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Former JFS student dies after going missing

Daniel Mervis, from Finchley, North London, was reported missing on October 26, but had passed away in the early hours of October 25

A honeymoon trip to the past

Elise Otzenberger — the actor turned writer-director — speaks to Stephen Applebaum about her film, which will open this year's Jewish Film Festival

Sajid Javid hosts Shoah survivors in Downing Street, praising their educational work

Israeli embassy shut as staff go on strike

The dispute centres on taxation of overseas stipends, with Israel's foreign ministry accusing the finance ministry of reneging on a deal brokered over the summer

JLM announces it won't campaign for Labour MPs 'for exceptional candidates'

'Fighting racism, prejudice and intolerance is at the heart of our Labour values – it is the failure of the leader and his supporters to live these values which has led us to take this stance'

IzBiz: Tesco using Israeli tech to scrap checkout counters

A fortnightly round-up of the latest from Israel's booming business sector

Angela Merkel vows firm stance on online hate

German chancellor makes promise for remaining months of her term at World Jewish Congress event in Munich

Senior rabbi takes unprecedented step of writing to urge congregants to vote tactically against Labour

Exclusive: Rabbi Jonathan Romain tells 823 families at his shul that 'a Corbyn-led government would pose a danger to Jewish life as we know it'

My man reaches the (wrong) bottom

It's wedding time, and Zelda's got her red dress on

We’re between the devil and the deep blue sea

I’ve spoken to ordinarily calm, cool-headed people whose palms grow clammy as they work through the scenarios, says Jonathan Freedland

We must speak up for the Roma, the 'forgotten' victims

'If genocide gets no attention, the circumstances that led to it hardly change at all. The same hatred. The same language.'

Liberal Judaism chief executive backs Labour in Finchley and Golders Green

Rabbi Danny Rich was at one point mooted as a possible candidate himself

‘I’d be crazy not to cast my wife’

Bart Freundlich's new film, After the Wedding, stars his wife, the Hollywood star Julianne Moore. It was inevitable, he tells Stephen Applebaum

If I’m chatting at kiddush please leave me in peace!

'Welcome to the world of kiddush etiquette. A place where it’s absolutely guaranteed that people will charge, uninvited into your conversation.'

The menopause can be marvellous

The way that women approach midlife is far too negative - and the bible shows an alternative approach

Ex-Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks introduces new independent antisemitism advisor to the Lords

Lord Mann is now tasked with providing independent advice to ministers on how to tackle anti-Jewish prejudice