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The Guardian

Guardian pulls controversial October 7 documentary review that didn’t ‘meet editorial standards’

The papers review of the Channel 4 documentary ‘One Day in October’ faced a series of complaints

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Stephen Pollard

Why is the Guardian shocked that terrorists are portrayed as monsters?

The paper’s review of October 7 documentary One Day in October is amoral in criticising the film for sympathising with the massacre victims

Karen Glaser

This Yom Kippur will be my dad’s first ever in shul

Despite being entirely secular, October 7 has made him more at ease in the company of Jews

Melissa Langsam Braunstein

Cancelling all Jews has become the latest obsession of Israel’s enemies in the US

Jews in the creative industries have been the target of intense protests

Hezbollah

British-Israeli journalist ‘arrested in Hezbollah-run area of Beirut’

Joshua Tartakovsky, who graduated from LSE, reportedly entered Lebanon in the past two weeks to cover the conflict

David Lammy

Foreign Secretary visits Bahrain and Jordan amid push for regional de-escalation

David Lammy met Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Bahrain’s King Hamad

Israel

Alan Dershowitz says he will sue Mohammed Hijab for calling him a ‘pervert’ on Piers Morgan show

Dershowitz said he would take the Muslim influencer to court for ‘defamation’

Nisa-Nashim

‘I mourn and cry for every mother who has lost a child through this war’

To mark the first anniversary of October 7, Jewish and Muslim women came together to share how they had been impacted by events from the past year

Extremism

Government extremism adviser expresses concern at ‘levels of criminality’ at Palestine protests

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Jewish Small Communities Network

Over one third of Jews living in small UK towns have had to withdraw from normal activities since October 7

Yaakov Katz

The compelling case for an Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear programme

Laura Marks & Dr Zaza Johnson Elsheikh

We need to replace toxic hatred with hope for humanity

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In Focus

October 7 documentary shares heart-wrenching new insights into Kibbutz Be’eri massacre

Kibbutz Be'eri

Salmon recipe

Everything bagel braised salmon

A deliciously different way with salmon that everyone will love

Salmon recipe

Salmon with pomegranate, ginger and soy

A show stopping dish for a special meal

High Holy Days

Six shuls, one woman and trips down memory lane

Zoe Jacobs writes about spending the High Holy Days on a joyful shul-hop, visiting all her favourite congregations, both past and present

first person

Why October 7 has made us feel more Jewish than we did before

After the attack, David Mansoor, 25, dropped his Christian father’s surname and assumed his Mizrahi mother’s, while Felix Klein, 17, left his mainstream secondary, where antisemitism had become widespread, and is now happily enrolled at a Jewish school

Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis