli arson plot

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Morocco

Israel and Morocco deepen military cooperation with senior defence visit to Rabat

By Melanie Swan

1 min read

Save the Children

Save the Children UK refuses to adopt IHRA definition despite antisemitism review recommendations

By Jamie Shapiro

3 min read

Fire crews remove a Palestinian flag above the Reichstag in Berlin on November 8, 2026 (Instagram/PeacefullyAgainstGenocide)

Germany

Activists raise Palestinian flag over German Reichstag on eve of Kristallnacht anniversary

By Hayley Cregor

3 min read

Canada

Man jailed for shooting at Montreal Jewish school, leaving bullet holes in windows

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

A grenade launcher manufactured by IWI, which has struck a deal with Dutch defence company Artillerie Inrichtingen Armaments (Photo: IWI)

The Netherlands

Israeli defence firm to set up Netherlands arms factory

The deal comes despite diplomatic tensions between the two countries

By Melanie Swan

1 min read

UK News

‘Old fool’ Golders Green rabbi was ‘infatuated’ with young woman but did not grope her, defence claims

The jury is set to go out on Wednesday to consider allegations of sexual assault against Rabbi Chaim Halpern

By Simon Rocker

3 min read

Rabbi Aaron Halpern, also known as Chaim Halpern, outside Harrow Crown Court in Harrow, Middlesex, on November 3, 2026 (Jonathan Brady/Press Association)

Kristallnacht

‘I couldn’t understand it’: Kristallnacht eyewitness recalls ‘painful’ memories at commemoration service

Inge Gershfield recalled seeing people ‘laughing’ and ‘singing Nazi songs’ in front of a burning synagogue on her way to school on November 10, 1938

By JC Reporter

2 min read

Inge Gershfield during a service marking the 88th anniversary of Kristallnacht at Belsize Square Synagogue on November 10, 2026 (Press Association)

AJEX

Jewish ex-servicemen break 100-year Remembrance tradition in protest at Green-led Hackney Council

The Hackney branch of Ajex honoured the fallen separately rather than participate alongside representatives of the ‘scurrilous and racist’ Green Party

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

Green leader Zack Polansk congratulates Zoë Garbett as she is elected as Mayor for Hackney in May 2026 (Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Holocaust Educational Trust

Lady Victoria Starmer visits HET’s ‘Lessons from Auschwitz’ in first public engagement since leaving Downing Street

The wife of former Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has been a fierce champion of Holocaust education

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

Lady Victoria Starmer with Holocaust survivor Steven Frank BEM (Grainge Photography)

Opinion

Russell Brand’s conviction is an opportunity to challenge misuse of power wherever it occurs

When someone holds a position of influence, there is a greater fear of speaking out against them

By Sam Clifford

2 min read

By Hannah Galley

Zionism is not racism – the fact that we need to bring a motion to say so should alarm us all

As a councillor representing a large Jewish community, I have seen first-hand the fear caused by rising antisemitism. We cannot remain silent as the Green Party legitimises this hostility

3 min read

By Rabbi Hayim Leiter

Max Olesker is right about the conversion hurdles – but wrong to downplay antisemitism in the Guardian

The religious courts must do more to welcome those seeking to join the Jewish people, but describing this moment of murderous Jew-hatred as merely a “strange time” makes light of the situation

3 min read

By Gaby Wine

What Israel can teach us all about community building

While Israeli society might be riven by divisions, within it are people who are ‘doing community’ really well

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By Zack Ford

4 min read

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Delta sleep-inducing peptide (DSIP) in modern molecular science

By Zack Ford

4 min read

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Moving home in North London? Some things are worth doing properly

By Dennis Rogers

3 min read

Photo of a young woman working on a landscape project in her backyard.

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Tzedakah shouldn’t stop with us

By Anthony Broza

3 min read

Life

‘This Israel is a world away from the facile slogans of Green politicians and Palestine Action’

By David Herman

2 min read

Rachel Barry, Ashley Margolis and Beverley Klein star in Memoriam by Noga Flaishon (Charlie Flint)

Theatre

Memoriam review: technology and the Holocaust collide in Noga Flaishon’s family drama ★★★★

There is a lot to this debate over who can claim ownership over a family story without the sci-fi

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

Food

Duckweed: Inside the Israeli start-up using quantum farming to grow the ultimate superfood

The aquatic plant is at least 100 per cent more nutritious than broccoli and kale, according to the manufacturer

By Orlando Radice

2 min read

GreenOnyx's Wanna Greens served with cheese (TheJC)

Television

It Gets Worse review: You’ll laugh, a lot – when you don’t wince – at Gen Z comedy series ★★★★★

