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UK Jewish student pushed down stairs and others faced ‘genocide’ questions, chaplaincy group reveals

University Jewish Chaplaincy said they were just two examples out of hundreds of incidents that it has logged over the past year

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January 19, 2026 17:31

October 7

Yarden Bibas shares painful third-birthday message to ‘beloved’ son Kfir

Slain hostage Kfir Bibas was taken captive when he was just nine months old, and his brother Ariel was four

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January 19, 2026 16:17

Kfir Bibas was abducted alongside his brother Ariel, four, and their mother Shiri, aged 32 (Photo: Family handout)

Holocaust remembrance

Thousands of free falafel handed out in honour of Holocaust survivor David Leitner

The falafel free-for-all is an annual affair now in its eleventh year

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January 19, 2026 15:27

Volunteers hand out falafel on in Glasgow (Credit: Glasgow Friends of Israel)

Washington DC

US will pursue death penalty against Washington embassy shooting suspect

‘The sad truth is, for way too long, antisemitism has been allowed to grow unchecked in this country,’ said Attorney General Pam Bondi

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January 19, 2026 15:04

Attorney General Pam Bondi, accompanied by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche (L) and FBI Director Kash Patel (R), speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department on November 19, 2025 in Washington, DC (Getty Images)

US Politics

Jewish Pennsylvania governor claims Harris campaign team asked if he was ‘Israeli double agent’

‘I just had a knot in my stomach through all of it’, wrote Josh Shapiro in his upcoming memoir

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January 19, 2026 14:46

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and Dr Neeli Bendapudi, President of Pennsylvania State University, speak at the inaugural Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit at Carnegie Mellon University on July 15, 2025 (Getty Images)

Florida

Jewish baker dies in freak accident involving industrial dough mixer

Mordehay Grunberger, who worked at the South Florida Kosher Market, was making challah at the time

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January 19, 2026 14:30

The baker, known to friends and family as Miki, pictured with his wife of 30 years, Inna Maor (Picture: Facebook/ Inna Maor)

Israel

Uber poised to return to Israel as Knesset vote set

Rideshare services have been largely absent from the Jewish state since 2023, but a new bill looks set to clear away some of the regulatory hurdles

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January 19, 2026 14:13

An Uber ride-sharing car in motion (Getty Images)

Iran

‘Iran will recognise Israel immediately’ if Islamic Republic falls, exiled crown prince vows

Under Reza Pahlavi, a ‘free Iran’ would ‘pursue the expansion of the Abraham Accords’

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January 19, 2026 13:54

Exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi (Image: Getty Images)

Sydney terror attack

Pebbles, flowers and a list of names: my visit to the Bondi Beach memorial

‘By the time the rabbi said Kaddish I was in pieces. I cried.’

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January 19, 2026 12:22

The pebbles at the memorial on Bondi Beach (Photo: Lawrence Cohen)

synagogue music

Let’s sing! Shuls invited to sign up for festival of music

‘From Our Lips’ is running for the second time throughout the UK

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January 19, 2026 12:21

Cantor Zöe Jacobs from Finchley Reform Synagogue

Donald Trump

Trump’s personal lawyer proposes US provide asylum for British Jews

British-born Robert Garson says the UK is ‘no longer a safe place’ for Jews and offered to train ‘any Jewish person that wants to learn’ how to handle a firearm

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January 19, 2026 12:20

Robert Garson (third from right) stands behind President Trump during the swearing-in ceremony for US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor (not pictured) in the Oval Office in November 2025 (Getty Images)

Jerusalem

Fifty-five children injured and two babies killed after ‘gas leak’ at Jerusalem nursery

Medics reported to have been running in and out of the building, carrying multiple babies and young children at a time

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January 19, 2026 12:14

Rescue and security forces at the scene where toddlers were taken ill in Jerusalem (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Syria

Syrian forces take Raqqa after new ceasefire with Kurdish militias

President al-Sharaa recently signed a declaration guaranteeing the embattled minority equal rights as part of an integration plan

2 min read

January 19, 2026 11:58

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa announces a presidential proclamation extending full legal equality to the Kurdish minority, reinstating the citizenship of stateless Syrian Kurds and enshrining Kurdish as a national language (X/RagipSoylu)

Holocaust Memorial Day

Number of UK schools marking Holocaust Memorial Day plunges by more than half

The number of secondary schools to hold events plummeted from more than 2,000 in 2023 to 854 in 2025

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January 19, 2026 11:14

Holocaust Memorial Day is marked annually on January 27, the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and death camp

Masih Alinejad exposed the UN’s moral bankruptcy in its silence on Iran

Her searing testimony at the Security Council stripped away decades of sanctimony, laying bare a United Nations that condemns Israel obsessively while averting its gaze from mass repression in the Islamic Republic

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January 19, 2026 11:09

Masih Alinejad, journalist and political dissident, speaks during a United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation in Iran at the UN headquarters on January 15, 2026 in New York. (Image: Getty)

Gaza Board of Peace

Israel pushes back on Trump’s Board of Peace plan over Qatari and Turkish involvement

Reports suggest the members of the board, set to include Sir Tony Blair and US President Trump, will have to contribute $1 billion to secure a permanent seat

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January 19, 2026 10:29

US President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu shake hands as they arrive to speak to journalists during a joint press conference at Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, on December 29, 2025 (Getty Images)

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