Search

Board of Peace set to hold first Washington summit today

World leaders and senior officials, including Sir Tony Blair, are expected to attend, though the UK and EU, as well as the Pope, will be notable absentees

IDF names soldier killed in ‘friendly fire’ incident

Staff Sergeant Ofri Yafe was shot dead after another team from within his own unit mistook him and his comrades for enemy combatants

Inside the failed Isis–inspired plot to murder Manchester Jews

Counter-terror operation foiled plot to kill as many Jews as possible at Manchester rally against antisemitism

Psychologists’ coalition opposes Jewish ethnic association because ‘most Jewish-Americans identify as white’

The Coalition of National Racial and Ethnic Psychological Associations said antisemitism is a form of religious, rather than racial, discrimination and that Jews are ‘not under-represented’ in their field

Gewolb and Newman to contest Board vice-presidency

Next month’s by-election will ensure a female presence on the Board’s officer team

Why I have stopped posting on social media

Instagram used to be a straightforward echo chamber for me. Then October 7 happened and I got scared of the political judgment

Reduced to one word – Jew

Comedian. Actor. National treasure. None of it protected Matt Lucas on that escalator from Soviet-era totalitarian racism right here in Britain

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