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South Hampstead Synagogue

Rabbinic couple who turned around a shul are stepping down after 40 years

Rabbi Shlomo and Rebbetzin Dr Lynndy Levin created a ‘warm, non-judgmental’ community at South Hampstead Synagogue

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Rabbi Shlomo Levin and Rebbetzin Dr Lynndy Levin are stepping down from the helm of South Hampstead Synagogue after 40 years (Photo: Robert Bray)

Board presidential candidates debate the ‘Islamicisation of British politics’

Board presidential candidates debate the ‘Islamicisation of British politics’

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King David Birmingham's school sign

Jewish school with Muslim majority ranked outstanding for Jewish studies

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Independent Jewish Day School pupils in front of welcome mural

Independent Jewish Day School rated outstanding for religious studies

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Charedi schools look forward to major boost over plans to remove entry cap

Faith free schools can only choose half their pupils on the basis of religion – but the government is proposing to remove the cap

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May 7, 2024 10:52

Pupils at Lubavitch Senior Girls, a faith school in Stamford Hill

Let’s Talk Schools: what lies behind the yellow star protests?

A bill to register children out of school is seen as a threat to Strictly Orthodox yeshivot

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May 5, 2024 10:19

Protest against out-of-school register bill in Westminser

Once in a generation: the new Reform High Holy Day machzor

Ten years in the making, the new prayerbook is intended to serve congregations for the next 40 years

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May 5, 2024 10:16

Once in a generation: the new Reform High Holy Day machzor

New academic task force grapples with campus antisemitism

The Intra-Communal Professorial Group will work to enforce ‘zero tolerance’ of antisemitism in UK universities

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May 2, 2024 09:02

Leading the fight against campus antisemitism: Professor Anthony Julius

Chief Rabbi backs move to lift entry cap on religious free schools

Schools Minister Damian Hinds says the government wants to move ‘at pace’

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May 1, 2024 17:20

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis (Getty Images)

Government plan to lift entry cap on religious free schools

At present free schools can select only 50 per cent of pupils on basis of fatih

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May 1, 2024 08:47

Etz Chaim Primary in Mill Hill: one of the new wave of Jewish free schools

Charedi campaigners protest against ‘cultural genocide’

Defenders of traditional yeshivot return to Westminister to demonstrate against moves to register students

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April 26, 2024 12:22

Charedi protesters in Westminster against a bill to register children not in school

Bloom’s Viennas switch to Manchester supervision

Kosher food manufacturers Gilberts are moving to a new label – not for the first time

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April 22, 2024 09:10

A legendary kosher sausage: Bloom's Viennas

Rabbi Halpern pleads not guilty to alleged sexual assault

The Chasidic rabbi has made his first court appearance since being charged

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April 19, 2024 10:47

Rabbi Chaim Halpern

Yad Vashem UK schools contest will honour victims of October 7

Children are being asked to design a Sefer Torah cover

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April 18, 2024 11:32

Visitors pay their respect to the victims of October 7 at the Nova Music Festival site sixth months after the massacre (Getty Images)

‘Amazing’ Charedi school in Manchester ranked outstanding by Ofsted

Pupils at the Yesoiday Hatorah Girls’ Academy bound in to school every morning with ‘sheer joy’

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April 18, 2024 10:47

‘Amazing’ Charedi school in Manchester ranked outstanding by Ofsted

Why is this book different from all others? Inside the most opulent haggadah ever seen

The exquisitely fashioned tome features five types of gold and tips the scales at 5.5kg

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April 17, 2024 10:51

Art deco with an Egyptian twist: Illustrations of four of the ten plagues from Roni Weiss's spectacular Haggadah

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