Cameos from the likes of Andrew Scott and Lena Dunham suggest the word is out about Leo Reich

By Ben Felsenburg

2 min read

It Gets Worse review: You’ll laugh, a lot – when you don’t wince – at Gen Z comedy series ★★★★★

Theatre

The Lives of Others review: Keira Knightley leads cast in taut Cold War thriller ★★★★

Directed by Robert Icke, Stephen Dillane also stars as Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler

By John Nathan

2 min read

The Lives of Others review: Keira Knightley leads cast in taut Cold War thriller ★★★★

JC recipes

Sivan’s Moroccan spiced fish patties/ balls

By Sivan Kobi

Cook time: 1 ½ hrs

Sivan Kobi's sheet pan bourekas (Photo: Sivan's Kitchen)

cheese recipe

Sivan’s sheet pan cheese bourekas

By Sivan Kobi

Cook time: 45 mins

Cake

Sivan’s six ingredient marble chiffon cake

By Sivan Kobi

Cook time: 1hr 20 mins

Vegan pad Thai noodles (Photo: Phil Bekker)

Vegan recipe

Pad Thai noodles with vegan chicken or tofu

By Philippa Kingsley

Cook time: 10 mins

The Jewish Chronicle

BBC Charter may be amended to protect against antisemitism, Director General suggests

Will Israel’s special relationship with the US survive fallout from two epochal elections?

Exclusive: Labour urged to come clean on ‘sectarian’ Israel boycott motion in Birmingham

Germany’s UN ambassador joins Israeli-led visit to Auschwitz for first time

Cancer survivor turns cancer coach to help others with fallout of diagnosis

Abbas agrees to recognise Hamas as terror group in return for coalition spot

Opinion

Ed Miliband is so obsessed with condemning Israel that he cannot bring himself even to mention Hamas

I helped expose Birmingham’s Maccabi scandal – the city’s latest anti-Israel antics don’t surprise me

The backlash to the Bell Report is as shocking as its findings on antisemitism in schools

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Who is Jon Ossoff, the Democrats' rising star who could be America's first Jewish president?

US states threaten economic backlash over UK West Bank sanctions

Iranian mastermind behind arson attacks on London Jews organised RAF airbase plot, US officials allege

Downing Street insists British air bases are safe after US aircraft moved from RAF Mildenhall following ‘Iranian threat’

World News

‘Vile hatemonger’ Francesca Albanese accused of ‘hijacking’ words of Primo Levi to condemn Israel

Ex-biker gang boss pleads guilty over Bondi kosher deli arson plot

Israel and Morocco deepen military cooperation with senior defence visit to Rabat

Save the Children UK refuses to adopt IHRA definition despite antisemitism review recommendations

Activists raise Palestinian flag over German Reichstag on eve of Kristallnacht anniversary

Man jailed for shooting at Montreal Jewish school, leaving bullet holes in windows

Israeli defence firm to set up Netherlands arms factory

UK News

‘Old fool’ Golders Green rabbi was ‘infatuated’ with young woman but did not grope her, defence claims

‘I couldn’t understand it’: Kristallnacht eyewitness recalls ‘painful’ memories at commemoration service

Jewish ex-servicemen break 100-year Remembrance tradition in protest at Green-led Hackney Council

Lady Victoria Starmer visits HET’s ‘Lessons from Auschwitz’ in first public engagement since leaving Downing Street

Opinion

Russell Brand’s conviction is an opportunity to challenge misuse of power wherever it occurs

Zionism is not racism – the fact that we need to bring a motion to say so should alarm us all

Max Olesker is right about the conversion hurdles – but wrong to downplay antisemitism in the Guardian

What Israel can teach us all about community building

Sponsored

CJC-1295, Ipamorelin, and GHRP-2: A Multi-Peptide Growth Hormone Signaling Strategy

Delta sleep-inducing peptide (DSIP) in modern molecular science

Moving home in North London? Some things are worth doing properly

Tzedakah shouldn’t stop with us

Life

‘This Israel is a world away from the facile slogans of Green politicians and Palestine Action’

Memoriam review: technology and the Holocaust collide in Noga Flaishon’s family drama ★★★★

Duckweed: Inside the Israeli start-up using quantum farming to grow the ultimate superfood

It Gets Worse review: You’ll laugh, a lot – when you don’t wince – at Gen Z comedy series ★★★★★

The Lives of Others review: Keira Knightley leads cast in taut Cold War thriller ★★★★

JC recipes

Sivan’s Moroccan spiced fish patties/ balls

Sivan’s sheet pan cheese bourekas

Sivan’s six ingredient marble chiffon cake

Pad Thai noodles with vegan chicken or tofu