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Attorney General Lord Hermer (Image: Getty)

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Newly elected Young Greens' co-chairs Jo Dowbor and Cyn Muthoni (Photo: Instagram)

Green Party

Young Greens elect antizionist leaders and drop IHRA antisemitism definition

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

The entrance to London Luton Airport (Photo by Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)

Airlines

Aviation authority investigates series of ‘accidents’ involving Israir planes at Luton Airport

The Israeli airline has reported several incidents including a collision between a towing vehicle and a jet last week, leaving passengers stranded

By Mark Wood

1 min read

Qatar

Qatar ‘in secret talks’ to secure release of Jewish prisoners held by Iran

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

Israel

Israeli ministers join settler activists on march through ‘closed military zone’ near Gaza border

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Israel's Peter Paltchik reacts after beating Switzerland's Daniel Eich in the judo men's 100kg bronze medal bout of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games (photo: Luis Robayo / AFP via Getty Images)

Zaka

Israeli Olympic medallist judoka auctioning match-worn gi to fund PTSD treatment for disaster response teams

By Ben Conway

1 min read

Editor’s picks

She’s Jewish, the best female chess player of all time – and could be Hungary’s next president

Israeli scientists find parents smoking outside increase risk of nicotine addiction in children

Karim Khan sex abuse accuser denies being part of Mossad

Herzog sends best wishes to Spanish people over World Cup victory

Tishah b’Av: from the heart of darkness to defiant hope

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Maccabiah Games

Maccabiah Games: ‘There’s no one more surprised than me’, says GB double medallist

Tennis players Sarah Schechter and Samantha Cohen were jointly responsible for GB’s haul of three medals

By Ben Conway

5 min read

Left to right: silver medallist Samantha Cohen, general team manager Andrew Myers, gold and bronze medallist Sarah Schechter (photo: Alex Mandel)

Benjamin Netanyahu

Netanyahu to travel to Washington for Graham funeral as US-Iran conflict escalates

The prime minister is expected to present President Trump with Israeli intelligence regarding the Islamic Republic during the trip

By Melanie Swan

1 min read

US President Trump shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu during a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago club on December 29, 2025 (Getty Images)

Culture

Head of PEN condemns article highlighting discrimination against Jews and Israelis

The president of America’s top body defending freedom of expression resigned in protest over the piece

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Dinaw Mengestu has resigned from a group that defends freedom of speech in the arts and journalism over the piece (Photo: Getty)

FBI

FBI investigating hate crime after ‘arson attack’ on Zionsville home displaying Israeli flag

A blaze at the property in the small Indiana town caused more than $150,000 in damage

By JC Reporter

1 min read

A property in Zionsville, Indiana, damaged in an alleged arson attack on July 10, 2026 (X/MikePence)

World news

Historian and former US antisemitism tsar Deborah Lipstadt (Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty)

United Nations

United Nations ‘failing Jewish people greatly’ says former antisemitism tsar Deborah Lipstadt

By Natalie Lisbona

3 min read

Yahya Sinwar, leader of Hamas, had made detailed plans of both physical and psychological attacks on Israel (Photo: Getty)

October 7

Sinwar had planned to attack 220 sites, newly released documents reveal

By JC Reporter

2 min read

Australia

Australian university head apologises over encampments

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Iran

US strikes Iranian targets after soldiers killed in Jordan

By JCReporter

2 min read

Iran

Dissidents in Iran condemn JD Vance for failing to back opposition to regime

By Ali Hamedani

4 min read

Sanctions

Sanctioned Iranian businessman owns luxury flats minutes from London synagogue and Buckingham Palace

By Jane Prinsley

1 min read

President Herzog

Israeli President Isaac Herzog during an interview with Al-Arabiya on July 16, 2026 (YouTube/AlArabiyaEnglish)

Herzog: ‘I dream of peace with Saudi’

The Israeli president also said that his ‘heart aches’ for Palestinian civilians caught up in the Gaza War

