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Ashkenazi food

Is this schnitzel a cut above the rest?

By Natalie Blenford

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Nova

‘I thought, let’s rebuild the festival and show the world what happened’ – the story behind the Nova Exhibition

Creators of the display bearing witness to horrors of October 7 speak to the JC as it nears the end of its stint in London

By Alma Green

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Theatre

London theatre to be renamed after late playwright Sir Tom Stoppard

By JC Reporter

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A general view of Birmingham Crown Court on October 17, 2024 (Getty Images)

Courts

Protesters accused over aerospace factory damage to face retrial next year

By JC Reporter

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Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan attends a joint press conference with his Russian counterpart following their meeting in Moscow on June 16, 2026. (Photo by SERGEI ILNITSKY / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)

Turkey

Sa’ar accuses Turkish counterpart of ‘inciting genocide’ after he dubbed Israeli government an ‘unbearable burden’

By Melanie Swan

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Editor’s picks

Opinion: Britain’s increasingly ‘Israel-frei’ cultural festivals

My mum gave me up for adoption. A Llandudno doctor made sure I went to a Jewish home

Opinion: Why the Lancet study suggesting a far higher Gaza death toll is deeply flawed

76 years old, 10,000 feet up in the sky, £18,000 raised for charity

Pro-Palestine parents launch campaign against school antisemitism review

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Iran

US intelligence suggested Iran’s missiles could reach London in future, claims prominent Senator

Louisiana Republican John Kennedy suggested that the threat of attacks on Europe was a motivating factor in President Trump’s decision to go to war

By Jacob Jaffa

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Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) on the This Past Weekend podcast with Theo Von (YouTube/TheoVon)

US Politics

Anti-Israel socialist who called October 7 ‘inevitable consequence of apartheid’ wins Colorado primary

Melat Kiros unseated 15-term incumbent Representative Diana DeGette to clinch the Democratic nomination for Denver

By Andrew Bernard

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Democratic congressional candidate Melat Kiros speaks to supporters at an election-night watch party after winning the Colorado primary on June 30, 2026 (Getty Images)

US Politics

House blocks vote on amendment to halt US-Israeli defence integration

There was also no debate on a separate bill aimed at heavily reducing US funding to the IDF

By Jacob Jaffa

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Representative Thomas Massie gives his concession speech on May 19, 2026 in Hebron, Kentucky (Getty Images)

US Politics

Veteran Democratic political strategist: ‘I don’t want to be in a political party that denies the right of the state of Israel to exist’

James Carville said he supported the idea of ‘schism’ between the party’s ‘traditional Democrats and Democratic socialists’

By Ben Conway

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James Carville (right) onstage during Election Night Live With Brian Williams in November 2024 (photo: Matt Winkelmeyer / Getty Images for Amazon Studios)

World news

An image purporting to show Anastasiia Berezovska (Interpol)

Ukraine

Interpol hunt female suspect over Monaco bomb attack on Jewish tycoon

By Jane Prinsley

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Pictured in 2024, the elusive new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei (Hamed JAFARNEJAD / ISNA / AFP via Getty)

Iran

Will Iran’s Supreme Leader finally come out of hiding for funeral of his father?

By Ali Hamedani

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The 'anti-Zionist' patrol seen marching through the streets of Thessaloniki (Image: Instagram)

Anti-Israel protests

‘Anti-Zionist patrols’ are sign of ‘new wave of fanaticism’, say Greek Jews

By JC Reporter

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Outgoing Unrwa Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini leaves after his final press conference at the UN offices in Geneva on March 31, 2026 (Getty Images)

Gaza Board of Peace

‘No place in the new Gaza’ for Unrwa says Board of Peace

By JC Reporter

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Vincent Van Gogh's Hôpital Saint-Paul à Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, 1889 (Credit: Musée d’Orsay)

Art

Grandson of Jewish art collector fights to reclaim Van Gogh lost during Nazi era

By Daniel Ben-David

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Bereaved families mark 1,000 days since October 7 at Nahal Oz Observers Memorial Monument near Gaza border on 2 July 2026 (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Israel

Israel marks 1,000 days since October 7 with minute of silence to remember the fallen

By John Jeffay

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Letter from Jerusalem

US vice president JD Vance (left) and secretary of state Marco Rubio, with (behind) flag showing slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in rubble in Lebanon after Israel air strike (Getty)

Will it be the Vance vision or Rubio rules that shapes the future of the Middle East?

