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Jeremy Corbyn MP addresses the audience on the second day of the inaugural conference of Your Party on November 30, 2025 in Liverpool, England. (Image: Getty)

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A police officer stands guards the outside of Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in October 2025 after two worshippers were killed and four people were hospitalised as a result of the terror attack there on Yom Kippur (Photo: Getty)

Crime

If Jewish communities are under threat, we are all under threat, police chief warns

By Kim Pilling

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Jailed: Walid Saadaoui, left, and Amar Hussein (Photo: CPS)

Crime

Pair who plotted Isis-style terror attack on Manchester’s Jews jailed for life

If successful the planned atrocity would ‘likely have been one of the deadliest terror attacks ever carried out on British soil’

By Kim Pilling

2 min read

Palestine Action

Activists ‘holding the country to ransom,’ warns Lord Walney as government says it will appeal Palestine Action ruling

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

The headquarters of the Chief Rabbinate in Jerusalem, October 31, 2024 (Flash90)

Israel

Israeli chief rabbinate to accept female applicants for rabbinical exams for first time ever

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Immanuel College

Teacher loses unfair dismissal claim against Immanuel College over ‘inappropriate messages’ with students

By Simon Rocker

1 min read

The JC Blind Date: ‘After I said I don’t eat non-kosher meat, he ordered a lamb shank’

Tributes paid to much-loved Jewish student leader

Jewish comedian Sandra Bernhard cast in The White Lotus season four

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Iran

Trump ‘insisted’ Iran talks continue in White House meeting with Netanyahu

The US president said he held out hope that a diplomatic deal with the Islamic regime could be ‘consummated’

By Jacob Jaffa

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President Trump meets Prime Minister Netanyahu at the White House on February 11, 2026 (GPO)

Nicola Peltz

Jewish billionaire Nelson Peltz advises Nicola and Brooklyn to ‘stay out of the press’ amid Beckham feud

Peltz’s remark comes amid the ongoing feud between Brooklyn Beckham and his parents

By Jamie Shapiro

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Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz renewed their vows after three years of marriage in a ceremony earlier this month, attended by 200 guests but excluding the Beckham family. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images for Balmain)

Zohran Mamdani

Zohran Mamdani appoints liberal Zionist to lead Office to Combat Antisemitism

Phylisa Wisdom has previously spoken out against the BDS movement, an anti-Israel initiative supported by the New York City mayor

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

Phylisa Wisdom, the new leader of the Office to Combat Antisemitism (Image: YouTube)

Iran

US-Iran talks moved to Oman after Islamic Republic threatens pullout

The negotiations had been set to take place in Turkey, but a row over nuclear enrichment and escalating tensions saw them come close to collapsing

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appears among his supporters in Tehran on June 26, 2025 (Office of the Supreme Leader of Iran via Getty Images)

World news

Roedean School in Johannesburg (Image: Roedean School)

Jewish schools

South African school apologises after refusing to play tennis match against Jewish pupils

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

Protestors march through Canberra city centre during a protest against the visit of Israel's President Isaac Herzog on February 09, 2026, in Canberra, Australia (Getty Images)

Australia

Melbourne University condemns ‘death to Herzog’ graffiti on campus building

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

USA curling silver medalists Cory Thiesse and Korey Dropkin hold up their medals on the podium of the mixed doubles event during the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games at the Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium in Cortina d'Ampezzo on February 10, 2026 (Getty Images)

Winter Olympics

Jewish-American curler makes history with Winter Olympic silver

By Ben Conway

1 min read

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (Credit: Getty)

Iran

Did the UN Secretary-General just say ‘happy birthday’ to the Iranian dictatorship?

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

The child was on his way to synagogue in Paris when the alleged incident occurred (Photo: Getty)

France

Jewish boy, 13, ‘attacked by five men’ on his way to synagogue

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

Judaica

Rothschild Vienna Mahzor sold for almost £5m in near-record for illuminated Hebrew manuscript

By Anthea Gerrie

2 min read

South Africa

Top private school pulls out of tennis match against Jewish school after parents ‘raised issues'

Roedean School South Africa said it ‘strongly refutes’ allegations of antisemitism

