Ben Weich

Ben Weich is a reporter for the JC.

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Katie Hopkins attends ZF dinner

The fundraising evening was also marred by the heckling of Gideon Sa’ar, a former Israeli Minister for Internal Affairs and a potential successor to Benjamin Netanyahu

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Columnist and author Michele Hanson dies

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Disneyworld-style Jewish theme park planned

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Communal groups unite for Israel 70th celebration

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Holocaust revisionist says songs mocking Jews are ‘satire’

Alison Chabloz faces five charges related to songs alleged to have been 'grossly offensive'

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March 7, 2018 14:45

Holocaust revisionist says songs mocking Jews are ‘satire’

Masked protesters halt campus event featuring Israeli speaker

Israeli Yaron Brook, the chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute, was speaking at King's College with a controversial YouTube personality known as Sargon of Akkad

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March 6, 2018 11:43

Masked protesters halt campus event featuring Israeli speaker

Beth Din finds treif chicken in South African caterer's kitchen

The kashrut agency said it made the "painful decision" to immediately withdraw Stan & Pete's certification

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March 6, 2018 09:02

Beth Din finds treif chicken in South African caterer's kitchen

Abramovich gives £14m to Israeli hospital

The new facility will house a particle accelerator which will be able to kill cancerous cells with ion beams

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March 5, 2018 16:42

Abramovich gives £14m to Israeli hospital

Author Clive Sinclair dies aged 70

The novelist won the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize and the Macmillan Silver Pen Award for 1996’s The Lady with the Laptop and Other Stories

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March 5, 2018 12:32

FA chief Martin Glenn likens Star of David to swastika

Simon Johnson, the chief executive of the Jewish Leadership Council, described Martin Glenn's remarks as "ill judged and in poor taste"

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March 5, 2018 09:19

FA chief Martin Glenn likens Star of David to swastika

Shul and mosque shelter homeless in cold snap

West London Synagogue worked with the nearby Al-Manaar mosque for the emergency effort

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March 4, 2018 13:27

Shul and mosque shelter homeless in cold snap

Four arrested after French Jewish teenager attacked

Meyer Habib, a member of the French National Assembly, has called for action on antisemitism in the suburbs

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March 4, 2018 12:17

Four arrested after French Jewish teenager attacked

Calls for Labour to sack speechwriter for anti-Israel tweets

Joss MacDonald branded Israel an “apartheid state” and claimed its conduct is permitted “because of the Holocaust”

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March 4, 2018 11:31

Calls for Labour to sack speechwriter for anti-Israel tweets

Reform movement launches online classes for converts

It follows the conversion by Skype of Christopher Parker, a cerebral palsy sufferer from Derbyshire, who was unable to appear before the Reform Beit Din

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March 2, 2018 15:09