Competing strategies within the US administration are vying to determine the fate of Israel, Lebanon and Iran

By Natalie Lisbona

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Boy George brands Roger Waters a ‘sanctimonious t***’ after Pink Floyd founder’s anti-Israel remarks US envoy who introduced Donald Trump to Melania wants to bring Israel and Palestinians together on football pitch

UK News

Bob Vylan

Anti-Israel punk duo Bob Vylan suing BBC for libel over Glastonbury scandal coverage

The band’s frontman famously led a chant of ‘death to the IDF’ at the festival, which the former BBC director general labelled an ‘antisemitic broadcast’

By JC Reporter

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Bobby Vylan of Bob Vylan crowdsurfs in front of the West Holts stage during day four of Glastonbury festival 2025 at Worthy Farm, Pilton. (Getty Images)

Court and Crime

Pensioner handed life sentence for husband’s murder

Daryl Berman had claimed that David, her husband of almost 30 years, had accidentally fallen on the knife while carrying a lunch tray

By Ian Leonard

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Wimbledon

Pro-Palestine watermelon symbol does not meet threshold for disruption, says Wimbledon director

Turkish world number 51 Zeynep Sonmez added a vibration dampener in the shape of the symbol to her racket, accusing tournament organisers of enforcing double standards on political expressions by players

By JC Reporter

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Zeynep Sonmez of Turkey plays a backhand against Ekaterina Alexandrova during the Ladies' Singles third round match at Wimbledon 2025 (Getty Images)

Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh students stage pro-Palestine walkout during graduation ceremony

An anti-Israel student-led society at the school said it was the third walkout in as many years

By Daniel Ben-David

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A group of University of Edinburgh students protest the school's alleged financial links to Israel (Credit: Edinburgh University Justice for Palestine Society/Instagram)

Opinion

It was a daring mission, even for the IDF: Entebbe 50 years on

Israel’s unmistakable message was that it would go to any lengths to protect the lives of its citizens and fellow Jews – and that the days of Jewish powerlessness were over

By David Harris

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Rescued Air France passengers wave to the waiting crowd as they disembark from an IDF Hercules aircraft at Ben Gurion Airport (Image: Government Press Office, Israel)

By Nicholas Lezard

Using the ‘g-word’ about Israel is now a ubiquitous virtue signal

For pro-Palestine activists, the term ‘genocide’ has become a shibboleth: you have to say it or risk ostracism

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By Jonathan Boyd

We know too little about what reduces Jew-hatred. It’s urgent that we find out

What’s needed is a standing, cross-disciplinary team that brings together expertise in antisemitism and in a range of fields, from public policy and law to intelligence, theology, education and psychology

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By Evie Robinson

The Nova Exhibition answers the call to document and remember

It draws on many tools of memorialisation that might typically be found in a Holocaust-related museum – such as the tables full of shoes and clothing, seeking to individualise the victims

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By Sarah Tetteh

The ‘man with the golden ear’ who called me a ‘baby Whitney’

Clive Davis carried himself with the confidence of someone who had helped shape American popular culture. He had an aura about him, something I could not quite put my finger on

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By Amar Singh Bhandal

Ukraine – the country where soldiers queue to thank a rabbi

Russia’s Nazi slurs against Kyiv collapse on contact with reality. Here, Judaism means resistance and resilience – exactly what scares the Kremlin most

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By Mark Sewards

Universities have failed Jewish students – now government must broaden fight against campus antisemitism

Ministers must go further, with statutory investigations, stronger sanctions and a joined-up strategy to confront hate and extremism in higher education

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