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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

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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