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ISRAEL AT WAR

Iran can no longer enrich uranium or produce ballistic missiles, claims Netanyahu

The prime minister also took aim at the ‘fake news’ that Israel forced the US into conflict with the Islamic Republic

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

Prime Minister Netanyahu gives a press conference on March 19, 2026 (Getty Images)

Alleged Iran spies targeted Britain’s oldest synagogue for surveillance, court told

The pair are also accused of spying on a woman living in the UK who was allegedly a Mossad agent

By Tristan Kirk

1 min read

The office building of Westminster Magistrates Court in London (Getty Images)

Newlywed Thai worker who came to Israel ‘with hope to make a good life’ killed by Iranian cluster bomb

Chaiwat Vallnil, 34, was from the Chaiyaphum Province in the north east of Thailand

By Ben Conway

1 min read

By Gary Cohen

The convenient fiction that hides Iran’s hand and pins chaos on Israel

A narrative that obscures what is truly fuelling war in the Middle East betrays a willingness to legitimise almost anything so long as it is directed at the Jews

6 min read

Smoke rises from the port of Jebel Ali following a reported Iranian strike in Dubai on March 1, 2026. (Image: Getty)

By Lorin Bell-Cross

Drive to reclaim Gaza vote may lie behind Labour calls for Nick Timothy’s sacking

4 min read

Inside Temple Israel Synagogue after the attack (Image: Emily Elconin)

USA

New photos reveal destruction inside Temple Israel shul after Michigan terror attack

By Ben Conway

3 min read

Scotland

Iranian man arrested trying to enter British nuclear submarine base

The man, and a woman of unknown nationality, were reportedly detained while ‘acting suspiciously’ outside the MoD site in Scotland

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Liron Velleman (USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive)

Court and Crime

Former Labour councillor convicted of child sex offences spared jail

By Tristan Kirk

3 min read

Masorti

New rabbi to take the helm at South Herts and Edgware Masorti

By Alma Green

1 min read

How long will I live? How long is a piece of string?

breast cancer

Why I won’t take a test to see if my breast cancer will return

By Karen E H Skinazi

3 min read

‘A hug and I knew I was safe’: Noa Argamani recalls her rescue by the IDF after 246 days in captivity

Tucker Carlson calls pro-Hitler Oswald Mosley one of Britain’s ‘great war heroes’

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

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

New tools to help Israelis deal with the stress of war

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Iran

Trump distances US from Israeli strikes on Iranian gas field

The president said there would be ‘no more attacks’ on the South Pars site unless Iran launched further aggression towards Qatar

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

US President Trump speaks to members of the media traveling on Air Force One en route to Miami on March 7, 2026 (Getty Images)

Basketball

Israeli trio makes NBA history in Portland-Brooklyn game

The fixture featured All-Star Deni Avdija and two rookies from the Brooklyn Nets, marking the first time three Israeli athletes have shared an NBA court

By Ben Conway

3 min read

(L-R) Danny Wolf, Ben Saraf and Deni Avdija

Iran

Trump labels BBC coverage of Iran War ‘corrupt and fraudulent’

The president, who is suing the corporation over a separate complaint about its coverage of the 2020 election, called the tone of its reporting on the conflict ‘unbelievable’

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

US President Trump speaks to members of the media aboard Air Force One on March 15, 2026 (Getty Images)

Terrorist attack

After the Temple Israel attack, Detroit’s Jewish community stands unbowed

Emotional whiplash – terror followed by relief – has defined the response

By Melissa Langsam Braunstein

2 min read

Police at the Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield, Michigan after an assailant drove a vehicle into the building on March 12 (Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY / AFP via Getty Images)

World news

A smoke plume rises from a fire near Dubai International Airport following an Iranian strike on March 16, 2026 (Getty Images)

UAE

UAE shuts down ‘Iran-backed terror network’ after Gulf strikes

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Joseph Kent, December 11, 2025 (Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

America

FBI investigating ex-counterterror chief Joe Kent over alleged leak

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

A still from the footage in the aftermath of the strike showing the Tikva offices ablaze

Russia Ukraine War

Russian suicide drone strikes Great Choral Synagogue in Odesa

By Ben Conway

2 min read

Iran

Arab states request emergency UN Human Rights Council debate on Iran’s ‘military aggression’

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

Qatar Energy's operating facilities in Ras Laffan Industrial City, pictured on March 3, 2026 (Getty Images)

Iran

Qatar declares Iranian embassy staff ‘persona non grate’ after gas facility strike

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Targeted: Shaarei Shomayim shul and, right, damage to other shuls in Toronto

