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UK aliyah in 2025 highest in 40 years – but ‘no exodus’ says JPR

The numbers considering moving to Israel have increased since October 7, research institute finds

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New immigrants arriving from France at Ben Gurion airport last year (photo: Flash90)י

Anxious Immanuel parents wait to hear where their ‘distraught’ children can go next year

Anxious Immanuel parents wait to hear where their ‘distraught’ children can go next year

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Immanuel College, in Hertfordshire, is to close at the end of this academic year

PaJeS launches support plan for Immanuel families

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Royal visit: the Prince of Wales (as the King then was) visiting Yavneh College in 2017

Yavneh offers helping hand to Immanuel College parents

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Top performing Immanuel College to close at end of summer term

The £29,700 a year private school has suffered a drop in numbers – the government’s VAT increase is thought to have contributed

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April 14, 2026 11:23

Immanuel College, in Bushey, Hertfordshire

Jews and Muslims – a couple that has had its ups and downs

‘Children of Abraham’ is a new book that examines the historic relationship between the two Abrahamic groups

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April 10, 2026 17:02

Lag ba'Omer pilgrimage in the historic Jewish community of Djerba, Tunisia. (Photo: GettyImages)

Kanye West Wireless gigs ‘deeply concerning’, says Starmer, as Pepsi pulls sponsorship

West has notoriously glorified the Nazis and released a track titled Heil Hitler

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April 5, 2026 13:58

Kanye West, at the Grammy Awards last year (Photo: Getty)

Man arrested over ambulance arson attack as he attended court appearance of two other suspects

The latest suspect was arrested at Westminster Magistrates Court

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April 5, 2026 11:18

The burnt wreckage of Hatzola ambulances after the attack in Golders Green (Photo: Getty Images)

King Solomon head Michele Phillips to leave in May

Head says ‘now is right time to step away’

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April 1, 2026 14:42

King Solomon head: Michele Phillips

Court rejects bid to extend free school meals to Charedi independent schools

Judge said parents had choice to send children to Jewish state schools

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March 31, 2026 15:45

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer helps to serve lunch during a visit to a school in Essex last year

A summer of Yiddish planned for London

The inaugural event follows increased interest in the language

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March 30, 2026 14:50

Klezmer musicians (Photo: Getty)

‘Spiteful and obsessive’ Mill Hill man found guilty of stalking ex-partner and daughter

Andrew Rabin caused his former partner ‘serious alarm or distress’, court hears

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March 27, 2026 17:33

The Hendon court where the trial was heard (photo: David Howard/Wikimedia Commons)

More than 80 per cent of British Jews enjoy a seder

The Pesach meal remains one of the most popular Jewish observances, according to the Institute for Jewish Policy Research

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March 27, 2026 11:22

More than 80 per cent of British Jews enjoy a seder

Slight fall in applications to London Jewish secondary schools – but JFS and JCoSS more popular than ever

First-choice applications down by two per cent from last year’s record year

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March 27, 2026 10:47

Former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visits a Jewish school in London after October 7, 2023 (Photo: Getty)

Why is this Haggadah different from all others?

Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Marc Chagall and Lucian Freud are among the Jews depicted in the colourful scenes of artist Leon Fenster’s new work

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March 26, 2026 12:17

Jew-de-vivre: Leon Fenster's Haggadah has a psychedelic twist

The new Haggadah which takes us back to Egypt

Knowing about ancient Egyptian culture can deepen our appreciation of the Seder story

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March 22, 2026 11:46

Pharaoh smiting captive foes

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