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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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