Rosa Doherty

Lord Dubs delivers refugee petition to Downing Street

More than 50,000 people have signed the petition condemning the government’s decision to cap the number of children allowed to enter Britain at 350.

Stereo pioneer given posthumous Grammy

Alan Dower Blumlein, whose invention transformed audio technology, is to be posthumously honoured by a technical Grammy award, at a ceremony later this year.

Hitler Valentine’s card distributed on university campus

The card displayed an image of Adolf Hitler alongside the words “my love 4 u burns like 6,000 Jews”, according to Central Michigan Life, a student newspaper.

Being observant in a pressure job

The wilder excesses of the Trump administration seem to fall on days when religious commitments deprive the President of Jared Kushner's steadying hand. How do other Jews in high-pressure roles manage their time?

Government drops pledge to aid 3,000 child refugees

Campaigners expressed their shock at a Home Office announcement that only an additional 150 lone child refugees are to be brought to Britain, bringing the total number let in so far to 350.

Jewish charity urges PM not to leave ECHR

Holocaust survivor Chaim Ferster dies at 94

When the Nazis invaded Poland, Mr Ferster was forced from his home in the city of Sosnowic and sent to camps including Buchenwald and Auschwitz, where he suffered malnutrition and typhus.

Jewish Care honours Rantzen and Webber

Tel Aviv has launched the first municipal digital service for dogs

Digi-Dog, a membership card system for dogs has been set up by Israel’s Tel Aviv municipality, was designed to equip dogs and their owners with the tools they need to navigate the city.

Two arrested over ‘false imprisonment’ of traffic warden

Two men have been arrested on suspicion of affray, actual bodily harm and false imprisonment following the incident last month in Hackney, north-east London.

How friendship saved me from cancer

A survey by Macmillan Cancer Support reveals 43 per cent of cancer sufferers could not have got through their experience without the support of their friends.

Parkinson’s sufferer fights for NHS support