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Jesse Jackson: Tracing the civil rights leader’s complicated relationship with the Jewish community

Jackson died on Tuesday aged 88

COMMUNITY FOCUS: Brighton & Hove – ‘a community that punches way above its weight’

The JC heads south to explore synagogues, community centres, and a football stadium in the seaside city

I had the snip at the age of 36 so I could marry the love of my life

Comedian and former wrestler Max Olesker on why, despite his Jewish upbringing, he converted to Orthodox Judaism and had a date with a scalpel

Prominent religious Zionist rabbis call on IDF to halt integration of female soldiers into tank units

The rabbis claim that allowing women to serve in the Armoured Corps would ‘effectively exclude’ Charedi recruits

‘An insult to our name’: Family of Jewish founders of German motorcycle firm call on AfD to stop using its bikes

Members of the Simson family, whose ancestors were forced to sell the company by the Nazis, accused the far-right party of ‘appropriation’

Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg: ‘I still have plenty of fight in me for the causes I care about’

The senior Masorti leader sits down with the JC to talk interfaith, the environment and compassion for refugees

Letters to the Editor February 20 2026

Brighton woman convicted of stealing hostage memorial and throwing it in bin

Fiona Monro told the court the poster of slain Israeli hostage, Tsachi Idan, was ‘inflammatory’ and put up to ‘justify the genocide’

Ed Davey’s shameful stance on Palestine Action

By backing the judgement overturning the terror proscription, the Liberal Democrats do nothing but encourage extreme anti-Israel forces and, ultimately, put Britain’s Jewish community at risk

Effigy of Israel ‘executed’ and set on fire in ‘disturbing’ ceremony at Andorra carnival

The effigy featured a Star of David on its face

JNF UK launches Green Sunday to strengthen Israel’s border communities

The people-led projects aim to revitalise civilian life on Israel’s outskirts

Obituary: Louis Rapaport

Manchester community leader who promoted interfaith dialogue triggered by rise in antisemitism

Close Palestine Action loophole with law if needed, MPs tell government

Lord Walney’s proposal to outlaw non-terrorist groups engaged in “criminal sabotage” backed by Labour and Tory parliamentarians

Israelis called occupiers and ‘human fragments’ on BBC

Corporation accused of ‘marking its homework’ after rejecting complaint over incendiary Arabic service remarks

The BBC will fail its final test if it marks its own homework

BBC Arabic should be a jewel in the corporation’s crown, but it has too often become a platform for extremism and antisemitism

Five of the rulings in favour of BBC Arabic on complaints since October 7

Five examples of the Editorial Complaints Unit rejecting accusations of bias at BBC Arabic