Daniel Ben-David

Daniel Ben-David is a reporter and community correspondent for the Jewish Chronicle. You can reach him at dbendavid@thejc.com

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Stranger Things defies the boycotters to become the biggest-ever Netflix season launch

The fifth season has attracted 59.6 million views in the first five days of its release

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Noah Schnapp attends a 'Stranger Things' Season 5 event in Berlin, November 18, 2025 (Credit: Sebastian Reuter/Getty Images for Netflix)

Patsy Bloom (left) and Susan James - co-chairs of Jewish Care's Bridge Extravaganza Committee (Photo: Jewish Care)

I hate the word ‘retire’. I’ve never stopped working

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Adolf Hitler Uunona is a Namibian politician (Image: X/ Adolf Hitler Uunona)

Namibian politician Adolf Hitler reveals name change

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Rose Castle in Cumbria (Credit: Daniel Ben-David)

Fortress mentality? Not at this medieval castle where Jews, Muslims and Christians did Shabbat

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Journalist Susanna Gross dies from cancer aged 58

Gross was known as much for her writing as she was for her accomplished Bridge career

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November 17, 2025 16:04

Keir Starmer ‘more worried’ about social cohesion than he has been in years

The Prime Minister spoke about the “terrible” terrorist attack at Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester

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November 14, 2025 10:21

Keir Starmer hosted an Interfaith reception at Number 10 (Photo: Lauren Hurley/No. 10 Downing Street)

‘The environment is an issue the whole community can get behind’

EcoJudaism held their second annual climate vigil in central London yesterday

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November 13, 2025 16:05

EcoJudaism vigil in central London (Photo: EcoJudaism)

Oxford Union to debate whether Israel poses greater threat than Iran to stability in the Middle East

Former Palestinian prime minister Mohammad Shtayyeh is accused of ‘cheerleading for Iran’

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November 11, 2025 15:40

Former Palestinian prime minister Mohammed Shtayyeh (left) and Conservative MP Greg Stafford (Photos: Getty/YouTube)

Emma Barnett reveals Jeremy Corbyn had to plead with his supporters to stop them sending her antisemitic abuse

Barnett also said that the terror attack on her old synagogue in Manchester last month ‘crossed a threshold’ in Britain

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November 9, 2025 13:35

Emma Barnett attends the British Podcast Awards at Indigo at The O2 Arena, October 02, 2025 (Credit: Lia Toby/Getty Images)

Punk icon Patti Smith reveals she is half Jewish

The musician says in her new memoir that she discovered eight years ago her patrilineal ancestry was ‘100 per cent Ashkenazi’

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November 9, 2025 11:30

US singer Patti Smith attends the red carpet of the opening film 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' during the 81st International Venice Film Festival at Venice Lido, August 28, 2024 (Credit: MARCO BERTORELLO/AFP via Getty Images)

Ireland’s football body passes motion calling on Uefa to suspend Israel

Discussions over a ban were halted last month following a US-brokered ceasefire in Gaza

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November 9, 2025 10:27

Israeli fans wave flags as they cheer their team warming up prior to the 2026 World Cup qualifiers, October 11, 2025 (Credit: FREDRIK VARFJELL/NTB/AFP via Getty Images)

Former chair of St John’s Wood shul appointed Honorary Colonel in the Royal Marines Reserve

The three-year appointment began on October 1

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November 5, 2025 16:57

Keith Breslauer, Honorary Colonel in the Royal Marines Reserve

Remembrance events to honour Jewish contribution to war effort

The Association of Jewish Refugees and the Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women are organising significant events this month

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November 5, 2025 13:38

Left: AJEX parade 2024, right: Ruth Brook Klauber, 101, who fled Nazi Germany and went on to serve in HM Armed Forces

Multifaith Israeli boxing team fights to beat the lies about ‘Zionism is racism’

Mixed-background Israelis of all faiths took on British boxers to demonstrate the true ethos of the Jewish state

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November 5, 2025 12:34

Multifaith Israeli boxing team fights to beat the lies about ‘Zionism is racism’

Leeds chippy batters down faith barriers

Marlows, the first fish and chip shop with kosher facilities in the city in half a century, is able to cater for both kosher and halal customers

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November 5, 2025 12:25

Leeds chippy batters down faith barriers

Jamaica Chabad staff locked Torah scrolls in mikvah room to protect them from Hurricane Melissa

The local rabbi and his family are safe after being left unable to evacuate the island

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October 30, 2025 11:40

Rabbi Yaakov Raskin of Chabad Jamaica during Hurricane Melissa (Image: X/Rabbi Yaakov Raskin)

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Daniel Ben-David

Latest from Daniel Ben-David

Stranger Things defies the boycotters to become the biggest-ever Netflix season launch

I hate the word ‘retire’. I’ve never stopped working

Namibian politician Adolf Hitler reveals name change

Fortress mentality? Not at this medieval castle where Jews, Muslims and Christians did Shabbat

More from Daniel Ben-David

Journalist Susanna Gross dies from cancer aged 58

Keir Starmer ‘more worried’ about social cohesion than he has been in years

‘The environment is an issue the whole community can get behind’

Oxford Union to debate whether Israel poses greater threat than Iran to stability in the Middle East

Emma Barnett reveals Jeremy Corbyn had to plead with his supporters to stop them sending her antisemitic abuse

Punk icon Patti Smith reveals she is half Jewish

Ireland’s football body passes motion calling on Uefa to suspend Israel

Former chair of St John’s Wood shul appointed Honorary Colonel in the Royal Marines Reserve

Remembrance events to honour Jewish contribution to war effort

Multifaith Israeli boxing team fights to beat the lies about ‘Zionism is racism’

Leeds chippy batters down faith barriers

Jamaica Chabad staff locked Torah scrolls in mikvah room to protect them from Hurricane Melissa