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Sidrah

Parashah of the week: Nitzavim-Vayelech

“For the matter is very close to you, it is in your mouth and in your heart in order to do it” Deuteronomy 30:14

1 min read

September 7, 2023 13:00

A torah (Hebrew scripture) reading. The "yod" - a hand-shaped silver pointer - is used by the reader to mark his or her place in the text.

Israelophobia

The editor's story: Jake Wallis Simons on what Israelophobia means to him

Former JC editor Stephen Pollard interviews his successor about his Orthodox childhood, life as a foreign correspondent and his new book

7 min read

September 7, 2023 12:56

Israelophobia

The Soviet spin doctors who sowed the seeds of left-wing Israelophobia

A week after liberal rabbis called Israel an ‘apartheid regime’, JC editor Jake Wallis Simons, in a third extract from his new book, reveals how the trope is rooted in Soviet propaganda

9 min read

September 7, 2023 12:56

The Soviet spin doctors who sowed the seeds of left-wing Israelophobia

Labour Party

Tory MP hires councillor suspended by Labour after posting about ‘Zionist lobby’

Backbencher Paul Bristow apologises for the move but insists he won’t sack the ex-Labour official

3 min read

September 7, 2023 12:24

Tory MP hires councillor suspended by Labour after posting about ‘Zionist lobby’

Sport

Israeli flag football team wins gold in Europe despite Shabbat forfeit

The team, made up mostly of Orthodox players, now have their sights set on a global victory

1 min read

September 7, 2023 12:10

Israeli flag football team wins gold in Europe despite Shabbat forfeit

'I'm nicer than Lord Sugar' says host of new Apprentice estate agent show

Paul Kemsley is the star of Selling Super Houses where aspiring estate agents compete for the job of a lifetime

3 min read

September 7, 2023 12:07

'I'm nicer than Lord Sugar' says host of new Apprentice estate agent show

IRGC

Government faces fresh calls to outlaw IRGC after proscription of Wagner Group

The Russian paramilitary group was outlawed in the UK by Home Secretary Suella Braverman

1 min read

September 7, 2023 12:01

Government faces fresh calls to outlaw IRGC after proscription of Wagner Group

Politics

Jewish groups speak up for Michael Gove's BDS bill banning councils from Israeli boycotts

The Board of Deputies and Jewish Leadership Council said they strongly support the legislation

1 min read

September 7, 2023 10:59

A tourist photographs a sign painted on a wall in the West Bank biblical town of Bethlehem on June 5, 2015, calling to boycott Israeli products coming from Jewish settlements. The international BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) campaign, that pushes for a ban on Israeli products, aims to exert political and economic pressure over Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories in a bid to repeat the success of the campaign which ended apartheid in South Africa. AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX (Photo credit should read THOMAS COEX/AFP via Getty Images)

Donald Trump

Trump's son in law urges him to back Saudi-Israel peace deal

Lindsey Graham said that furthering the legacy of the Abraham Accords would be the best way for Trump to cement his reputation

1 min read

September 7, 2023 10:50

Trump's son in law urges him to back Saudi-Israel peace deal

Rosh Hashanah

London's tastiest Rosh Hashanah feasts

Deliciously different ways to mark the Jewish new year in London

2 min read

September 7, 2023 10:42

Mahmoud Abbas

Mahmoud Abbas claims Hitler killed Jews because of their 'social role' instead of religion

The PA leader was accused of Holocaust denialism after making the controversial remarks at his Fatah party’s Revolutionary Council

2 min read

September 7, 2023 10:39

BERLIN, GERMANY - AUGUST 16: Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian National Authority, speaks to the media with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (not pictured) following talks at the Chancellery on August 16, 2022 in Berlin, Germany. The two leaders discussed bilateral issues, the current situation in the Palestinian territories as well as perspectives on a possible peace process between Palestine and Israel. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Letters to the editor, 8 September 2023

Melanie Phillips on Judicial reform, Brighton's windows and liberal rabbis

6 min read

September 7, 2023 09:32

Prayer Hall portrait at the Brighton and Hove Reform Synagogue (Photo: C20 Society)

UAE

Flight with 12 Israelis on board from UAE to Singapore forced to land in Malaysia

The Emirates Airline flight from Dubai to Singapore landed in the country which has no diplomatic relationship with Israel

1 min read

September 6, 2023 21:05

SAO PAULO, BRAZIL - JANUARY 22: The Emirates airline commercial flight aircraft that brought the cargo with the Oxford / AstraZeneca vaccines that arrived at the Guarulhos International Airport on January 22, 2021 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Brazil's Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello accompanied the arrival of 2 million imported doses of the vaccine, coming from India. After the arrival from India the cargo goes to the city of Rio de Janeiro where it will be transported to the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) warehouse. The National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) authorized the emergency use of the CoronaVac and the AstraZeneca vaccines against Covid-19. (Photo by Alexandre Schneider/Getty Images)

Shabbat

Shabbat times from September 8 to September 15

Shabbat times for the week

1 min read

September 6, 2023 17:00

Two lit shabbat candles in silver candlesticks

TikTok

Meet the viral TikToker highlighting what it's like to be Black and Jewish

Raven Schwam-Curtis explains how her two identities mix and how she's built a proudly Jewish following

3 min read

September 6, 2023 16:55

Meet the viral TikToker highlighting what it's like to be Black and Jewish

Ukraine

Ukraine, Holocaust Ground Zero review: Unbearable but important watch

Filmed by the Nazis themselves, the footage reveals the true horror of what they did to our people

2 min read

September 6, 2023 16:49

Ukraine, Holocaust Ground Zero review: Unbearable but important watch

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