Canada

All eyes on Toronto – the city whose Jewish sites have been hit at least 18 times since October 7

By Bill Gladstone

3 min read

Diaspora

Israeli President Isaac Herzog (Image: Israeli embassy)

Herzog voices concern for Commonwealth Jewry in the wake of terror attacks

The Israeli president is also calling for European support for efforts to disarm Hezbollah in Lebanon

By Natalie Lisbona

1 min read

UN agency launches investigation into strike on Iranian girls’ school Extremist group claiming to be behind Amsterdam school blast says it carried out second explosion

UK News

National Union of Students

Anti-Israel student activists want universities to cut ties with ‘Zionist’ NUS

Campaigners claim union has used ‘guise of antisemitism’ to marginalise Palestinians

By Jane Prinsley

3 min read

Protesters from London universities attend pro-Palestine demonstration in 2025 on second anniversary of October 7 attack on Israel (Dan Kitwood/Getty)

The Guardian

Exclusive: Jewish Guardian staff ‘gaslit’ over ‘progressive antisemitism’ in Gail’s column

Journalists claimed that internal dissent ‘fell on deaf ears’ and that there is a ‘culture of fear’ about raising objections to the paper’s reporting

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

The offices of the Guardian newspaper in central London, pictured in 2013 (Getty Images)

Israel Guide Dog Center

The guide dog in Israel turning sirens into smiles

Erez Barkai from Israel Guide Dog Centre spoke to the JC about how his dog Venus, who he describes as his ‘left hand’, has helped him and his neighbours during the war

By Ben Conway

4 min read

Erez with Venus in the bomb shelter at the centre in Rishon LeZion

Courts

Woman who said Hamas was ‘fighting for freedom’ found not guilty of supporting a terror group

Jury at the trial at Bristol Crown Court unanimously acquitted Kwabena Devonish

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

Kwabena Devonish speaking to a crowd in Cardiff, November 2023 (Credit: X)

Opinion

Theroux’s settler doc wins – predictably, Israelophobia pays

The BPG, a group of journalists, critics and other media insiders, was always bound to conform to the trend. Whenever Jews are upset by something, the industry rallies round and doubles down

By Jake Wallis Simons

2 min read

Louis Theroux's documentary on the settlers on BBC 2 (BBC)

By Maureen Lipman

The film Yentl was, in its way, a masterpiece of kitsch and charisma

The play is a rare theatrical triumph from Australia’s Kadimah Yiddish Theatre – partly in Yiddish with subtitles – that captivates so completely I was barely breathing

4 min read

By Charlotte Henry

From Gaza to Gail’s: The Guardian’s moral collapse over a north London café

We know people hold the appalling opinions expressed in the piece. It remains staggering that a national newspaper, one that is read around the world, thought it appropriate to publish such bile

3 min read

By Mark Sewards

Campus antisemitism is growing uglier in the UK – here’s how to confront it

When one in five students say they wouldn’t share a house with a Jewish peer, government and universities must act: challenge the demonisation of Israel, punish hate crimes, and adopt the IHRA definition

3 min read

By Fiyaz Mughal

A hate definition that may do more to divide Britain than protect its Muslims

This policy risks becoming a weapon in the culture wars – deployed in disputes over speech, media coverage and public debate, and fuelling a steady stream of controversies for years to come

4 min read

By Rob Rinder

Removing jury trials risks rights Jews know from history can slip

‘Justice, justice shall you pursue,’ the Torah instructs us. That justice requires structures that distribute power rather than concentrate it

3 min read

By Julie Fishman Rayman

Iran’s attacks expose the IRGC threat Europe can no longer ignore

The EU has finally proscribed Tehran’s state terror army; it must now freeze assets, expel agents and align with US sanctions – and the UK should follow

3 min read

Eggstraordinary: Paul Kutchinsky with his diamond-encrusted creation

memoir

How I cracked the mystery of my father and the biggest jewelled egg in the world

By Serena Kutchinsky

6 min read

Opera

Siegfried review: Spellbinding Schager is the greatest Siegfried of our age ★★★★★

The opera’s flawless cast, set design and music are led by Andreas Shager, who delivers one of the finest theatrical performances London has seen in many years

By Stephen Pollard

2 min read

complementary health

Doctor Posture, massage therapist to the stars reveals his secrets for a healthy back

Roger Golten treated George Soros and Sebastian Coe in the 1980s. What he is up to now?

