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Charity Commission extends inquiry into Orthodox charities

The watchdog is investigating the cashing of cheques worth more than £20 million

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Learning for all: students at Bina

Why secular Israelis are turning to Talmud

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Rabbi Rebecca Birk and Attorney General Richard Hermer (Photo: Graham's Photos)

Lord Hermer: ‘My world view was fuelled by my Jewish values’

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Members of the Movement for Progressive Judaism professional team. Rabbi Josh Levy (left) and Rabbi Charley Baginsky (right) (Photo: Graham's Photos)

Progressive Judaism reveals £2.2m in donations following launch

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Jewish leaders welcome lifting of two-child benefit cap

The policy had a disproportionate impact on Jewish community, they said

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December 1, 2025 11:25

A woman pushing a pram in the Stamford Hill (Photo: Getty Images)

Board of Deputies cuts suspensions of two members involved in FT Gaza War letter

Philip Goldenberg and Robert Stone can return to the Board next month after making a ‘suitable apology’

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November 27, 2025 15:47

A copy of the Financial Times (Getty Images)

I have just had my bat mitzvah… at the age of 33

Sascha Lavin had little Jewish upbringing but became determined to embrace her religious heritage as an adult

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November 23, 2025 11:36

Reading the Torah: Sascha at her bat mitzvah with LJS's Rabbi Igor Zinkov

Menorah High on top again in GCSE league tables

The strictly Orthodox girls’ school was the highest performing among Jewish schools

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November 21, 2025 13:20

Esther Pearlman (right), head of Menorah High School for Girls, showing then Education Secretary Gillian Keegan around in 2023 (photo: courtesy)

I never intended to be a rabbi: How Rabbis Shlomo Levin and Joseph Dweck found their pulpit

Two leading Orthodox rabbis revealed how they came to accept their vocation

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November 17, 2025 11:28

Rabbi Joseph Dweck in conversation with Rabbi Shlomo Levin (Photo: Bobby Bray)

You can’t always keep politics out of the pulpit

Rabbis can’t be expected to shy away from contentious issues

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November 16, 2025 11:54

Zohran Mamdani (centre), the radical Democrat who was elected Mayor of New York earlier this month (photo: Getty Images)

Gateshead elects its new rabbinic leader

Rav Yisroel Mantel won almost unanimous support on Thursday

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November 14, 2025 10:53

Gateshead elects its new rabbinic leader

Applications to London Jewish secondary schools expected to peak in 2026

Demand rose for places this year – and could be even higher for next year

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November 6, 2025 13:51

Oversubscribed: JFS (school website)

New York rabbi all set to fill the Gateshead void

Rav Yisroel Mantel is due to visit the Tyneside community at the weekend

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November 5, 2025 12:50

Gateshead Yeshivah (Google Street View)

Limmud Ukraine shows Jewish life is ‘unbreakable’

The city of Lviv played host to a three-day festival of Jewish learning and culture at the weekend

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November 3, 2025 15:06

Indomitable spirit: Limmud Ukraine 2025 (photo: Boris Bukhman)

The biblical assassination that predated the death of Yitzhak Rabin

The 30th anniversary of the Israeli PM’s assassination is being commemorated this weekend

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November 2, 2025 09:38

Israelis mourn their murdered prime minister days after he was shot at a peace rally on November 4 1995 (photo: Getty Images)

World Zionist Congress rejects Smotrich settlement plan

Resolutions passed at the assembly of world Jewry show success for the left

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October 31, 2025 14:13

A view over the area covered by the proposed E1 settlement project (Getty Images)

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