Simon Rocker

Multi-faith trips to Auschwitz

Christian and Muslim leaders joined the Chief Rabbi for a historic visit to Auschwitz

What’s the link between Obama and Kabbalah?

A treasury of sacred cloth

A new Jewish Museum exhibition that has just opened in London features the mantles in which the Torah is dressed.

Commons queries over Hebrew A-level

MP raises questions in parliament after a pupil from a Jewish school was denied a university place because they would not recognise her modern Hebrew A-level.

JNF seeks cash from donor who ‘underwrote its legal fees’

The JNF tries to recover money from a donor who it says agreed to meet the legal costs of its past dispute with Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael.

Mixed choir hits sour note with rabbis

The days of the last mixed choir at an Orthodox synagogue in Britain look to be numbered.

Downturn ‘will fuel antisemitism’

British Jewish leaders warn that the worsening economy could lead to a rise in antisemitism and more support for the BNP.

Chiefs groom UK Jewry’s next leaders

A review is to be carried out into the future funding of British Jewry.

Was Guy Fawkes a heimishe hero?

Airline bans student in passport photo dispute

A yeshivah student was stopped from taking an Israir flight because the security officer said he did not look like his passport photo.

Birth figures reveal strength of the family

More British Jews are being born than are dying each year, according to the Board of Deputies.

Rabbi David Goldberg and a Question of God