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Youth workers challenged at UJIA education conference

Event features a broad cast of presenters from a Golders Green rebbetzin to a Palestinian Israeli artist

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Telling different stories: the UJIA conference for youth workers.

Bidding for glory: Board presidential candidates (from left) Phil Rosenberg, Sheila Gewolb, Michael Ziff, Amanda Bowman

Meet the power players: Who’s standing to lead the Board of Deputies – and what are they offering?

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How Zoom Judaism led me to train as a rabbi

How Zoom Judaism led me to train as a rabbi

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Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry figures have indicated that over 30,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks. (Photo by Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images)

Netanyahu approves Rafah operation

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Yellow star protest against move to register yeshivah students

Charedi activists demonstrate outside Parliament against new Private Member’s Bill

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March 15, 2024 14:58

Protest against out-of-school register bill in Westminser

Children will ‘pay price’ says head as talks to avert strike fail

King Solomon head ‘in dismay’ as disruption looms next week

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March 14, 2024 17:45

King Solomon head: Michele Phillips

London Jewish Forum co-chair Andrew Gilbert changes mind and will contest Board of Deputies vice-presidency

Board announces candidates who will stand for office in May 12 election

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March 14, 2024 16:54

Andrew Gilbert

Schama: ‘The Jewish world is in this extraordinary situation of being doubly de-housed’

Historian Sir Simon Schama speaks to the JC after his appearance in Book Week

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March 14, 2024 15:36

Schama: ‘The Jewish world is in this extraordinary situation of being doubly de-housed’

Yavneh College students win TfL competition

Green team’s scheme to turn bus tops into gardens captivated judges

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March 12, 2024 15:54

Winners of this year's TfL Innovate contest: the team from Yavneh College

King Solomon ‘likely to close’ for eight days as teachers threaten strike action

The dispute is over teacher accountability and lesson observations

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March 12, 2024 15:09

Michele Phillips

Strictly Orthodox school launches crackdown on vaping

Head warns problem needs to be tackled across the community

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March 12, 2024 12:03

Unholy smoke: school warns of vape problem (Getty Images)

Revealed: the prospective new rabbi of Kinloss

Rabbi Yoni Birnbaum is set to return to the United Synagogue as the senior rabbi of Finchley

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March 11, 2024 14:49

Finchley bound: Rabbi Yoni Birnbaum

Why I davened at 200 different places in a year

Michael Ziff set himself a personal challenge during his year of saying Kaddish

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March 8, 2024 14:56

Praying at the site of the Supernova Festival massacre near Kibbutz Re'im

St Albans rabbi and Muslim leader honoured for promoting interfaith harmony in schools

‘We have aimed to show kids Jews and Muslims are not enemies’

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March 7, 2024 17:09

(from left): Akhtar Zaman and Rabbi Adam Zagoria-Moffet with their awards from St Albans Mayor Anthony Rowlands

Leading rabbi warns of battle to safeguard shechita in Europe after court ruling

Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt calls for concerted political efforts in defence of religious freedom

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March 7, 2024 14:41

Rabbi Dayan Goldschmidt

What does the Bible say about polyamory?

Rabbi Dr Kahn-Harris offers an alternative view of relationships in the Book of Ruth

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March 7, 2024 13:16

Philip Hermogenes-Calderon's depiction of Ruth and Naomi, 1886 (Yale Centre for British Art)

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