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The mystical Seder with roots in Israel

Tu Bishvat, The New Year for Trees, which falls next Thursday, offers plenty of scope for creative celebration,

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it is traditional to eat 15 fruits on Tu Bishvat (Unsplash.com)

Second candidate for Board of Deputies presidency declares

Second candidate for Board of Deputies presidency declares

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Helping young Israelis: a half-term camp arranged at Alma Primary School

More than 100 Israeli children taken into Jewish schools in the UK

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Yavneh College, whose motto Olam Chesed Yiboneh, A World Built on Kindness

Yavneh College loses outstanding rank but sixth form retains highest Ofsted grade

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Let’s talk schools: how will new Ofsted boss respond to clamour for reform?

The Charedi community in particular will be keeping a close eye on what the inspection service does next

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January 12, 2024 10:28

Ofsted's new chief inspector: Sir Martyn Oliver

Hasmo girls earn top marks for Jewish studies

Inspectors rate the Orthodox secondary school’s religious programme as outstanding in all areas

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January 11, 2024 17:35

Centre of excellence; studying at Hasmonean Girls

Census uncovers increase in British secular Jews

But the vast majority of the community still identify as religious, writes Simon Rocker

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January 11, 2024 15:32

LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 26: Protestors wear flags of Israel on their backs as they march against anti-Semitism on November 26, 2023 in London, England. The ongoing war between Israel and Hamas has sparked a wave of protests across Europe, and heightened concerns over anti-Semitism among Jewish communities. (Photo by Alishia Abodunde/Getty Images)

Ivrit a strength at outstanding Simon Marks

Other schools could learn about teaching the language from the Hackney primary, inspectors say

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January 11, 2024 15:02

Simon Marks Primary in Stoke Newington

Meet the trailblazer who was the UK’s first woman rabbi

Jackie Tabick overcame prejudice to be accepted and changed the face of the British Jewish community

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January 11, 2024 12:34

Rabbi Jackie Tabick (Photo: Gary Manhine)

Menorah Foundation’s outstanding Jewish studies praised for creativity

’Exciting’ programme attracts increased Sunday morning attendance

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January 11, 2024 12:03

Playground mural at Menorah Foundation School

Charedi campaigner warns against moves to register children not in school

MP wants local councils to keep list of children taught at home, in yeshivot or other out-of-school establishments

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January 10, 2024 17:15

UK Charedim protest against the Schools Bill - which advanced plans to regulate yeshivot - in Westminister, June 2022

Chabad’s tunnel disagreement is part of a schism that goes back decades

The recent disagreement is part of a long-running dispute over whether the Rebbe was the Messiah

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January 10, 2024 15:02

Hasidic rabbis gather for the annual group photo of the International Conference of Chabad Lubavitch Emissaries, in front of Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on November 20, 2022. (Photo by Yuki IWAMURA / AFP) (Photo by YUKI IWAMURA/AFP via Getty Images)

UK Jewish population rise higher than first reported

Revised figures now include those who identify as ethnically but not religiously Jewish

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December 29, 2023 10:08

English and Welsh Jewry increased by 5.7 per cent from 2011 to 2021, rather than 2.4 per cent as earlier reported

The making of a super-shul

A new book charts the rise of one of the UK’s biggest synagogues, New North London

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December 28, 2023 10:25

Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg of the New North London Synagogue

Rabbi Sacks for all the family

A new edition of his sidrah commentaries is designed to encourage family discussion

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December 22, 2023 16:25

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

Can drugs bring you closer to God?

If psychonaut and observant Jew Madison Margolin had her way she’d be leading Limmudniks in a mushroom ceremony

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December 22, 2023 16:08

Madison_Margolin (Photo: Nechama Jacobson)

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