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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Emma Barnett

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

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)

Punk icon Patti Smith reveals she is half Jewish

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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)

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

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Keith Breslauer, Honorary Colonel in the Royal Marines Reserve

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

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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)

Jewish identity project launched in Glasgow

The West End Project is a semi-regular gathering for Jewish people in Scotland aged between 20 and 40

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October 29, 2025 13:02

Participants in the first meeting of the West End Project in Glasgow (Credit: courtesy)

Gardening and an interfaith lunch in a historic church kicks off the build up to Mitzvah Day

Mitzvah Day, this year on November 23, is the UK’s largest faith-led day of social action

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October 29, 2025 12:56

Bob Blackman CBE MP and Laura Marks CBE with the multi-faith gardening group in Canons Park (Credit: Mitzvah Day)

Mensch of the Month: Matthew Kayne – Dedicated volunteer and cancer survivor

Matthew Kayne, volunteer, campaigner, DJ and music artist, lives with cerebral palsy

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October 29, 2025 12:32

Mensch of the Month: Matthew Kayne – Dedicated volunteer and cancer survivor

New café and social space for those impacted by dementia

The monthly café will offer the chance to speak with others who understand and are impacted by dementia

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October 29, 2025 12:26

New café and social space for those impacted by dementia

Ivor won! Host Baddiel scoops a Jewish Care award

More than 22 volunteering awards were given out this year to people aged everything from 14 to 94

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October 29, 2025 11:43

Left to right: Ivor Baddiel, Zoe Reese, winner of Best Newcomer Award, Jewish Care's Karen Conway and Marcus Sperber (Credit: Jewish Care)

Israeli former hostage Ada Sagi marks heriny of Shoah survivors

Ada Sagi was abducted from her home in Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7 and kept in Hamas captivity for 53 days, where she spent her 75th birthday

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October 22, 2025 11:52

Ada Sagi on her birthday with HSC staff and members, including Ivor Perl (in blue on the right), October 20 (Credit: Jewish Care)

King lauds ‘wonderful’ CST during visit to site of Manchester synagogue attack

The King and Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis visited Heaton Park synagogue, where two people lost their lives on Yom Kippur

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October 20, 2025 13:12

King Charles meets members of Manchester's Jewish community at Heaton Park Synagogue on October 20, 2025 (Image: Getty Images)

Brighton Council cut October 7, Hamas terror references from Jewish community speech

The council tried to censor a Jewish speaker before backing a motion to investigate the city’s financial links to Israel

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October 17, 2025 11:56

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Daniel Ben-David

Latest from Daniel Ben-David

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

More from Daniel Ben-David

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

Jewish identity project launched in Glasgow

Gardening and an interfaith lunch in a historic church kicks off the build up to Mitzvah Day

Mensch of the Month: Matthew Kayne – Dedicated volunteer and cancer survivor

New café and social space for those impacted by dementia

Ivor won! Host Baddiel scoops a Jewish Care award

Israeli former hostage Ada Sagi marks heriny of Shoah survivors

King lauds ‘wonderful’ CST during visit to site of Manchester synagogue attack

Brighton Council cut October 7, Hamas terror references from Jewish community speech