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Palestine Action lawyer avoids contempt of court charge

Rajiv Menon was accused of misleading the jury, who failed to return a verdict in the initial trial, before the activist he defended was convicted at a retrial

‘I come from a close-knit community, and I try to recreate that each day for our clients’

Sonya Levin, who has helped to organise a fashion show in aid of Homeless Action Barnet (HAB) tells the JC about a poncho made from an air mattress and a dress created from an emergency blanket

Universities failing to protect pro-Israel students from hate

Calls for antizionism to be treated as a hate crime and parliamentary inquiry after publication of devastating report

White House Jewish event ending just before Shabbat a ‘sad oversight’, say invitees

‘It’s a rare misstep from the Trump administration that is usually better about including Orthodox Jews at their events,’ an invitee told JNS

Man who firebombed Boulder pro-hostage march sentenced to life without parole

Mohamed Sabry Soliman was handed a 2,128-year prison term after pleading guilty to 100 charges, including first-degree murder

LA Jewish groups criticise ‘woefully inadequate’ plea deal for man who killed pro-Israel protester

Loay Abdel Fattah Alnaji pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in relation to his fatal altercation with 69-year-old Paul Kessler in 2023

Revealed: Israelis invent world’s first personal plane that’s ‘easier to drive than a car’

The aircraft is a souped-up version of the cheap drone you can buy your kids for Chanukah

Israel’s First Lady: ‘There has been a dark cloud over all of us – but we Jews understand that we are one community’

IDF soldier jailed for holding cigarette in mouth of statue of Mary

The incident is the latest in a string of rows between Israel and the global Christian community