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Israel overtakes USA as centre of largest Jewish population for the first time

But who should be counted as a Jew?

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January 8, 2025 11:15

Israelis on the beach in Tel Aviv on Yom Ha'atzmaut - Independence Day - last year (photo: Getty Images)

Outstanding in all areas: the Ofsted verdict on Sinai

Orthodox primary has developed a winning formula

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January 7, 2025 15:52

Outstanding in all areas: the young stars of Sinai school with their headteacher Juliet Lipshaw

Stephen Fry, Loyd Grossman and Tamara Finkelstein lead Jewish New Years Honours recipients

Shul comes up trumps amid cascade of New Year honours for British Jews

7 min read

December 30, 2024 22:30

Honoured in the New Year List: (from left) Elizabeth Harris-Sawczenko, Loyd Grossman, Frank Harding, Stephen Fry and Eleanor Angel

Netanyahu’s prostate surgery taking place in underground facility due to rocket fire

The Israeli PM is expected to remain in hospital for several days following today’s operation in a reinforced subterranean theatre

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December 29, 2024 12:57

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in September 2024 (Photo: Getty Images)

Israel arrests terrorist suspects at hospital ‘posing as patients’

IDF denies claims it set alight the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Northern Gaza

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December 29, 2024 10:55

Ambulances transport wounded Palestinians from the Kamal Adwan Hospital after IDF operation against terror suspects (Photo: Getty Images)

Council voices concern over yeshivah safeguarding checks

Hackney says it is aware of more than 1,500 children in out-of-school settings, most believed to be in strictly Orthodox institutions

2 min read

December 27, 2024 11:27

Stamford Hill, home to the country's largest Charedi community (Photo: Getty Images)

Ofsted compliments ‘happy’ Beit Shvidler

The Edgware primary gets a good end-of-term report from inspectors

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December 19, 2024 13:00

Celebrating Purim at Beit Shvidler Primary School

Israelis fear democracy remains in ‘grave danger’

While Israelis feel they can rely on their fellow-citizens for support, their trust in the political echelons is low

2 min read

December 18, 2024 17:36

Israeli demonstrators against the government's planned judicial overhaul in 2023 are dispersed with water cannon outside the Knesset (Photo: Getty Images)

British-born author wins Sacks book prize

Talmud teacher Gila Fine received the accolade for The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic

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December 18, 2024 12:29

New Schools Bill poses threat to traditional education, Charedi rabbi warns

The government’s Bill would make it compulsory to register children being home-schooled or taught in institutions such as yeshivot

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December 17, 2024 13:07

Protesters in Westminster last month against the forthcoming Schools Bill (Photo: Rabbinical Committee of the Traditional Charedi Chinuch)

100 per cent success for Simon Marks in SATS

The Stoke Newington school tops the honours board for Jewish primaries this year

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December 16, 2024 17:34

More than Sat-isfied: the succesful year-6 at Simon Marks Jewish Primary

The rabbi who helped to crack Israel’s Orthodox glass ceiling

Rabbi Meesh Hammer-Kossoy, one of a growing number of Orthodox women rabbis, will be teaching at this year’s Limmud Festival

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December 16, 2024 11:54

The rabbi who helped to crack Israel’s Orthodox glass ceiling

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