By JC Reporter

2 min read

UN rebukes Hamas for raiding humanitarian aid warehouse ‘Relief and disbelief’: Gibraltar claims first ever Maccabiah medal

UK News

Church of England

Bishop warns that Synod vote will stoke antisemitism

The Bishop of Blackburn says the vote to ‘hear’ a controversial document written by Palestinian Christians will make dialogue more difficult

By JC Reporter

2 min read

Church of England Synod considering the Kairos Palestine motion in July 2026

Maccabi Tel Aviv

Police chief who presided over Maccabi-Villa scandal walked away from job with almost £60,000

Craig Guildford stepped down after ‘damning’ report into his force’s handling of the ‘Israeli fan ban’ match

By Mark Wood

4 min read

Chief Constable Craig Guildford of West Midlands Police (Parliament TV)

Charity Commission

London mosque already under Charity Commission scrutiny released sermon blaming ‘all evil’ in Muslim world on Jews

Egyptian cleric who delivered the rant had also allegedly said elsewhere, ‘the final war will begin in which we will kill every Jew’

By Daniel Ben-David

4 min read

London mosque already under Charity Commission scrutiny released sermon blaming ‘all evil’ in Muslim world on Jews

House of Lords

Three new Jewish peers announced as Prime Minister takes his leave

Cathy Ashley, Saul Lehrfreund and Sir Brian Leveson have been given seats in the Lords

By Simon Rocker

1 min read

Jewish human rights lawyer and activist Saul Lehrfreund

Opinion

Synod’s Kairos II is not a difficult truth about Israel but a defamatory manifesto

The objection is not that the Church of England listened to Palestinian Christians but that it chose to do so through one of the most extreme documents produced in recent years – one that portrays the Jewish state as inherently genocidal and racist

By The JC Leader

3 min read

General Synod July 14, 2026 (Image: Church of England, YouTube)

Why I backed the Kairos motion – without wavering in my support for Israel to live in peace and security

The Church can engage critically with the document while remaining uncompromising in its opposition to antisemitism and steadfast in its commitment to Christian–Jewish friendship

4 min read

By Bishop Philip North

The Church of England’s ill-worded Kairos II motion heightened Jewish fears – and I deeply regret it

We must make clear that to ‘hear’ is not to ‘accept’, still less to justify language that contravenes the IHRA antisemitism definition. Above all, we must now reflect afresh and listen attentively to a wider range of voices

4 min read

By Ashley Perry

Why Jerusalem is increasingly wary of Erdoğan’s Turkey

The language emanating from Ankara increasingly resembles that heard in Tehran. The difference is that it is backed by a far bigger economy, NATO's second-largest army, and expanding influence across the region

4 min read

By Gary Cohen

Burnham compromised himself and his party by pandering to the antizionist crowd

Appeasing the haters won’t work and will only fuel the growing sectarian politics with which this country is already struggling. This is not leadership, and Britain will pay dearly for it

7 min read

By Rabbi Mendel Kalmenson

The Rebbe always played offence – where others counted losses, he counted possibilities

Football, like life, is played as much in the mind as on the field: when you stop playing to win, you start playing not to lose. Judaism asks us not merely to survive, but to flourish

4 min read

By David May and Simone Rodan-Benzaquen

Dublin’s ban on trade with Israeli settlements is a gigantic own goal

It won’t change Jerusalem’s policy, may cost Palestinians their jobs, further isolate Ireland's small Jewish community and provoke US sanctions. Apart from that, it is a fine piece of legislation

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By Gina Benjamin

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By Sharon Lurie

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The rise of super prime north London

By Mark Sumray

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Life

Keeping it cool in cosmopolitan Marseille

By Gaby Koppel

5 min read

Ofir Shaham (second from left) with teammates celebrating their Olympic silver medals in the rhythmic gymnastics all around event at the 2024 Games in Paris (photo: Jamie Squire / Getty Images)

Paris Olympics 2024

‘After every competition, I gave my medal to my mother’, says Israeli Olympic medallist