By Jamie Shapiro

3 min read

Calls to strip activist of ‘Australian of the Year’ award over ‘globalise the intifada’ chant in Sydney Man ‘obsessed with Judaism’ who threw Jewish neighbour from 17th-floor balcony ‘not motivated by antisemitism’

UK News

Politics

Demand resignation of ‘anti-Israel’ UN rapporteur, 40 peers tell Yvette Cooper

Francesca Albanese made ‘outrageous and irresponsible’ comments about the ‘common enemy of humanity’

By Jane Prinsley

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United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese (Photo: Getty)

CPS

Failure of CPS to collect data on prosecutions involving antisemitism is ‘flabbergasting’

Panellists at a JC event discussed the challenges the country faces in prosecuting those charged with crimes involving Jew-hate

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

Speaking at a JC panel event, from left to right, JC political correspondent Lorin Bell-Cross, MP Joani Reid, lawyer Mark Lewis, general counsel for the JLC David Toube and Sir Michael Ellis

Palestine Action

UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, High Court rules

The group will remain banned while the government considers an appeal

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

Palestine Action

‘A threat to the administration of justice’: CPS chief calls on activists to halt Palestine Action court protests

Stephen Parkinson is calling for action to be taken ahead of a potential retrial in the high-profile case relating to the break-in at the Elbit factory near Bristol in 2024

By Siam Goorwich

1 min read

Supporters of the Palestine Action activists demonstrate outside Woolwich Crown Court during the trial (Picture: Ben Stanstall/ Getty Images)

Opinion

From woke to broke: The Washington Post’s crisis should alarm the BBC and others

The former press giant’s fall illustrates how ‘journactivism’, most visibly on Israel, corrodes credibility and weakens the media’s democratic role

By Stephen Daisley

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Reporter Marissa Lang, who was laid off from the Washington Post, speaks as Washington Post employees, along with supporters from the Washington-Baltimore News Guild, rally outside the Washington Post office building in Washington, DC, on Feburary 5, 2026. The Washington Post, owned by billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, announced major job cuts on February 4, saying that "painful" restructuring was needed at the storied newspaper. The Post, which gained legendary status when its reporting helped bring down president Richard Nixon in the Watergate scandal, will see "substantial" reductions in its newsroom, Executive Editor Matt Murray said. (Photo by Oliver Contreras / AFP via Getty Images)

By Melissa Langsam Braunstein

The American rabbi tasked with taking on global antisemitism

The problem Kaploun confronts is both massive and millennia in the making. However, there’s hope as Kaploun enters the fray with the heft of the US government behind him.

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By David Toube

Two-tier outcomes: Why British Jews no longer trust the criminal justice system

The Crown Prosecution Service has no data on prosecution or conviction rates for antisemitic crimes. When an organisation cannot scope a problem, it cannot address it

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By Arsen Ostrovsky

After Bondi, the anti-Israel protests against Herzog shame Australia

Do we allow the loudest and most extreme voices to dictate our national conversation? Or do we say “enough is enough” to those who spread hatred under the guise of activism?

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By Jonathan Sacerdoti

Prince William courts Saudi Arabia while Israel remains untouchable

It would be a striking gesture were the heir – or the King – to visit the Jewish state soon, signalling solidarity with a democracy facing multi-front threats, including from Iran. It would also acknowledge that those threats are aimed at Britain, too

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By The JC Leader

Antisemitism is costing Britain investment and jobs

When anti-Jewish conspiracy theories are allowed to metastasise, they hollow out institutions, corrode democratic norms and ultimately make a society poorer – morally and materially

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By Melanie Phillips

Bret Stephens is wrong. Jews can’t just turn inward and ignore antisemitism

We have a moral obligation to fight for our survival. We should be saying that Zionism is an inseparable part of Judaism, and so antizionism is an attempt to destroy not just Israel but Judaism itself

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Life

My youth club leader Michael Moritz is now a billionaire (and, yes, I did predict he had a big future!)