By Gaby Koppel

5 min read

Golten's bestselling book and the Hellerwork practitioner proudly showing off a JC article, one of the many newspaper articles about his work

October 7

Melanie Phillips’s new guide to our antagonists and how to fight them fair and square

This punchy and practical handbook to battling Jew-hate is more than timely

By Dominic Green

3 min read

Our love is stronger than your hate: the march against antisemitism in London, in November 2023

Passover

Four cups, 12 expert recommendations

Three kosher wine experts share their insights on how to turn Seder night into an unforgettable journey, one cup at a time

By Victoria Prever and Siam Goorwich

4 min read

Four cups, three experts, 12 exceptional kosher for Pesach wines (Picture: Facebook/ Kedem Europe)

JC recipes

The ultimate Peach brownies (Picture: Inbal Bar-Oz and Leyla Freedman)

Pesach bake

Pesach chocolate brownies

By Fabienne Viner-Luzzato

Cook time: 30 minutes

Coconut and lime are a match made in tropical heaven (Picture: Inbal Bar-Oz and Leyla Freedman)

Passover bakes

Pesach coconut and lime cake

By Sarah Mann-Yeager

Cook time: 70-90 minutes

Passover bakes

Perfect Pesach brunch bagels

By Nir Elkayam

A comfort classic that will happily wait for you to finish your Seder (Picture: Inbal Bar-Oz and Leyla Freedman)

Passover recipe

Pesach fish pie

By Victoria Prever

Cook time: 1 hour

The Jewish Chronicle

Iran can no longer enrich uranium or produce ballistic missiles, claims Netanyahu

Alleged Iran spies targeted Britain’s oldest synagogue for surveillance, court told

Newlywed Thai worker who came to Israel ‘with hope to make a good life’ killed by Iranian cluster bomb

The convenient fiction that hides Iran’s hand and pins chaos on Israel

Drive to reclaim Gaza vote may lie behind Labour calls for Nick Timothy’s sacking

New photos reveal destruction inside Temple Israel shul after Michigan terror attack

Iranian man arrested trying to enter British nuclear submarine base

Former Labour councillor convicted of child sex offences spared jail

New rabbi to take the helm at South Herts and Edgware Masorti

Why I won’t take a test to see if my breast cancer will return

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‘A hug and I knew I was safe’: Noa Argamani recalls her rescue by the IDF after 246 days in captivity

Tucker Carlson calls pro-Hitler Oswald Mosley one of Britain’s ‘great war heroes’

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

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

New tools to help Israelis deal with the stress of war

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Trump distances US from Israeli strikes on Iranian gas field

Israeli trio makes NBA history in Portland-Brooklyn game

Trump labels BBC coverage of Iran War ‘corrupt and fraudulent’

After the Temple Israel attack, Detroit’s Jewish community stands unbowed

World news

UAE shuts down ‘Iran-backed terror network’ after Gulf strikes

FBI investigating ex-counterterror chief Joe Kent over alleged leak

Russian suicide drone strikes Great Choral Synagogue in Odesa

Arab states request emergency UN Human Rights Council debate on Iran’s ‘military aggression’

Qatar declares Iranian embassy staff ‘persona non grate’ after gas facility strike

All eyes on Toronto – the city whose Jewish sites have been hit at least 18 times since October 7

Herzog voices concern for Commonwealth Jewry in the wake of terror attacks

UK News

Anti-Israel student activists want universities to cut ties with ‘Zionist’ NUS

Exclusive: Jewish Guardian staff ‘gaslit’ over ‘progressive antisemitism’ in Gail’s column

The guide dog in Israel turning sirens into smiles

Woman who said Hamas was ‘fighting for freedom’ found not guilty of supporting a terror group

Opinion

Theroux’s settler doc wins – predictably, Israelophobia pays

The film Yentl was, in its way, a masterpiece of kitsch and charisma

From Gaza to Gail’s: The Guardian’s moral collapse over a north London café

Campus antisemitism is growing uglier in the UK – here’s how to confront it

A hate definition that may do more to divide Britain than protect its Muslims

Removing jury trials risks rights Jews know from history can slip

Iran’s attacks expose the IRGC threat Europe can no longer ignore

How I cracked the mystery of my father and the biggest jewelled egg in the world

Siegfried review: Spellbinding Schager is the greatest Siegfried of our age ★★★★★

Doctor Posture, massage therapist to the stars reveals his secrets for a healthy back

Melanie Phillips’s new guide to our antagonists and how to fight them fair and square

Four cups, 12 expert recommendations

JC recipes

Pesach chocolate brownies

Pesach coconut and lime cake

Perfect Pesach brunch bagels

Pesach fish pie