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Good Charedi school gets even better, says Ofsted

Inspectors lavish praise on Menorah High School for Girls

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

Charedi protest against the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Board of Deputies keeps mum on yeshivah regulation controversy

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Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley addresses Board of Deputies on Sunday (Photo: YouTube)

Board of Deputies thanks Met chief for policing of pro-Palestinian protest at the weekend

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The Rolls Building in London, where High Court cases are heard (photo: Roger Green/Wikimedia Commons)

High Court criticises Beth Din over decade-long, £100k father v son dispute

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Charedi leader calls government moves to regulate yeshivot ‘alarming’

Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations leader pleads for new Schools Bill to leave religious institutions alone

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January 14, 2025 18:04

Stamford Hill on the night of Purim (photo: Getty Images)

Dutch Jewish population larger than thought – thanks to Israeli migration

The Netherlands community has been going through process of ‘Israelification’, says new report

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January 13, 2025 16:21

German Federal Council President Manuela Schwesig (Centre L) addresses a speech during the opening ceremony for the National Holocaust Museum, at the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam, on March 10, 2024. Eighty years after World War II, the Netherlands is poised to open its first Holocaust museum, as before the war and the Nazi occupation, the Netherlands was home to a vibrant Jewish community of around 140,000 people, mainly concentrated in Amsterdam and by the time the Holocaust was over, an estimated 75 percent -- 102,000 people -- had been murdered. (Photo by Patrick van Emst / ANP / AFP) / Netherlands OUT (Photo by PATRICK VAN EMST/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)

‘Shalom’? Or ‘Happy Jew Day’?

Two strangers wishing me ‘shalom’ prompted the realisation that we don’t measure support, only hostility

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January 13, 2025 11:28

Jim, from Friday Night Dinner

Chief Rabbi backs mandatory reporting of child abuse

Rabbis could face sanctions if they do not report allegations under new proposals

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January 8, 2025 17:00

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper (Photo: Getty Images)

The gift that reminds a soldier how close he came to death

The Chanukah gift made for Gilad Aviad contains the metal that almost killed him in Gaza

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January 8, 2025 11:57

Haunting memento: artist Roni Weiss with Gilad Aviad holding the dreidel incorporating the piece of shrapnel that came so close to taking the soldier’s life

Surge in British Jews emigrating to Israel

l Latest figures show that numbers making Aliyah doubled last year amid historic levels of antisemitism at home

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January 8, 2025 11:42

Warren and Leah Phillips with daughters Evie and Rosie arrived in Israel from Manchester to start their new lives in August 2024 (Photo: Warren Phillips)

Protest against UK yeshivah regulation staged in New York

Proposals to register children being taught outside school settings are due to be debated in Parliament on Wednesday

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January 8, 2025 11:23

Protest against UK yeshivah regulation staged in New York

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

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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)

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