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Dominic Green

Only in America? Podhoretz, Reiner and the Jewish journey

Their lives couldn’t have been more different – expect for the ways in which they resembled each other

By Dominic Green

4 min read
Norman Podhoretz and Rob Reiner (Image: Getty)
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Nicholas Lezard

By Nicholas Lezard

Star Trek boldly built the most Jewish and diverse ship in space

What made the show so groundbreaking was its insistence on inclusiveness and tolerance

3 min read
Mourners gather in memory of the victims of the terror attack at Bondi Beach, in Sydney on December 15, 2025. (Image: Getty)
Nick Cohen

By Nick Cohen

The unforgivable failure of liberals to confront anti-Zionists

The demand for the abolition of Israel is not just a threat to Jews but has been a provable disaster for the Palestinian cause for over 70 years

4 min read
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Elisa Bray

By Elisa Bray

How many Britons know Jewish kids have to drill for terror threats?

In my son’s reception class, where they are only four and five years old, it is called a game of “hide and seek”. Except it’s not a game, is it.

2 min read

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Palestinians walk in the courtyard of the UNRWA Health Centre in Khan Yunis on the southern Gaza Strip on October 29, 2024 (Image: Getty)
Gary Cohen

By Gary Cohen

The Hamas files: how terrorists captured Western NGOs in Gaza

Be it through intimidation, ideological alignment, convenience or financial dependency, “respected” humanitarian organisations have crossed a red line

4 min read
Police officers gather in Trafalgar Square ahead of a planned protest in support of Palestine Action on October 4, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by Alishia Abodunde/Getty Images)
Metropolitan Police

As an ex-policeman, I know exactly why it took dead Jews for the force to act against the hate mob

Too often, the advancement of senior officers depends less on what they do than on how well they can write up what they claim to have done

By Gill Levy

3 min read
Mike Doran

By Mike Doran

Tucker Carlson claims Israel is a burden on the US. It reveals profound strategic ignorance

The security mechanism with the Jewish state directly serves the American interest and, in practice, saves American lives, soldiers and civilians alike

6 min read
Israeli F-35i and F-15i aircraft fly alongside a US B-52 strategic bomber in a joint military exercise (Image: IDF)
Stephen Daisley

By Stephen Daisley

Jews had to die, repeatedly, before the UK acted on ‘globalise the intifada’

In Britain, and not only Britain, solidarity with the community tends to be post-mortem

3 min read
Relatives of Rabbi Eli Schlanger, who was killed in the December 14 Bondi beach terror attack, lean over his coffin during his funeral on December 17, 2025. (Image: Getty)
Maureen Lipman

By Maureen Lipman

There I was, childishly delighted to drink my own face

In the Orient Hotel in Jerusalem I was presented with a cappuccino with my likeness on it. In froth. Don’t ask me how they did it or why I was singled out for special treatment

5 min read
Image: Maureen Lipman

Leaders

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The JC Leader

From Bondi to Manchester: the cost of Western denial on antisemitism

Sydney lays bare the consequences of demonising Israel and shrinking from the fight against extremist ideology that now threatens Western societies themselves

By The JC Leader

2 min read
Police enforce a cordon after the terror attack on the Chanukah celebration at Bondi Beach on December 14, 2025 in Sydney, Australia. (Image: Getty)
The JC Leader

By The JC Leader

Rachel Reeves restores moral clarity on Israel

The Chancellor’s unapologetically Zionist speech – honest about Hamas’s October 7 atrocity, blunt about antisemitism, and courageous within her own Labour party – hints at a long overdue reset in the UK’s approach to Israel

2 min read
Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivers keynote speech at annual LFI lunch (Photo: LFI)
The JC Leader

By The JC Leader

The Maccabi ban is a warning to Britain about mob rule

When the state is seen to yield, extremists do not moderate – they escalate

1 min read
Supporters of Maccabi Tel Aviv ahead of the match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv, in Amsterdam on November 7, 2024 / Netherlands OUT (Photo by JEROEN JUMELET/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)
The JC Leader

By The JC Leader

The St John’s Wood debacle exposes a policing culture of capitulation to extremists

Jews are victimised twice: once by those who hate them, and again by a law enforcement model that rewards their civility with indifference

2 min read
Anti-Israel protest in front of St John’s Wood Synagogue (Image: X)

Letters

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The JC

Letters to the Editor, November 14 2025

By The JC

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Brothers Gali Berman and Ziv Berman who were held hostage in Gaza for more than 700 days celebrate at the Israeli Premier League match between Beitar Jerusalem and Maccabi Tel Aviv FC. (Photo by Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)
The JC

By The JC

Letters to the Editor, October 10 2025

Readers – many non-Jewish – react to the attack on Heaton Park Synagogue on Yom Kippur

4 min read
The JC

By The JC

Letters to the Editor September 12

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The JC

By The JC

Letters to the Editor, June 6 2025

4 min read
Bibas Family

Letters to the editor, 28th February 2025

Swiss cottage, Bibas family and non-Jewish allies

By The JC

3 min read
The JC

By The JC

Letters to the Editor, October 4 2024

Lebanon, Keir Starmer and East End synagogues

3 min read
The JC

By The JC

Letters to the Editor, September 20 2024

Abraham Accords, NEU and Bibi

2 min read
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