Rhythmic gymnast Ofir Shaham shares the sacrifices and dreams which culminated in Parisian glory two years ago

By Ben Conway

2 min read

Jewish self-defence

We are loud and proud because we need to be

Stop the Hate was set up in the wake of October 7. The mission? To ensure that every anti-Israel demonstration in the UK would be accompanied by a noisy Zionist counter-protest

By Nicole Lampert

9 min read

Bold as brass: Stop the Hate co-founder Itai Galmudy Photo: Elliot Franks

breast cancer

How my breast cancer led me to the Nova exhibition

Hayley Gullen has written a graphic novel about her illness and published a series of cartoons about October 7

By Hilary Freeman

5 min read

A picture is worth a thousand words: Hayley Gullen and her cartoons about the Nova exhibition

Dementia

Inside the unique Jewish congregation inspiring churches and mosques

What I learnt at a joyful dementia service at my synagogue

By Naomi Greenaway

4 min read

Stars aligned: a father and son worshipping at shul

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

By Jake Cohen

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

Sir Keir Starmer’s attorney general Lord Hermer out of Andy Burnham’s new government

Young Greens elect antizionist leaders and drop IHRA antisemitism definition

Aviation authority investigates series of ‘accidents’ involving Israir planes at Luton Airport

Qatar ‘in secret talks’ to secure release of Jewish prisoners held by Iran

Israeli ministers join settler activists on march through ‘closed military zone’ near Gaza border

Israeli Olympic medallist judoka auctioning match-worn gi to fund PTSD treatment for disaster response teams

Editor’s picks

She’s Jewish, the best female chess player of all time – and could be Hungary’s next president

Israeli scientists find parents smoking outside increase risk of nicotine addiction in children

Karim Khan sex abuse accuser denies being part of Mossad

Herzog sends best wishes to Spanish people over World Cup victory

Tishah b’Av: from the heart of darkness to defiant hope

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Maccabiah Games: ‘There’s no one more surprised than me’, says GB double medallist

Netanyahu to travel to Washington for Graham funeral as US-Iran conflict escalates

Head of PEN condemns article highlighting discrimination against Jews and Israelis

FBI investigating hate crime after ‘arson attack’ on Zionsville home displaying Israeli flag

World news

United Nations ‘failing Jewish people greatly’ says former antisemitism tsar Deborah Lipstadt

Sinwar had planned to attack 220 sites, newly released documents reveal

Australian university head apologises over encampments

US strikes Iranian targets after soldiers killed in Jordan

Dissidents in Iran condemn JD Vance for failing to back opposition to regime

Sanctioned Iranian businessman owns luxury flats minutes from London synagogue and Buckingham Palace

Herzog: ‘I dream of peace with Saudi’

UK News

Bishop warns that Synod vote will stoke antisemitism

Police chief who presided over Maccabi-Villa scandal walked away from job with almost £60,000

London mosque already under Charity Commission scrutiny released sermon blaming ‘all evil’ in Muslim world on Jews

Three new Jewish peers announced as Prime Minister takes his leave

Opinion

Synod’s Kairos II is not a difficult truth about Israel but a defamatory manifesto

Why I backed the Kairos motion – without wavering in my support for Israel to live in peace and security

The Church of England’s ill-worded Kairos II motion heightened Jewish fears – and I deeply regret it

Why Jerusalem is increasingly wary of Erdoğan’s Turkey

Burnham compromised himself and his party by pandering to the antizionist crowd

The Rebbe always played offence – where others counted losses, he counted possibilities

Dublin’s ban on trade with Israeli settlements is a gigantic own goal

Sponsored

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

Designs on your summer décor

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

The rise of super prime north London

Life

Keeping it cool in cosmopolitan Marseille

‘After every competition, I gave my medal to my mother’, says Israeli Olympic medallist

We are loud and proud because we need to be

How my breast cancer led me to the Nova exhibition

Inside the unique Jewish congregation inspiring churches and mosques

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