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Full steam ahead as Immanuel governors give green light to ‘miracle’ rescue

Parents that led extraordinary efforts to save their children’s school look forward to ‘a powerful new chapter’

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Full steam ahead as Immanuel governors give green light to ‘miracle’ rescue

First chapter: contributors to Progressive movement's first book celebrate its launch (photo Norfolk)

Progressive Movement launches new book on Zionism

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First Humanistic siddur published in UK

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

EXCLUSIVE: Immanuel College saved from closure thanks to 11th-hour rescue plan

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Immanuel College parents lead £12.7m rescue plan after closure announcement

Efforts are understood to be well under way to secure the future of the school

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April 24, 2026 11:15

Immanuel pupils in a still from a video to raise support for Israeli hostages in Gaza after October 7

What is the communal duty to support Immanuel children?

The rabbis laid down a collective responsbility to provide for education

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April 24, 2026 09:48

Immanuel pupils in a still from a video to raise support for the hostages

Immanuel top performing Jewish school at A-level

King Solomon heads the vocational table

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April 23, 2026 12:14

Yavneh seeks £500,000 to offer ‘lifeline’ to Immanuel students

The state-aided school is looking to fund extra space to take pupils from the soon-to-close college

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April 21, 2026 15:11

Full house: Immanuel families attending Yavneh open evening

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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April 20, 2026 18:14

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

Some 300 children will have to find alternative schools in September after the college announced its closure

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April 17, 2026 12:21

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

PaJeS launches support plan for Immanuel families

JCoSS and JFS have reopened applications for their sixth forms next year to help students at the college, which is due to close in summer

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April 16, 2026 10:25

Yavneh offers helping hand to Immanuel College parents

The school said it would do what it could to take students from the college which is due to close after the summer term

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April 14, 2026 12:11

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

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)

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Full steam ahead as Immanuel governors give green light to ‘miracle’ rescue

Progressive Movement launches new book on Zionism

First Humanistic siddur published in UK

EXCLUSIVE: Immanuel College saved from closure thanks to 11th-hour rescue plan

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Immanuel College parents lead £12.7m rescue plan after closure announcement

What is the communal duty to support Immanuel children?

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Yavneh seeks £500,000 to offer ‘lifeline’ to Immanuel students

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

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

PaJeS launches support plan for Immanuel families

Yavneh offers helping hand to Immanuel College parents

Top performing Immanuel College to close at end of summer term

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

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

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