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‘I realised very quickly that my husband was the one’

The JC speaks to chef Denise Phillips, founder of Date on a Plate, as it celebrates 25 years – and couples who have found love at her events

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Laurence and Lauren Shenker, who met at a Date on a Plate event (Photo: courtesy)

Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason playing at the Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony 2025 (Photo: Holocaust Memorial Day Trust/Sam Churchill)

Music competition launched to mark Holocaust Memorial Day

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The teams in the interfaith football match in Cumbria (Photo: Jonny Gios)

Interfaith football match achieves goal of ‘bringing people together through sport’

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Zac Bates Fisher (right), who is overseeing the new MPJ student ambassador programme, with students at a recent event in Bristol

Progressive Judaism appoints campus ambassadors

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Author of ‘The Renoir Girls’ tells their story to a captivated audience

Catherine Ostler was in conversation with fellow historian Dominic Green at an event hosted by the JC

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July 17, 2026 11:51

Catherine Ostler speaks to Dominic Green about the Renoir Girls at a JC event

‘Lipreading is far more than recognising words. It is about friendship, community and everyday life’

Participants of the Jewish Deaf Association’s increasingly popular lip-reading classes speak to the JC about how they have helped them reconnect with the world

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July 14, 2026 13:01

Gabbie teaching JDA's lip-reading classes (Photo: JDA)

‘Losing a child breaks you, and you remain broken,’ say parents of October 7 victim Jake Marlowe

Lisa and Michael were speaking in front of an audience at the Nova exhibition in London

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July 13, 2026 16:34

Michael and Lisa Marlowe speaking about their son, Jake Marlowe, at the Nova exhibition in London (Photo: Minnie Peters)

‘You give me hope’ Chief Rabbi tells young HET ambassadors

Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis was speaking at the annual HET Ambassador Conference earlier this week

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July 10, 2026 10:19

Hundreds from across the country joined the Holocaust Educational Trust Ambassador Conference, 2026 (Photo: HET)

British Sign Language being used in Board’s Commission on Disability Inclusion

This marks the first time that the Board of Deputies is using BSL in a commission

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July 10, 2026 09:14

Josh Malinsky preparing for his bar mitzvah at East London & Essex Liberal Synagogue (ELES), with help from his teacher Vicki Ashmore, a BSL communicator

Lord and Lady Mendelsohn leave Norwood after 11 years’ co-presidency

‘It has been a privilege to walk alongside the people of Norwood’

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July 9, 2026 18:06

Lord and Lady Mendelsohn (centre) with Justine Harris (left) and Naomi Dickson of Norwood (Photo: Godfrey Dyan)

CST, Shomrim and Hatzola to receive prestigious Barnet honour

The charities have been praised by the council as being ‘the best of Barnet’

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July 9, 2026 12:14

A Hatzola ambulance (Photo: Getty Images)

Holocaust survivor discovers his long-lost barmitzvah Sefer Torah in Brondesbury Park Shul

Kurt Marx last read from the Sefer Torah in September 1938, just two months before Kristallnacht, when the scroll was saved from destruction in Cologne

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July 8, 2026 15:02