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Is it bad for the Jews to keep asking ‘Is it bad for the Jews’?

My deeply unscientific research project into whether other ethnic minorities have similar anxieties

4 min read

February 26, 2026 14:27

Mel Brooks attends the 70th Bafta awards on February 12, 2017 (Image: Getty)

Purim’s enduring lesson: strength, pride and the refusal to bow

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks observed that the festival’s jollity exists so that we can live with the risks of being Jewish, ‘without being terrified, traumatised or intimidated’

2 min read

February 26, 2026 14:00

Jerusalem's Adloyada Purim parade, March 16, 2025 (Image: Getty)

Burnley

Exclusive: Charity probed over ‘blood libel’ post gets £185,000 grant

National Heritage Lottery Fund urged by MP and Jewish leaders to ‘wake up’ and give money to ‘better causes’

5 min read

February 26, 2026 13:04

Some of the posts by officials at Building Bridges Burnley

Poland

Holocaust documentary faces ban in Poland for depicting post-war antisemitism

Among Neighbors tells the story of Jewish residents of a small Polish town killed by their neighbours after the country’s liberation from Nazi occupation

2 min read

February 26, 2026 13:04

Janina Jaworska, featured in Among Neighbors (Credit: 8 Above)

celebrities

What the Beckhams can teach us about Shabbat

At its core, this family’s rift is about the power and poison of social media – and Judaism has the remedy

4 min read

February 26, 2026 12:16

Embroiled in a broiges: Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz

Gratitude

A problem solved

Continuing our series on counting your blessings

1 min read

February 26, 2026 12:05

Pac-Man video game at the 2025 Re:publica digital society festival in Berlin, Germany (Photo: Getty Images)

Sidrah

Remembering and forgetting: this week’s sidrah, Tetzaveh

“Remember that which Amalek did to you, on your journey, after you left Egypt. How, undeterred by fear of God, he surprised you on the march, when you were famished and weary, and cut down all the stragglers in your rear” Deuteronomy 25:17-18

1 min read

February 26, 2026 11:55

Battling the Amalekites, Pauwels Casteels, 17th century (Wikimedia Commons)

Calendar

Shabbat times from February 27 to March 6

Shabbat and fast times for the week

1 min read

February 26, 2026 11:48

Shabbat times from February 27 to March 6

Iran

Iran and US kick off third round of talks as scrutiny falls on ballistic missile programme

The Islamic Republic has insisted it will not accept limitations on its armaments, but that it is willing to commit to not developing nuclear weapons in exchange for the lifting of sanctions

1 min read

February 26, 2026 11:32

Police officers stand by as a convoy arrives at the Oman's ambassador residency for new round of talks between the United States and Iran to address Iran's nuclear program, in Geneva on February 26, 2026 (Getty Images)

Books

Making the Cut review: razor-sharp tips on how to become an observant Jew

This entertaining memoir does an excellent job of steering the non-Jewish, or less informed Jewish, reader through the maze of Orthodox Judaism

2 min read

February 26, 2026 10:48

Making the Cut review: razor-sharp tips on how to become an observant Jew

Israel

Modi pledges ‘iron alliance’ with Israel during rare state visit

The Indian leader called the Jewish state a ‘protective wall against barbarism’ as the two countries look to expand economic and defence partnerships

1 min read

February 26, 2026 10:33

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends a special plenum session at the Knesset in Jerusalem during his official visit to Israel on February 25, 2026 (Flash90)

Purim

Purim at the Museum

How the artefacts at the British Museum reveal the ancient history of the Jews and tell the book of Esther

5 min read

February 25, 2026 18:30

Walk the talk: Rabbi Zarum leading a tour at the British Museum

Palestine Action

Government can appeal against ruling which declared Palestine Action ban ‘unlawful’

Home Office ‘pleased’ to be allowed to appeal against judgement which quashed proscription of activist group

1 min read

February 25, 2026 17:39

Palestinian flags outside the Royal Courts of Justice (Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

The Hamas blueprint for October 7 that the world chose to ignore

The 2021 ‘Promise of the Hereafter’ conference sets out what would befall the survivors of a ‘defunct (Jewish) state’ – from death and expulsion to forced labour

3 min read

February 25, 2026 16:50