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High Court blocks Westminster Holocaust memorial

The judge said there was an “enduring obligation to retain the new garden land as a public garden”

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High Court blocks Westminster Holocaust memorial

Rachel Fink has been named the new chief executive of the S & P Sephardi Community

Rachel Fink has been named the new chief executive of the S & P Sephardi Community

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The Orthodox rabbis urging greater LGBTQ inclusion

The Orthodox rabbis urging greater LGBTQ inclusion

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Dickens Museum launches new programme to address antisemitism

Dickens Museum launches new programme to address antisemitism

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New modern Jewish history course plugs gap in the classroom

From the Enlightenment to the birth of the Jewish state, the JTracks curriculum will give children a better foundation of knowledge

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April 3, 2022 16:13

New modern Jewish history course plugs gap in the classroom

'Sadistic’ man who ‘tormented’ wife is first in England to be jailed over get refusal

After Alan Alti Moher’s wife had tried to kill herself, he replied: ‘What colour do you want on your gravestone?’

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April 1, 2022 16:42

'Sadistic’ man who ‘tormented’ wife is first in England to be jailed over get refusal

JCoSS head Patrick Moriarty is to leave the cross-communal secondary school

In charge for more than 10 years, he is leaving to explore 'new endeavours'

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March 31, 2022 09:21

JCoSS head Patrick Moriarty is to leave the cross-communal secondary school

Controversial GCSE textbook on Mideast conflict to be replaced by digital alternative

New approach will 'encourage students to examine first-hand evidence' says exam board

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March 30, 2022 17:22

Controversial GCSE textbook on Mideast conflict to be replaced by digital alternative

New LSJS programme offers Talmud to girls

The Sunday morning Beit Limmud provides high-level learning for secondary school pupils

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March 27, 2022 12:31

New LSJS programme offers Talmud to girls

What Rabbi Dweck does next

The new Office of Senior Rabbi is intended to give a wider voice to the classical Sephardi tradition

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March 24, 2022 14:18

What Rabbi Dweck does next

Ofsted’s culture ‘too critical of faith schools’ says King David chairman

The Manchester school is one of few to have taken on the regulator and won

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March 24, 2022 14:01

Ofsted’s culture ‘too critical of faith schools’ says King David chairman

The militant mystic who marched with Martin Luther King

Social activism was inseparable from religious faith for Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, who died 50 years ago

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March 20, 2022 12:13

The militant mystic who marched with Martin Luther King

Yavneh College students aid Ukrainian refugees during school trip to Poland

Pupils acted when they saw people from the conflict arriving in Krakow

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March 20, 2022 11:58

Yavneh College students aid Ukrainian refugees during school trip to Poland

Ofsted: closed Golders Green nursery put children 'at risk of harm'

Little Goldies did not follow safeguarding procedures and some hygiene practices were poor

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March 20, 2022 11:49

The admissions regulator says that rabbinical references for religious obsevance on school applications can refer only to public attendance, not private worship (photo: Golders Green Synagogue, Google Maps Street View)

Charity Commission launches inquiry into Russian-run Jewish foundation

Government sanctioned three of the four trustees of Genesis Philanthropy Group earlier this week

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March 18, 2022 15:12

Russian businessman, co-founder of Alfa-Group Mikhail Fridman attends a conference of the Israeli Keren Hayesod foundation in Moscow on September 17, 2019. (Photo by Pavel Golovkin / POOL / AFP) (Photo credit should read PAVEL GOLOVKIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Opposition to S&P rule change to allow female president

The community is due to hold its AGM in the first week of April

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March 17, 2022 13:56

Opposition to S&P rule change to allow female president

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