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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London venue cancels performance by Chasidic singer over ‘security concerns’

Despite ‘overwhelming’ demand for him in the city, Friedman’s team has for months failed to secure a London venue over links to Israel

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The Clapham Grand, London, England (Credit: Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images)

Louis Danker, president-elect of the Union of Jewish Students (Credit: UJS)

Edinburgh Uni student elected as next president of the Union of Jewish Students

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Solidarity: Jack Rankin MP (centre) and Nivi Feldman (left) at the launch, with Avinatan Or’s British mother Ditza Or, and his sisters Yehudit and Tomer.

Parliament wants them home: The MPs ‘twinning’ with our hostages

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JC panel discusses the growing hostility towards Jews in the arts. Left to right: Actress Louisa Clein, Michael Etherton, the Chief Executive of UK Jewish Film, literary agent Neil Blair, film producer Leo Pearlman, talent manager Jonathan Shalit, and broadcaster, barrister and JC columnist Rob Rinder (Photo: JC)

Film industry ‘institutionally antisemitic’ says BAFTA-nominated producer

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Kindertransport refugee and Shoah educator Bob Kirk BEM dies aged 99

The Holocaust Education Trust said Kirk leaves behind a ‘powerful’ legacy

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December 5, 2024 16:53

Ann and Bob Kirk JVN Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award winners

Biden criticised after being photographed walking out of bookshop with ‘one-sided’ anti-Israel book

It is unclear if he purchased the book himself

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December 5, 2024 10:04

US President Joe Biden walks out of a bookshop with son Hunter Biden, grandson Beau and daughter-in-law Melissa Cohen Biden in Nantucket, Massachusetts, November 29, 2024 (Credit: MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Leading rabbi welcomes assisted dying vote

Rabbi Jonathan Romain is also chair of Dignity in Dying

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December 4, 2024 12:55

Leading rabbi welcomes assisted dying vote

Lanterns adorn night sky in Brighton to express solidarity with the hostages

The display marked the beginning of a campaign to ‘redouble’ efforts to secure the release of the hostages held in Gaza

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December 3, 2024 17:04

A hundred and one lanterns were held aloft in the night sky in Brighton to raise awareness of the 101 hostages still captive in Gaza (Photo: Heidi Bachram)

Prime Minister asked to ‘celebrate as well as defend’ Jews in meeting with communal leaders

The 45-minute meeting followed a letter to Sir Keir Starmer expressing alarm at rising hostility towards Jews

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November 29, 2024 16:02

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer meets Jewish community leaders at 10 Downing Street, November 29, 2024 (Credit: Board of Deputies of British Jews)

Angela Rayner steps in over plan to build skyscraper next to Bevis Marks shul

The deputy PM will assess the planning application ahead of committee meeting next month

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November 29, 2024 15:43

Labour's Angela Rayner speaks at a campaign event in London, June 29, 2024 (Credit: Alishia Abodunde/Getty Images)

Chai Cancer Care reports 15 per cent increase in men seeking cancer support

The cancer support organisation is seeing more men approach them for support than ever before

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November 28, 2024 17:36

Hackney stands with Israel as motion to ‘de-twin’ from Haifa is defeated by Labour councillors

An attempt to end the 50-year-old relationship was roundly rejected

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November 28, 2024 16:38

Councillor Michael Desmond of Hackney Council

Azerbaijan’s Jews hid away during the Soviet era - now they say they are safe and free

The country, located where the Caucasus Mountains meet the Caspian Sea, achieved independence from the Soviet Union in 1991

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November 27, 2024 15:35

Old and new Azerbaijan: traditional architecture in the foreground and Baku's Flame Towers in the background

Holocaust education is confronting ‘existential crisis’, director of new project says

Sussex University has been awarded five year-grant to research the influence of AI, computer games and digital media on understanding of the Shoah

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November 26, 2024 14:14

Professor Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden at the launch of the Landecker Digital Memory Lab

Europe’s largest kosher supermarket opens in Stamford Hill, with a mixed response from locals

Hillwood Shopping District has dethroned Kosher Kingdom as the largest specialty-Jewish retailer in the UK

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November 25, 2024 12:50

Europe’s largest kosher supermarket opens in Stamford Hill, with a mixed response from locals

Jewish Care says budget changes will ‘actively harm’ care sector

The increase in NI will push up costs by over £1m

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November 20, 2024 14:49

Rachel Reeves' first budget, with the increase of NI, has alarmed the social care sector, including Jewish Care, the largest organisation providing social care in London and the southeast (Photo: Getty Images)

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Daniel Ben-David

Latest from Daniel Ben-David

London venue cancels performance by Chasidic singer over ‘security concerns’

Edinburgh Uni student elected as next president of the Union of Jewish Students

Parliament wants them home: The MPs ‘twinning’ with our hostages

Film industry ‘institutionally antisemitic’ says BAFTA-nominated producer

More from Daniel Ben-David

Kindertransport refugee and Shoah educator Bob Kirk BEM dies aged 99

Biden criticised after being photographed walking out of bookshop with ‘one-sided’ anti-Israel book

Leading rabbi welcomes assisted dying vote

Lanterns adorn night sky in Brighton to express solidarity with the hostages

Prime Minister asked to ‘celebrate as well as defend’ Jews in meeting with communal leaders

Angela Rayner steps in over plan to build skyscraper next to Bevis Marks shul

Chai Cancer Care reports 15 per cent increase in men seeking cancer support

Hackney stands with Israel as motion to ‘de-twin’ from Haifa is defeated by Labour councillors

Azerbaijan’s Jews hid away during the Soviet era - now they say they are safe and free

Holocaust education is confronting ‘existential crisis’, director of new project says

Europe’s largest kosher supermarket opens in Stamford Hill, with a mixed response from locals

Jewish Care says budget changes will ‘actively harm’ care sector