Eliana Jordan

Junior Feature Writer

Eliana Jordan is a feature writer for the Jewish Chronicle. You can reach her at ejordan@thejc.com.

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Lena Dunham finds out her family’s Holocaust history

The Jewish actor and writer learned that her great-great-grandmother’s family suffered losses during the Holocaust on the US show ‘Finding Your Roots’

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Jewish actor and writer Lena Dunham discovers her family's Holocaust connection during last week's episode of "Finding Your Roots" with Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Screenshot via PBS)

McDonald's has announced it will acquire 225 of its franchisee restaurants in Israel following a downturn in sales since October 7. (Photo by EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP via Getty Images)

McDonald’s buys back all Israeli restaurants after they gave free food to IDF soldiers

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Actor Julia Garner will play Silver Surfer in the upcoming Marvel film 'The Fantastic Four' despite criticism over her Israeli background. (Photo by MICHAEL TRAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Anti-Israel critics slam casting of Julia Garner in new Marvel film

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Rapper Kanye West (C) faces a lawsuit for harassing and discriminating against a former employee. (Photo by JULIEN DE ROSA/AFP via Getty Images)

‘The Jews are out to get me’: former Kanye West employee sues over antisemitic remarks

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‘We won’t hide and we won’t be silenced’: Counter-protesters to demonstrate against Al Quds Day march

The annual anti-Israel event has close ties to the Iranian regime

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April 4, 2024 12:24

The annual Al Quds Day march and rally is set to take place tomorrow (Photo: Getty Images)

Jewish Women’s Aid smashes fundraising target to ‘protect all Jewish women from abuse’

Over £500,000 will go towards the charity which supports women and children affected by gender-based violence

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April 3, 2024 13:24

Rachel Riley hosting the Jewish Women's Aid dinner (Photo: Amanda Ward Photography)

IDF announces 600th soldier killed in action since October 7

Staff Sgt. Nadav Cohen, 20, was killed by an anti-tank missile in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday

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April 1, 2024 11:46

256 Israeli soldiers have been killed in combat since the ground invasion of Gaza began on 27 October 2023. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)

Hundreds mourn ‘supreme mensch’ Joe Lieberman at Jewish senator’s funeral

‘We laughed together, we fought like hell together for what we wanted our country to be’ said Al Gore

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April 1, 2024 11:19

US Senator from Connecticut Joe Lieberman passed away last week at the age of 82. (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

IDF withdraws from Gaza’s main hospital after two-week operation

Troops reportedly engaged in combat with Hamas operatives and located weapons in the hospital during two week siege

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April 1, 2024 10:03

Palestinians inspect the damage at Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital after the Israeli military withdrew from the complex housing the hospital on 1 April 2024. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)

Charities on the home front smash their targets

Recent fundraisers have shown that the community stands firmly behind its domestic support services

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March 29, 2024 09:33

Kisharon Langdon celebrate their fundraising success after their Top of the World campaign raised over £2 million

Eurovision boycott Cinema under investigation by Charity Commission

The Rio cinema was the subject of numerous complaints after boycotting its annual Eurovision screening over Israel’s involvement

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March 28, 2024 17:58

The Rio Cinema in Dalston, which has hosted the UK's largest Eurovision screening in past years, has cancelled this year's screening of the song contest over Israel's inclusion. (Photo: Andrew Woodyatt)

Palestine demonstrators heckle Holocaust survivor at Berkeley City Council meeting

Demonstrators called Israel supporters ‘Zionist pigs’ and ‘money suckers’ at a routine council meeting

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March 28, 2024 16:35

Palestine demonstrators heckle Holocaust survivor at Berkeley City Council meeting

Outrage as picture showing body of murdered hostage Shani Louk wins competition

The shocking photo was among a collection of Israel-Hamas war photos awarded Team Picture Story of the Year in the world’s oldest photojurnalism award

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March 28, 2024 13:13

Ali Mahmud's prize-winning picture of Hamas terrorists driving back to Gaza with the body of Shani Leuk. The JC has blurred her image, the prize committee and AP did not. (Photo/Ali Mahmud/AP/Alamy)

Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman dies aged 90

The Israeli-American professor, known for his work in the field of behavioural economics, passed away this week

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March 27, 2024 16:53

Nobel Prize laureate Daniel Kahneman, pictured here in 2009, passed away this week at the age of 90. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images for Burda Media)

Hamas terrorist forced me to commit sex acts on him at gunpoint, ex-hostage reveals

Amit Soussana is the first Israeli to share her personal story of sexual abuse at the hands of Hamas

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March 26, 2024 19:43

KFAR AZA, ISRAEL - JANUARY 29: Amit Soussana (r), who was held hostage by Hamas and released reacts after speaking to the press near her house where she was kidnapped during the Oct 7 attack on the kibbutz, on January 29, 2024 in Kfar Aza, Israel. Dozens of Kfar Aza residents were killed, and others kidnapped, during the Oct. 7 attack on the kibbutz by Hamas. Many of the towns and kibbutzim attacked on that day remain completely evacuated, with their residents having relocated to other parts of Israel. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

Jewish doctor finally gets his degree, 86 years late

Dr Fritz Deutscher was forced to flee from Austria just before qualifying. Now his British family has received his university diploma

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March 26, 2024 18:11

Recognition at last: Fritz Deutscher, later Dr Frank Dexter, in his British army uniform during the Second World War (Photo: Courtesy Dr Selwyn Dexter)

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Latest from Eliana Jordan

Lena Dunham finds out her family’s Holocaust history

McDonald’s buys back all Israeli restaurants after they gave free food to IDF soldiers

Anti-Israel critics slam casting of Julia Garner in new Marvel film

‘The Jews are out to get me’: former Kanye West employee sues over antisemitic remarks

More from Eliana Jordan

‘We won’t hide and we won’t be silenced’: Counter-protesters to demonstrate against Al Quds Day march

Jewish Women’s Aid smashes fundraising target to ‘protect all Jewish women from abuse’

IDF announces 600th soldier killed in action since October 7

Hundreds mourn ‘supreme mensch’ Joe Lieberman at Jewish senator’s funeral

IDF withdraws from Gaza’s main hospital after two-week operation

Charities on the home front smash their targets

Eurovision boycott Cinema under investigation by Charity Commission

Palestine demonstrators heckle Holocaust survivor at Berkeley City Council meeting

Outrage as picture showing body of murdered hostage Shani Louk wins competition

Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman dies aged 90

Hamas terrorist forced me to commit sex acts on him at gunpoint, ex-hostage reveals

Jewish doctor finally gets his degree, 86 years late