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Parashah of the week: Shelach Lecha

“So the community leadership took him outside the camp and stoned him to death as the Lord had commanded Moses” Numbers 15:6

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June 15, 2023 15:24

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.

Calendar

Shabbat times from June 16 to June 23

Shabbat times for the week

1 min read

June 15, 2023 15:14

Two lit shabbat candles in silver candlesticks

Cricket

Bat mitzvah! New exhibition celebrates wealth of Jewish involvement in the world of cricket

Exhibits at the MCC Museum's show feature all the Jewish players to have played at Test level and focus on the grassroots level of the sport in the community

7 min read

June 15, 2023 15:13

Holocaust survivors

Germany to give £1.1 billion to Holocaust survivors across the world in 2024

The survivors receiving these payments largely include Russian Jews who weren't in camps or ghettos and aren't eligible for pension programs

2 min read

June 15, 2023 15:06

The railway tracks entering the main building at the Auschwitz-Birkenau German Nazi death camp are pictured ahead of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's landmark visit in Oswiecim, Poland, on December 5, 2019. - German Chancellor Angela Merkel will honour Holocaust victims on December 6, 2019 with her first official visit to the former Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, a Nazi German killing factory where more than 1.1 million people, mostly European Jews, perished during World War II. (Photo by JANEK SKARZYNSKI / AFP) (Photo by JANEK SKARZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

How Jewish is?

Why everything in the world can be divided into 'Jewish or Goyish'

Life can be complicated. We divide up the world into the only two categories that really matter

3 min read

June 15, 2023 14:52

Why everything in the world can be divided into 'Jewish or Goyish'

Rachel Riley

Countdown star Rachel Riley: ‘I hide my Star of David when I don't feel safe'

The TV celebrity says she conceals her Jewish identity in certain situations

1 min read

June 15, 2023 14:32

Countdown star Rachel Riley: ‘I hide my Star of David when I don't feel safe'

Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis

Celebrations as Jewish Care's new £47million Stanmore welfare campus is opened

Key donors, community representatives, staff and volunteers attend as new facility is unveiled

1 min read

June 15, 2023 14:25

Celebrations as Jewish Care's new £47million Stanmore welfare campus is opened

The JC podcast

Daniel Finkelstein:"My parents didn't want Hitler to spoil their life"

The author paid tribute to his survivor parents in new JC podcast

1 min read

June 15, 2023 14:04

Daniel Finkelstein:"My parents didn't want Hitler to spoil their life"

Obituary

Obituary: Lord Clinton-Davis

Labour Peer and civil rights campaigner who fought antisemitism in Parliament

4 min read

June 15, 2023 13:14

Is it really antisemitic to criticise George Soros?

The taboo on criticising the anti-Israel philanthropist is so entrenched in mainstream media, a group called Jews Against Soros has been launched

3 min read

June 15, 2023 13:01

Is it really antisemitic to criticise George Soros?

Neo-Nazi

Satanist neo-Nazi pleads guilty to making an indecent photo of a child

Harry Vaughan is the son of a House of Lords clerk

2 min read

June 15, 2023 12:55

Satanist neo-Nazi pleads guilty to making an indecent photo of a child

Bake

Recipe: Giant double strawberry scones

Live it large with these super sized teatime treats - serve in slices

June 15, 2023 12:45

Cook time: 25 minutes

Judaica

Ancient scrolls find new home in Jerusalem library

The National Library of Israel in Jerusalem is now home to the world’s largest collection of 'Kabbalistic Tree' scrolls

2 min read

June 15, 2023 12:42

Ancient scrolls find new home in Jerusalem library

Universities

‘Rocketing’ prices are forcing Jewish students to stop eating kosher

Undergraduates says they are turning to treif choices to make ends meet

2 min read

June 15, 2023 12:42

‘Rocketing’ prices are forcing Jewish students to stop eating kosher

Cake

Recipe: Strawberry polenta cake

Nothing says summer like strawberries and this cake is sunshine on a plate

June 15, 2023 12:39

Cook time: 35 - 40 minutes

Kosher shopping

The ultra-processed danger lurking in kosher foods

Get the lowdown on the 'Frankenstein ingredients' in heschered food and why you need to stop eating them

4 min read

June 15, 2023 12:38

Ultra processed foods are making us sick Photo: Getty Images

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