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Summer camp

Forget footie, it’s all about the FTSE at the world’s first stock market boot camp for teens

Why would youngsters waste summers on crafts and marshmallows when they can get ahead in finance?

4 min read

August 5, 2026 17:45

Playing the markets: Eliana Rosen, 18, at Malcolm Berman's stock market boot camp (Photo: John Jeffay)

Conservative Party

Former neo-Nazi withdraws from Tory candidacy after Jewish community backlash

Kemi Badenoch says Joshua Bonehill-Paine will work with the party on ‘tackling radicalisation’ as part of its culture and integration commission

2 min read

August 5, 2026 17:06

Joshua Bonehill-Paine (Joshua Bonehill-Paine)

Mitzvah

Orthodox filmmaker takes bright yellow ‘Mitzvah truck’ across all 50 US states to connect isolated Jews

Orthodox journalist Shloime Zionce came up with the idea after spending time with Chabad in Australia

1 min read

August 5, 2026 16:52

Shloime Zionce and his Mitzvah truck (image: Facebook/ Ellin Bessner)

David Miller has won an appeal – not a right to target Jewish students or shield antizionism from scrutiny

Why did the University of Bristol lose? In part, because it moved directly to dismissal when a lesser disciplinary sanction was available

4 min read

August 5, 2026 16:49

Kemi Badenoch, you’ve got this very, very wrong

I am all for rehabilitation but there’s a gulf between being sorry and being allowed to stand for election. I don’t believe Joshua Bonehill‑Paine should hold any position in public life – because of both his racism and his views of women

2 min read

August 5, 2026 16:15

Leader of the Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch (Image: Getty Images)

Vilnius

Heart of ‘Jewish cathedral’ unearthed in Vilnius 69 years after synagogue was torn down

The Great Synagogue of Vilna stood for three centuries before it was ransacked by the Nazis and destroyed under Soviet rule

2 min read

August 5, 2026 16:10

Archaeologists have uncovered the Great Synagogue of Vilna. (Rytis Tamulynas, Vilna Great Synagogue and Shulhoyf Research Project, and Israel Antiquities Authority)

Obituary

Walt Odets, psychologist, dies at 79

Clinical psychologist who helped change the way LGBT leaders viewed gay health

4 min read

August 5, 2026 15:26

NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 05: (L-R) Victoria Krane, Walt Odets and Anna Strasberg attend The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute Presents "LOVELAB" at The Lee Strasberg Theatre on December 5, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images)

Health

Zanzibari mother who came to Israel for major heart operation returns as son needs same procedure

It has been more than 25 years since Arafa Abdulla Ali came to the Jewish state for vital surgery, and when her infant son developed the same congenital condition, she knew she had to go back

3 min read

August 5, 2026 15:23

Arafa and Khatid before the operation (Courtesy)

Haifa and the Technion embody coexistence. Hackney should learn from them, not turn away

Around a quarter of its students are Arab Israelis, a higher proportion than Arab citizens make up in Israel's population as a whole. Nearly 70 per cent of those Arab students are women, many the first in their families to study engineering, medicine or science

2 min read

August 5, 2026 14:27

Jewish, Muslim, Christian and Druze students at the Technion (Image: Technion UK)

Andy Burnham

Votes for 16-year-olds could boost anti-Israel candidates, Burnham warned

A study by the Muslim Council of Britain suggested the number of pro-Gaza independent MPs could increase significantly in 2029

1 min read

August 5, 2026 14:15

Prime Minister Andy Burnham during a visit to HM Coastguard Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre in Dover on August 2, 2026 (Getty Images)

Conservative Party

Senior Tories urge Kemi Badenoch to drop former neo-Nazi local election candidate, sources tell JC

Jewish leaders turn down meeting with Joshua Bonehill-Paine, who was convicted for racially harassing Baroness Berger

4 min read

August 5, 2026 13:59

In February, Bonehill-Paine was identifed by Channel 4 News as the man behind The Crewkerne Gazette. (Channel 4 News/Youtube/The Crewkerne Gazette)

Books

Nashville book shop cancels Jewish author’s launch after antizionist backlash

The outlet’s owner cited security concerns, but the writer claimed she had been targeted because of her Jewish identity

2 min read

August 5, 2026 13:33

Alyssa Rosenheck at the ADL's Never Is Now event, where she was recognised as one of its Heroes Against Hate, at the Javits Center in New York City on March 04, 2025 (Getty Images)

The trend for rounds of applause in synagogue makes regulars like me clappy-unhappy

Shul services are sacred events, not pop concerts

2 min read

August 5, 2026 12:18

Show of hands: applause detracts from the spiritual occasion, says our writer

Israel

Orthodox lawyer calls for rabbinic intervention as wig prices soar over £8,000

The Charedi community has also raised concerns over the rising cost of traditional fur shtreimels worn by some Chasidic men

1 min read

August 5, 2026 11:48

An Orthodox Jewish woman shopping for wigs in Bnei Brak, Israel (Getty Images)

Hamas

When will the terrorist mastermind behind my daughter’s murder face justice?

In an interview on the 25th anniversary of his daughter Malki’s death in a pizzeria bombing in Jerusalem when she was aged 15, Arnold Roth calls for attack plotter Ahlam al-Tamimi to be extradited to the US to stand trial

5 min read

August 5, 2026 11:08

Arnold Roth with his daughter, Malki (Courtesy)

Israel

Israel did not agree to Gaza withdrawal plan, says Netanyahu

The prime minister insisted that the IDF would remain in the territory until Hamas had been completely disarmed

1 min read

August 5, 2026 11:05

Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump (Photo: X/Prime Minister of Israel)

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