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The public menorah erected by Chabad in Muswell Hill for Chanukah was damaged on Thursday night (Credit: Chabad Crouch End)

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Wikipedia

Wikipedia states as fact that Israel has committed genocide

By JC Reporter

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Demonstrators march through Sydney's central business district (CBD) during a rally for Gaza on August 24, 2025 (Getty Images)

Sydney terror attack

New South Wales may ban anti-Israel protests for up to three months following Bondi massacre

The state’s police have promised a ‘significant response’ to several ‘unauthorised gatherings’ planned for the weekend

By Jacob Jaffa

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A view of a common area inside the GV Hotel where Sajid and Naveed Akram, suspects in the deadly Bondi Beach shooting, stayed last November (Photo by Ezra Acayan/Getty Images)

Sydney terror attack

Investigators swoop on Philippines hotel where the Bondi jihadis stayed while they ‘trained to kill’

By Mark Wood

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Sydney terror attack

Bondi shooter trained ‘how to hunt’ at local gun club prior to terror attack

By Jacob Jaffa

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Celebrating Chanukah with Chabad of Solihull, Rabbi Yehuda and Rebbetzin Dinie Pink, and Mayor of Solihull Annette Mackenzie and the Mayor of West Midlands Richard Parker

Sydney terror attack

‘As darkness shows its face again, we increase the light. We do not step back from Jewish life’

By Rabbi Yehuda Pink

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The Hamas files: how terrorists captured Western NGOs in Gaza

Thank socialism for our Chanukah doughnuts

Timeline of terror: How a scene of family joy at Bondi turned to horror

How to talk to your children about the Sydney terror attack, according to mental health experts

Hundreds dance beneath Europe’s largest menorah in Trafalgar Square

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Latest US News

Trump supporter Yehuda Kaploun appointed US envoy for combating antisemitism

The Chabad rabbi replaces Deborah Lipstadt as special envoy for monitoring and combating antisemitism

By Jane Prinsley

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Donald Trump and Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun light a candle during an October 7th remembrance event in 2024 (Photo: Getty)

Technology

Nvidia announces huge new headquarters in ‘second home’ Israel

The complex’s design will resemble the chip giant’s iconic spacecraft building in Silicon Valley, accommodating more than 10,000 employees

By JC Reporter

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SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA - AUGUST 27: A sign is posted in front of Nvidia headquarters on August 27, 2025 in Santa Clara, California. Chip maker Nvidia will report second-quarter earnings today after the closing bell. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Donald Trump

‘Philosemite’ Trump laments decline of ‘powerful Jewish lobby’ in Washington

The term ‘Jewish lobby’ is widely understood to be derogatory, though Trump apparently employed it in an effort to be complimentary

By Andrew Bernard

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Donald Trump holds up a kippah with a picture of himself after he was shot and word 'Fight' at the 2025 White House Chanukah party (Photo: Getty)

Palestinian Authority

US expands travel ban to Palestinian Authority passport holders

Those travelling from the West Bank will face significant entry restrictions, while other nations like Syria have been hit with a total prohibition

By Jacob Jaffa

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The Palestinian authority passport travel document, for Palestinian residents of the Palestinian territories for the purpose of international travel, issued since April 1995 for people of Palestine

World news

Manchester Jewish Museum

Manchester Jewish artist unveils new work to promote ‘harmony and cohesiveness’

By Gaby Wine

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JW3 Chief Executive Ray Simonson and Marcel Knobil removing padlocks on the Lovelock Bridge at JW3 (Credit: JW3)

Hostages

British Jewish communal leaders rejoice at return of the hostages

By Daniel Ben-David

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Police walk past floral tributes left at the promenade of Bondi Beach in Sydney (Picture: Getty)

Australia

Armed police in Sydney detain seven men in dramatic operation

By Siam Goorwich

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A mourner arrives at Matilda's funeral carrying balloons bearing the 10-year-old's name, and in the shape of a bumblebee, a nod to her middle name, Bee (Photo: Getty)

Sydney terror attack

Balloons and bumblebee stickers: Matilda, 10, remembered as funerals held for Bondi victims