By Gaby Koppel

5 min read

World expert: David Harris and his new book

Books

There’s no easy cure for the world’s longest hatred. But this book is a start

This rigorous guide works for Jewish readers trying to comprehend how this irrational madness is happening again, and for allies grappling with the question of why people hate Jews

By Nicole Lampert

2 min read

Theatre

‘When I first saw the images I felt sick to my stomach’

John Nathan meets a writer whose Pulitzer-finalist play, inspired by a Nazi photograph album, is making its UK debut

By John Nathan

6 min read

Writing pair: Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich

Winter Olympics

From obese yeshivah student to Slider-Man – the remarkable run of Israel’s Olympic bobsleigh pilot

Is bobsleighng permitted on Shabbat? Yes it is says this Orthodox athlete

By Jane Prinsley

6 min read

Super slider AJ Edelman (Photo: David Zimand)

Art

Peter Kien stowed his art in a suitcase before the Nazis murdered him – now it’s finally in safe hands

The Wiener Library has just acquired 681 drawings, poems and letters by Kien, whose work has been recovered after an 80-year journey

By Eliana Jordan

5 min read

One of the drawings from Theresienstadt found in Kien's suitcase

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Cake

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By Katie Marshall

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Cake

Pear and chocolate frangipane tarts

By Sarah Mann-Yeager

Cook time: 20 minutes

Vegetarian recipe

Golden brown rice and lentils with sweet dates

By Silvia Nacamulli

Cook time: 45-50 minutes

Tu Bishvat

Spiced nuts, olives and raisins on hummus

By Georgia Freedman

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The Jewish Chronicle

Jewish councillor branded ‘Zionist trash’ by Your Party activist

If Jewish communities are under threat, we are all under threat, police chief warns

Pair who plotted Isis-style terror attack on Manchester’s Jews jailed for life

Activists ‘holding the country to ransom,’ warns Lord Walney as government says it will appeal Palestine Action ruling

Israeli chief rabbinate to accept female applicants for rabbinical exams for first time ever

Teacher loses unfair dismissal claim against Immanuel College over ‘inappropriate messages’ with students

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The JC Blind Date: ‘After I said I don’t eat non-kosher meat, he ordered a lamb shank’

Tributes paid to much-loved Jewish student leader

Jewish comedian Sandra Bernhard cast in The White Lotus season four

Is TikTok's algorithm making Jewish content more visible or more vulnerable?

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Trump ‘insisted’ Iran talks continue in White House meeting with Netanyahu

Jewish billionaire Nelson Peltz advises Nicola and Brooklyn to ‘stay out of the press’ amid Beckham feud

Zohran Mamdani appoints liberal Zionist to lead Office to Combat Antisemitism

US-Iran talks moved to Oman after Islamic Republic threatens pullout

World news

South African school apologises after refusing to play tennis match against Jewish pupils

Melbourne University condemns ‘death to Herzog’ graffiti on campus building

Jewish-American curler makes history with Winter Olympic silver

Did the UN Secretary-General just say ‘happy birthday’ to the Iranian dictatorship?

Jewish boy, 13, ‘attacked by five men’ on his way to synagogue

Rothschild Vienna Mahzor sold for almost £5m in near-record for illuminated Hebrew manuscript

Top private school pulls out of tennis match against Jewish school after parents ‘raised issues'

UK News

Demand resignation of ‘anti-Israel’ UN rapporteur, 40 peers tell Yvette Cooper

Failure of CPS to collect data on prosecutions involving antisemitism is ‘flabbergasting’

UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, High Court rules

‘A threat to the administration of justice’: CPS chief calls on activists to halt Palestine Action court protests

Opinion

From woke to broke: The Washington Post’s crisis should alarm the BBC and others

The American rabbi tasked with taking on global antisemitism

Two-tier outcomes: Why British Jews no longer trust the criminal justice system

After Bondi, the anti-Israel protests against Herzog shame Australia

Prince William courts Saudi Arabia while Israel remains untouchable

Antisemitism is costing Britain investment and jobs

Bret Stephens is wrong. Jews can’t just turn inward and ignore antisemitism

Life

My youth club leader Michael Moritz is now a billionaire (and, yes, I did predict he had a big future!)

There’s no easy cure for the world’s longest hatred. But this book is a start

‘When I first saw the images I felt sick to my stomach’

From obese yeshivah student to Slider-Man – the remarkable run of Israel’s Olympic bobsleigh pilot

Peter Kien stowed his art in a suitcase before the Nazis murdered him – now it’s finally in safe hands

Support the world’s oldest Jewish newspaper

Sticky toffee date cake

Pear and chocolate frangipane tarts

Golden brown rice and lentils with sweet dates

Spiced nuts, olives and raisins on hummus