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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‘Words are empty. We want action’: Londoners mark hostage Kfir Bibas’ first birthday

Speakers outside the Red Cross offices, including Hen Mazzig, demanded the release of the hostages, while commemorating ‘the saddest birthday in the world’

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A gift box for Kfir Bibas's first birthday sat beneath the stage at the demonstration outside the Red Cross office in London on Thursday evening. (Photo: Eliana Jordan)

Naomi Feil transformed the field of dementia care with her validation method. (Photo courtesy of Vicki de Klerk-Rubin)

The pioneering gerontologist who fled Nazi Germany and revolutionised dementia care

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Kfir Bibas, the youngest hostage taken by Hamas, turned one in captivity on 18 January 2024.

Hamas’s youngest hostage spends 1st birthday in captivity

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Chagall's "L'homme en prière" (left) and Picasso's "Tête" were stolen from an art collector in Tel Aviv in 2010. This week Belgian police have recovered the paintings from a cellar in Antwerp. (Handout/Police Judiciaire Fédérale Namur)

Picasso and Chagall paintings stolen from Tel Aviv in 2010 discovered in Antwerp

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Stranger Things star Noah Schapp says his views on Israel-Hamas war have been ‘misconstrued’

The Jewish actor was criticised for posing with ‘Zionism is sexy’ stickers in November

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January 17, 2024 19:09

HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - AUGUST 10: Noah Schnapp attends Variety Power of Young Hollywood at NeueHouse Los Angeles on August 10, 2023 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Mia Khalifa films herself confronting Israeli woman in Miami

The anti-Israel influencer filmed a Jewish woman saying ‘Am Yisrael Chai’ and chastised her and her son for ‘waiting for the bus’

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January 17, 2024 11:38

Mia Khalifa films herself confronting Israeli woman in Miami

Victim in Ra’anana attack identified as 79-year-old Edna Blustein

Blustein was among at least 17 others to be attacked in a car-ramming and stabbing incident on Monday

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January 16, 2024 17:05

Victim in Ra’anana attack identified as 79-year-old Edna Blustein

Father of ex-hostage Emily Hand launches furious attack on ‘idiots’ who believe Israel is an apartheid state

Thomas Hand spoke on Piers Morgan Uncensored to mark 100 days since the start of Israel-Hamas war

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January 16, 2024 13:46

Former hostage Emily Hand, 9, comforts her father during an interview with Piers Morgan on 15 January 2024.

Turkey to provide evidence against Israel in South Africa’s ICJ case, says Erdogan

FM Israel Katz invokes Armenian genocide in rebuttal to Turkish president’s accusations of genocide

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January 15, 2024 17:18

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan speaks as he announces Murat Kurum as his ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) candidate in Istanbul's upcoming mayoral election in March, in Istanbul on January 7, 2024. Murat Kurum will represent Erdogan's Islamic conservative Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the March 31 municipal elections in which control of Turkey's main cities will be up for grabs. The secular opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) seized back control of Istanbul for the first time since Erdogan ruled the city as mayor in the 1990s in watershed 2019 polls. (Photo by YASIN AKGUL / AFP) (Photo by YASIN AKGUL/AFP via Getty Images)

UN to send special envoy on sexual violence to investigate Hamas brutality in Israel

Pramila Patten is due to meet with survivors and released hostages in Israel late this month

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January 12, 2024 12:18

Pramila Patten, the UN special representative for sexual violence in conflict, will visit Israel later this month to investigate allegations of rape and mutilation that took place on Oct. 7.

Harvard to run course on ‘settler colonialism’ at Palestinian university that glorified ‘martyrs’ after October 7

Birzeit University in the West Bank counts terrorists among its alumni

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January 11, 2024 16:17

Palestinian students supporting the Islamic Hamas movement wave the movement's flag as they celebrate a victory in student elections at Birzeit University on the outskirts of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on May 19, 2022. - Hamas's Al Wafaa Islamic bloc won 28 of the 51 seats on the student council at Birzeit University, marking the first time Islamist-aligned candidates have gained control of the body. (Photo by ABBAS MOMANI / AFP) (Photo by ABBAS MOMANI/AFP via Getty Images)

The best memes of the Chabad New York tunnel incident

The JC rounded up some of the internet’s finest comedic reactions to the story of the illegal excavation at Chabad HQ in NYC

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January 10, 2024 14:25

A still from the footage captured at Chabad Lubavitch HQ in New York City on 9 January 2024 shows a Hasidic man being apprehended by NYPD. The story has inspired both prejudicial and playful memes online. (Photo: screen capture via X/FrumTikTok)

Anti-Israel MP Zarah Sultana calls for expulsion of Israeli ambassador in House of Commons

The leftwing MP accused Hotovely of ‘genocidal rhetoric’

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January 9, 2024 16:07

Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely on LBC 3 January, 2023. (Screen capture via LBC)

New Hamas footage shows how terrorists breached Israeli border unchecked on October 7

New footage aired on Israeli TV shows Hamas’ Nukhba militants seamlessly breaking through four levels of security

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January 9, 2024 13:22

New GoPro footage from Oct. 7 reveals the ease with which Hamas militants were able to cross the four levels of defence at the southern Israeli border with Gaza. (Photo by FADEL SENNA/AFP via Getty Images)

Families of teenage girls still captive in Gaza make desperate plea for their release

Five girls remain in Gaza over 90 days after being kidnapped from Nahal Oz

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January 8, 2024 17:52

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - JANUARY 06: People hold signs and photos of hostages as they take part in a rally calling for the release of all hostages held in the Gaza Strip on January 6, 2024 in Tel Aviv, Israel. More than 100 Israeli hostages captured on Oct. 7 remain held in Gaza by Hamas and other militant groups, according to Israeli authorities. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

Senior Hezbollah commander killed in alleged Israeli airstrike in Lebanon

Wissam Al Tawil is the most senior Hezbollah militant to be killed in latest escalation linked to Israel-Hamas conflict

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January 8, 2024 17:23

Senior Hezbollah commander Wissam Al Tawil was killed in an airstrike on 8 January 2023.

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Eliana Jordan

Latest from Eliana Jordan

‘Words are empty. We want action’: Londoners mark hostage Kfir Bibas’ first birthday

The pioneering gerontologist who fled Nazi Germany and revolutionised dementia care

Hamas’s youngest hostage spends 1st birthday in captivity

Picasso and Chagall paintings stolen from Tel Aviv in 2010 discovered in Antwerp

More from Eliana Jordan

Stranger Things star Noah Schapp says his views on Israel-Hamas war have been ‘misconstrued’

Mia Khalifa films herself confronting Israeli woman in Miami

Victim in Ra’anana attack identified as 79-year-old Edna Blustein

Father of ex-hostage Emily Hand launches furious attack on ‘idiots’ who believe Israel is an apartheid state

Turkey to provide evidence against Israel in South Africa’s ICJ case, says Erdogan

UN to send special envoy on sexual violence to investigate Hamas brutality in Israel

Harvard to run course on ‘settler colonialism’ at Palestinian university that glorified ‘martyrs’ after October 7

The best memes of the Chabad New York tunnel incident

Anti-Israel MP Zarah Sultana calls for expulsion of Israeli ambassador in House of Commons

New Hamas footage shows how terrorists breached Israeli border unchecked on October 7

Families of teenage girls still captive in Gaza make desperate plea for their release

Senior Hezbollah commander killed in alleged Israeli airstrike in Lebanon