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New Year Honours

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

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

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

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

1 min read

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

Israel arrests terrorist suspects at hospital ‘posing as patients’

1 min read

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

Council voices concern over yeshivah safeguarding checks

2 min read

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

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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

Prize-winner: Gila Fine

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

The matchmaking service with a difference

The Jewish Learning Collaborative pairs up people to study – and now it is going international

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December 16, 2024 11:52

educational matchmaker: Avidan Halivni

How the pig became a bête noire

Relations between us and the most unkosher of beasts is the subject of a captivating new history

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December 8, 2024 11:20

Keeping clear of kosher tables: a pig out on a stroll in France (Photo:Getty Images)

Three Jewish comprehensives in Times top 10 this year

King David Liverpool is the best North-West comprehensive in the newspaper’s annual Parent Power list.

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December 6, 2024 13:30

Lord Winston on a visit to King David High School

Charedi girls again top the GCSE Jewish school charts

Five Jewish schools make the top 100 for academic progress nationally

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December 6, 2024 12:03

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

Wolfson Hillel gives a warm welcome to some new Israeli friends

New twinning programme hopes to deepen pupil’s ties with Israel

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December 5, 2024 18:13

Children from London's Wolfson Hillel and Israel's King Solomon discuss the secret of Jewish survival (photo: Julia Glekin)

VAT on private education ‘could force closure of strictly Orthodox schools’, fear leaders

Pupils usually come from families who are already struggling financially

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December 4, 2024 12:39

Donna Thomas (second from right), head of Hackney early years, visiting a girls school in Stamford Hill (Image: Chinuch UK)

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