By Daniel Ben-David

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Adam Smyth was a passionate Liverpool fan (Photo: X)

Sydney terror attack

‘You’ll never walk alone’: Liverpool FC fan mourned after Sydney terror attack

By Katie Grant

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People visit a memorial at Bondi Pavilion before a candlelight vigil at Bondi Beach on December 16, 2025 in Sydney, Australia (Getty Images)

Sydney terror attack

Australia to tighten hate speech laws following Bondi massacre

By Jacob Jaffa

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Sydney terror attack

‘A young Jewish heroine’: Jewish teen recovering in hospital after being shot shielding two young children from Bondi attack

Chaya was visited in hospital by United Hatzalah’s Psychotrauma Unit volunteers

By Siam Goorwich

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Murdered British rabbi’s two-month-old baby was hit in Bondi terror attack Jewish bakery in Sydney facing ‘ceaseless’ antisemitism closes amid safety fears

UK News

Antisemitism

Ofcom told to act against online hate in government antisemitism action plan

Newly published raft of measures to protect Jewish community also covers security, education and NHS

By Jane Prinsley

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A new 14-page government report has brought together work across the UK to help combat antisemitism (Photo: Getty)

Showbiz

Jewish presenter Stacey Solomon crowned ‘queen of Christmas’

Solomon has both Ashkenazi and Sephardi roots

By Siam Goorwich

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Stacey Solomon, pictured presenting her BBC One show Stacey Solomon's Crafty Christmas, has topped a poll (Photo:BBC)

Metropolitan Police

Two arrested in London over ‘globalise the intifada’ chant

Pressure mounts on other forces to adopt ban on calls for intifada

By Jane Prinsley

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Police officers gather in Trafalgar Square ahead of a planned protest in support of Palestine Action on October 4, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by Alishia Abodunde/Getty Images)

BBC

‘Disgraceful’ BBC article accused of whitewashing extreme violence of Second Intifada

Corporation then edits piece to suggest the word intifada could be seen as ‘a call for peaceful resistance to Israel's occupation’

By Jane Prinsley

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BBC Broadcasting House in London (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

Opinion

As an ex-policeman, I know exactly why it took dead Jews for the force to act against the hate mob

Too often, the advancement of senior officers depends less on what they do than on how well they can write up what they claim to have done

By Gill Levy

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By Mike Doran

Tucker Carlson claims Israel is a burden on the US. It reveals profound strategic ignorance

The security mechanism with the Jewish state directly serves the American interest and, in practice, saves American lives, soldiers and civilians alike

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By Stephen Daisley

Jews had to die, repeatedly, before the UK acted on ‘globalise the intifada’

In Britain, and not only Britain, solidarity with the community tends to be post-mortem

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By Maureen Lipman

There I was, childishly delighted to drink my own face

In the Orient Hotel in Jerusalem I was presented with a cappuccino with my likeness on it. In froth. Don’t ask me how they did it or why I was singled out for special treatment

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By Melissa Langsam Braunstein

Antisemitism is a national security threat

Jew-hatred is not merely a moral failing. It operates as a strategic weapon – one that corrodes alliance cohesion, weakens deterrence, and undermines the legitimacy on which American power rests

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By Shany Mor

The dishonest ‘complicity’ argument driving the obsession with Israel

By a moral sleight of hand, anti-Zionists turn selective outrage into virtue, while refusing to reckon with the antisemitic violence their activism may inspire

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By Bernard-Henri Lévy

The intifada has been globalised

For what happened in Sydney could happen in any city in the world where one is still frivolous enough to believe that words are just words and that slogans bind only those who chant them

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Life

Spielberg’s first bite at the big time is celebrated in Hollywood

By Anthea Gerrie

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Off his own bat: Timothée Chalamet as Marty Mauser in Marty Supreme

Table tennis

Ping! How Jews turned the table on the game Howard Jacobson calls chess in shorts

Next week sees the the release of the film Marty Supreme inspired by a world-famous Jewish ping pong player. We look back on at the sport’s very Yiddishe history

By Elisa Bray

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Theatre