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Manchester’s King David Primary rated outstanding for Jewish studies

The school also enjoys top rating from Ofsted

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Manchester’s King David Primary rated outstanding for Jewish studies

Dame Louise Ellman at the Jewish Labour Movement Conference in 2018 (Photo: Getty Images)

Dame Louise Ellman accepts new role at Board of Deputies

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Rabbi David Meyer, chief executive of PaJeS Photo: Twitter/X)

PaJeS welcomes decision to ditch Ofsted headline grades

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Rabbi Elia (left) and René Trabelsi, Tunisia’s minister for tourism at the time, in Maida Vale in 2019

Sephardi community mourns Rabbi Israel Elia

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How women rose to Orthodox synagogue leadership

Cautious progress rather than rapid change has been the order of the day

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August 25, 2024 08:52

How women rose to Orthodox synagogue leadership

Thumbs-up from Ofsted for Cheshire nursery

Children enjoy an ambitious curriculum and show independence skills at mealtimes

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August 23, 2024 11:23

Snow business: children at North Cheshire Jewish Nursery enjoy a wintry day

Kisharon Langdon to close Manchester campuses after poor Ofsted

Charity says efforts are under way to secure alternative placements for students

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August 23, 2024 10:40

Kisharon Langdon to close Manchester campuses after poor Ofsted

Who do you think you are? Limmud can help

A genealogy project is one of a number of initiatives launched by graduates of Limmud’s Young Leadership programme this year

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August 21, 2024 15:10

Orthodox Jewish boys study the Hebrew Talmud in the Jewish area of Warsaw, 1938. (Photo by Keystone Features/Getty Images)

Back to the land: the radical new group promoting ‘earth-based’ Judaism

Devon-based Miknaf Ha’aretz is looking to a build a different model of Jewish community from the suburban standard

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August 18, 2024 08:47

Judaism in the wild: Miknaf Ha'aretz shemittah retreat

Rabbi returns to Leeds shul after board gender row

Dayan Shalom Kupperman had been concerned that a majority female board would not comply with Jewish law

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August 13, 2024 10:02

Dayan Shalom Kupperman of Etz Chaim Synagogue, Leeds

Irish court says that rabbi in prison must receive kosher food

Rabbi Jonathan Abraham is in custody accused of carrying out illegal circumcisions

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August 11, 2024 10:24

Rabbi Jonathan Abraham was arrested in Dublin (Photo: Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

Israel’s ‘precision strike’ on Hamas command centre in Gaza school condemned by Lammy

IDF said attack killed 31 terrorists while limiting civilian deaths

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August 11, 2024 09:42

Palestinians check the damage in the al-Zahra school used as a refuge by displaced Palestinians after it was hit by an Israeli strike. The IDF said that 19 terrorists had been killed. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP) (Photo by OMAR AL-QATTAA/AFP via Getty Images)

Questions over women’s leadership triggers dispute at Leeds synagogue

Etz Chaim rabbi says woman can be president as long as male honorary officers have controlling majority

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August 8, 2024 08:04

Dayan Shalom Kupperman of Etz Chaim Synagogue, Leeds

‘Things have changed in our community forever’

Claudia Mendoza, CEO of the Jewish Leadership Council, speaks to the JC about life after October 7

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August 2, 2024 12:12

Claudia Mendoza, CEO of the JLC, talks about the impact of October 7 and its aftermath on the UK Jewish community (Photo: JLC)

Carry on Shabbat: The normalisation of the eruv

Even those once implacably opposed to the idea now argue they don’t go far enough

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August 1, 2024 06:54

Carry on Shabbat: The normalisation of the eruv

Progressive leaders ‘reassured’ by government’s commitment to Israel

Progressive Judaism stressed diversity of views within Jewish community in meeting with ministers

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July 31, 2024 10:35

Progressive Judaism leaders Rabbis Charley Baginsky and Josh Levy meet Middle East Minister Hamish Falconer

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