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Charedi Beth Din denounces Hackney councillor in get case

The Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations called Conservative Councillor Benzion Paper an ‘offender’ in the eyes of Jewish law

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Councillor Benzion Papier (Hackney Conservatives)

The chewy fruit that spells hope and resilience

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Podcast host: Dr Tanya White (tanyawhite.org)

What would Rabbi Sacks have said after October 7?

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Last summer's People of the Body Exhibition (photo: Limmud)

Limmud launches fund to support innovation

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Masorti announce new leadership trio to run movement

St Albans Masorti’s Rabbi Adam Zagoria-Moffet takes new part-time role

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January 29, 2025 15:05

King David Jewish studies head to be new rabbi of Manchester’s Yeshurun Synagogue

Rabbi Benjy and Emily Rickman have been appointed as rabbinic couple of the modern Orthodox community

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January 28, 2025 14:53

Bound for Yeshurun Synagogue: Rabbi Benjy and Emily Rickman (photo: Tanya Duman)

Only a third of British Jews think we have a long-term future here, says new CAA poll

Two-thirds of young Jews aged 18 to 24 have considered leaving the country in the last two years, the Campaign Against Antisemitism says

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January 27, 2025 10:04

Campaign Against Antisemitism march in November last year

CAA renews attack on Met Commissioner over policing of pro-Palestinian demos

Sir Mark Rowley said the campaign’s calls for banning marches ‘ignore the reality of the law’

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January 22, 2025 16:48

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley (Photo: Getty Images)

Netanyahu government has ‘tarnished’ Zionism, says new group co-founded by former JLC leader

The London Initiative, launched by Sir Mick Davis and Mike Prashker, aims to promote liberal democracy in Israel

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January 21, 2025 17:47

Good Charedi school gets even better, says Ofsted

Inspectors lavish praise on Menorah High School for Girls

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January 21, 2025 17:12

Esther Pearlman (right), head of Menorah High School for Girls, showing then Education Secretary Gillian Keegan around in 2023 (photo: courtesy)

Board of Deputies keeps mum on yeshivah regulation controversy

The representative body says it will not be commenting on government’s new education proposals

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January 21, 2025 14:18

Charedi protest against the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Board of Deputies thanks Met chief for policing of pro-Palestinian protest at the weekend

Board president Phil Rosenberg told Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley the community owed the force ‘a huge amount of appreciation’

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January 20, 2025 23:26

Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley addresses Board of Deputies on Sunday (Photo: YouTube)

High Court criticises Beth Din over decade-long, £100k father v son dispute

A beth din composed of rabbis from the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations had found in favour of father against his rabbinical son

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January 20, 2025 15:35

The Rolls Building in London, where High Court cases are heard (photo: Roger Green/Wikimedia Commons)

Charedi leader calls government moves to regulate yeshivot ‘alarming’

Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations leader pleads for new Schools Bill to leave religious institutions alone

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January 14, 2025 18:04

Stamford Hill on the night of Purim (photo: Getty Images)

Dutch Jewish population larger than thought – thanks to Israeli migration

The Netherlands community has been going through process of ‘Israelification’, says new report

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January 13, 2025 16:21

German Federal Council President Manuela Schwesig (Centre L) addresses a speech during the opening ceremony for the National Holocaust Museum, at the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam, on March 10, 2024. Eighty years after World War II, the Netherlands is poised to open its first Holocaust museum, as before the war and the Nazi occupation, the Netherlands was home to a vibrant Jewish community of around 140,000 people, mainly concentrated in Amsterdam and by the time the Holocaust was over, an estimated 75 percent -- 102,000 people -- had been murdered. (Photo by Patrick van Emst / ANP / AFP) / Netherlands OUT (Photo by PATRICK VAN EMST/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)

‘Shalom’? Or ‘Happy Jew Day’?

Two strangers wishing me ‘shalom’ prompted the realisation that we don’t measure support, only hostility

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January 13, 2025 11:28

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Charedi Beth Din denounces Hackney councillor in get case

The chewy fruit that spells hope and resilience

What would Rabbi Sacks have said after October 7?

Limmud launches fund to support innovation

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Masorti announce new leadership trio to run movement

King David Jewish studies head to be new rabbi of Manchester’s Yeshurun Synagogue

Only a third of British Jews think we have a long-term future here, says new CAA poll

CAA renews attack on Met Commissioner over policing of pro-Palestinian demos

Netanyahu government has ‘tarnished’ Zionism, says new group co-founded by former JLC leader

Good Charedi school gets even better, says Ofsted

Board of Deputies keeps mum on yeshivah regulation controversy

Board of Deputies thanks Met chief for policing of pro-Palestinian protest at the weekend

High Court criticises Beth Din over decade-long, £100k father v son dispute

Charedi leader calls government moves to regulate yeshivot ‘alarming’

Dutch Jewish population larger than thought – thanks to Israeli migration

‘Shalom’? Or ‘Happy Jew Day’?