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UK Jewry

Jewish Culture Month is chance for community ‘rebrand’, says Board president

Despite the challenges, there are a lot of reasons to be positive about UK Jewry, Phil Rosenberg believes

5 min read

January 12, 2026 15:47

Rosenberg in Brighton in 2024 (Image: BoD)

Israeli Politics

Coalition MKs submit bill to scrap fraud and breach of trust offences from criminal code

The crimes make up two of the three charges currently face by Prime Minister Netanyahu, though it is not clear whether the law could be changed retroactively

2 min read

January 12, 2026 15:16

Likud MK and coalition whip Ofir Katz leads a House committee meeting at the Knesset on December 29, 2025 (Flash90)

Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis

Chief Rabbi condemns settler violence against ‘innocent Palestinians in the territories’

Sir Ephraim Mirvis said the phenomenon ‘deserves to be called out’, but that the ‘best way’ members of the Diaspora can help to combat it is to ‘live in Israel’

1 min read

January 12, 2026 14:48

Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis speaks during a reception to celebrate Chanukah at Downing Street on December 16, 2025 (Getty Images)

Education

Religious studies teacher who posted ‘glory to Hamas’ allowed to keep teaching

A misconduct panel concluded that Ronan Preston’s behaviour was ‘entirely out of character’

1 min read

January 12, 2026 14:46

Social Media

Peter Kyle backs tough Ofcom action on X over AI abuse of Holocaust survivor’s descendant

Business secretary says perpetrators must be ‘brought to justice’ and signals he would not oppose a ban on the platform altogether if recommended by the regulator

4 min read

January 12, 2026 14:33

Secretary of State for Business and Trade Peter Kyle (Getty Images)

IRGC

UK Government rejects calls to proscribe IRGC

Business Secretary Peter Kyle insisted that ministers had extended sanctions against Tehran ‘to the full extent we can’

2 min read

January 12, 2026 14:11

A protestor at a rally in central London supporting the protests in Iran on January 11, 2026 (Elliott Franks)

Israel

Government to revisit paused Israel arms licenses after Phase Two of Gaza ceasefire

Licenses could be ‘unblocked’ after implementation of next stage of peace deal, Peter Kyle tells JC

3 min read

January 12, 2026 14:11

Business and Trade Secretary Peter Kyle in conversation with Jane Prinsley at the Jewish Labour Movement annual conference on Sunday

Film

Hamnet review: ‘needs a middle ground between modern and Elizabethan English’ ★★★

The film’s climax is stunning, but producers Steven Spielberg and especially Sam Mendes have directed enough Shakespeare on stage to make the archaic language accessible to a contemporary audience

2 min read

January 12, 2026 13:14

Grieving process: Jessie Buckley as Agnes Shakespeare (centre) in Hamnet

Misan Harriman and the moral collapse of progressives over Iran and Israel

If your oppressors are murderous theocrats but your supporters include the ‘wrong’ people – that is Zionists – many on the left may cancel your cry for freedom

3 min read

January 12, 2026 12:56

Obituary

The Jewish woman selected by Goebbels as the ‘perfect Aryan baby’

Hessy Levinsons Taft, whose photograph appeared without her parents’ knowledge in a Nazi propaganda magazine, has died aged 91

1 min read

January 12, 2026 12:42

A six-month-old Hessy Levinsons Taft, dubbed the 'perfect Aryan baby', on the cover of a Nazi propaganda magazine in 1935 (Yad Vashem)

Iran protests 2026

‘We won’t forget who stood by us,’ Iranian dissidents tell Jewish allies as thousands attend London rally

The rally was organised by Jewish campaign group Stop The Hate in collaboration with Iranian Committee for Freedom

2 min read

January 12, 2026 12:10

Thousands gathered outside Downing Street protesting against the IRGC (Image: Elliott Franks)

Sadiq Khan

Sadiq Khan urges Londoners to stop ‘globalise the intifada’ chants

The mayor of London highlighted the ‘heightened fear among Jewish people’ following a series of antisemitic terror attacks across the world

1 min read

January 12, 2026 12:09

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan during the Labour Conference 2025 in Liverpool on September 28, 2025 (Getty Images)

Awards

Timothée Chalamet wins Golden Globe for Marty Supreme

The Jewish actor is charting course for an Oscar win after beating Leonardo DiCaprio and George Clooney for a gong on Sunday

1 min read

January 12, 2026 11:53

French-US actor Timothee Chalamet poses in the press room with the Best Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for "Marty Supreme" during the 83rd annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills, California, on January 11, 2026 (Getty Images)

Israel

New Israeli ambassador to UK may be delayed after arrest over leak investigation

An indicted former aide to Prime Minister Netanyahu accused Tzachi Braverman of promising to quash the inquiry into his alleged release of classified material to the media

2 min read

January 12, 2026 11:47

Prime Minister Netanyahu's chief of staff, Tzachi Braverman, walking at the Knesset on November 11, 2024 (Flash90)

Hamas

Hamas delays leadership elections amid ‘increasing’ internal divisions

The group was due to select a leader within the first ten days of the year, but is now turning its focus to advancing the ceasefire – potentially without disarming – and addressing the factionalism within

2 min read

January 12, 2026 11:41

Al-Qassam spokesman Abu Obeida (R) makes a statement to the media. In the background are the members of the governing council of Hamas' political wing (Getty Images)

Gaza

Hamas orders Gaza agencies to cede power to ceasefire government

The military wing is yet to confirm whether it will comply amid long-running reports of significant internal division over ceasefire negotiations

2 min read

January 12, 2026 11:18

Members of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, take part in the funeral ceremony of Marwan Issa, a top Hamas commander, in the central Gaza Strip, on February 7, 2025 (Getty Images)

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