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How realistic is Nobody Wants This?

Does an intermarrying rabbi stretch the limits of believability?

4 min read

Nobody Wants This. Adam Brody as Noah in episode 101 of Nobody Wants This. Cr. Stefania Rosini/Netflix © 2024

Westcliff Charedi school gets the nod from Ofsted

Westcliff Charedi school gets the nod from Ofsted

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Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg of the New North London Synagogue

Jonathan Wittenberg to retire as New North London Senior Rabbi next year

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Immanuel College has seen a decline in numbers (Photo: Ian Jones)

Immanuel College confronts its falling numbers

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Immanuel College receives thumbs-up from inspectors

Pupils are encouraged to become ‘helpful and effective’ members of society, the Independent Schools Inspectorate says

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November 5, 2024 11:30

LONDON- UK- 13th June 2023. Immanuel College Photo by Ian Jones.

An Orthodox rabbi and Reform journalist share their dialogue over Torah

A new book shows how to conduct a heavenly argument

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November 3, 2024 11:24

Co-authors of It Takes Two to Torah Abby Pogrebin and Rabbi Dov Linzer (photo: Michael Nagle)

Disappointment at no relief from VAT charge for independent schools

New policy due to come into effect in January could force closure of some Charedi schools, educational organisation warns

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October 30, 2024 18:14

Pardes House Grammar (photo; Philafrenzy, Wikipedia Commons)

JLC chairman stands for re-election

Keith Black will be seeking a second term

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October 29, 2024 15:04

JLC chairman Keith Black (Photo: Mark Thomas)

Israel’s president honoured by JC for promoting Jewish unity

Isaac Herzog salutes the paper’s ‘iconic’ role in modern Jewish history

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October 29, 2024 09:17

Isaac Herzog receiving the JC's Am Echad award

Chief Rabbi: ‘Our support for Israel has to be unequivocal’

Rabbi Mirvis was speaking at a JC event to mark the first yahrzeit of October 7

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October 28, 2024 18:00

The Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis speaking at the JC event to mark October 7

Immanuel head is stepping down

The school’s second master has been appointed as acting head

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October 28, 2024 12:40

Immanuel head is stepping down

Smiling Stamford Hill girls charm Ofsted

Beis Yaakov Primary is rated as a good school

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October 22, 2024 11:59

Smiling Stamford Hill girls charm Ofsted

Charedi education protesters back on the streets in London

Fear that new legislation will interfere with yeshivah education is prompting a new wave of opposition

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October 22, 2024 11:41

Rabbi Hershel Gluck addresses Monday's Westminster rally organised by the Rabbinical Committee of the Traditional Charedi Chinuch

Charedi school complains to Ofsted over ‘farcical’ report

Ateres High School for Girls believes it has been unfairly penalised for not teaching about same-sex relationships

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October 21, 2024 14:31

Charedi school complains to Ofsted over ‘farcical’ report

Giant of Holocaust education Professor Yehuda Bauer mourned

The Israeli historian was one of the most influential figures in his field

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October 20, 2024 12:11

Indefatigable scholar: Professor Yehuda Bauer addressing a Holocaust conference in Sweden three years ago at the age of 95 (photo: Getty Images)

Charedim call for day of prayer in opposition to school register plan

Rabbis fear Bill proposed by Liberal Democrat peer Lord Storey will lead to interference in yeshivah education

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October 9, 2024 17:18

Protest in Stamford Hill two years ago against moves to regulate yeshivot (credit: Zevi Chesner)

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