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School that blocked Jewish MP’s visit sacks diversity lead after Hamas ‘heroes’ post

Damien Egan’s trip to the Bristol school was postponed over protest concerns

3 min read

April 17, 2026 10:41

Saima Akhtar was an inclusion and diversity coordinator at the multi-academy trust which runs Bristol Brunel Academy

Free Speech

Exclusive: MPs and peers condemn ‘disproportionate’ punishment of student who called keffiyeh ‘tea towel’

Pro-Israel undergraduate Brodie Mitchell was suspended by Royal Holloway in what parliamentarians claim was ‘double standards’

3 min read

April 17, 2026 08:49

Royal Holloway, University of London (Image: Royal Holloway)

Aliyah

I’m backing my future here. I have faith in Britain

I understand that Jewish fears are high, but I believe our country can turn itself round and get tougher on extremism

4 min read

April 16, 2026 20:15

Good old Blighty: the reassuringly English village of Great Budworth in Cheshire

Hatzola ambulance attack

Counter-terror police investigate Hatzola ambulance and Finchley shul arson attacks

Met police probe also includes targeting of Iran International ‘due to the nature and circumstances of the three incidents’

1 min read

April 16, 2026 18:12

Burnt-out Hatzola ambulances after the arson attack in Golders Green last month (Getty)

Ceasefire

Trump announces Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire

The US president confirmed on Truth Social that the 10-day truce will take effect this evening

1 min read

April 16, 2026 17:14

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (C) speaks during a meeting with Lebanon's Ambassador to the US Nada Hamadeh Moawad (2R) and Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter (2L) at the State Department in Washington, DC, on April 14, 2026 (Getty Images)

Poland

Far-right Polish politician holds up Israeli flag with swastika on same day as March of the Living

Konrad Berkowicz, from the New Hope party, compared the Jewish state to the “new Third Reich”

1 min read

April 16, 2026 16:36

Konrad Berkowicz holding the flag (Image: YouTube/ TRTWorld)

‘Zaftig’ is a state of mind – at least it is since I discovered weight-loss jabs

Why should a person’s weight (and the way they decide to lose it) become a moral issue – ‘cheating’ even?

4 min read

April 16, 2026 16:26

The author during her honeymoon in New York (Image: courtesy of Miranda Levy)

Leeds

Housing charity wins praise for its community impact

The Mayor of Leeds hosted a celebration for LJHA staff to recognise their hard work

1 min read

April 16, 2026 16:03

Left to right: Mark Grandfield, Councillor Dan Cohen, Lady Mayoress Mrs Elayna Cohen and Craig Simons, LJHA's director of operations (photo: LJHA)

Jewish students

What a rabbi and rebbetzin learnt when they went back to university

‘We need to find ways to ensure young people feel connected to their congregations when they return home’

5 min read

April 16, 2026 15:54

Rabbi Dr Yoni and Rebbetzin Elisheva Birnbaum with Birmingham University students (Photo: courtesy)

Gibraltar

‘In Gibraltar, coexistence is not a slogan. It is simply life’

A Gibraltarian living in the UK writes how, when living on the Rock, he never thought twice about wearing a kippah in public

4 min read

April 16, 2026 15:43

Faith leaders and dignitaries at a Chanukiah-lighting in 2025, following the Bondi Beach terrorist attack

Reform UK

Reform candidate shared image of infamous mural branded ‘blatantly anti-Jewish’ by Farage

Another of the party’s candidates shared images of ‘Zionists’ pulling the strings of world leaders and questioned whether the King had converted to Islam

2 min read

April 16, 2026 15:16

Reform candidate shared image of infamous mural branded ‘blatantly anti-Jewish’ by Farage

Limmud

Limmud and Azara join forces for summer study programme

The week-long residential course will take place at Sadeh Farm

1 min read

April 16, 2026 15:03

Love of learning: students on the first Azara course in 2023

Iran

Boastful Iranian leaders signal ever more hardline views as regime insiders tell JC that IRGC is in control

One deputy to former IRGC commander Ghalibaf vowed to revenge ‘the blood of the martyrs’

3 min read

April 16, 2026 15:03

Members of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army march during a military parade in Tehran on Thursday, July 23, 2009. (Photo by Hossein Beris / Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP) (Photo by HOSSEIN BERIS/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

Iranian dissidents

Three arrested over attempted arson of Iran International offices

The suspects were detained after a high-speed car chase with police

1 min read

April 16, 2026 14:47

Reza Mohaddes (C), a presenter and editor-in-chief for Iran International, taking part in a news broadcast at the network's studio in London (Getty Images)

IDF

IDF soldier arrested on suspicion of murdering West Bank Palestinian

Police said the man was accused of ‘acting utside the scope of his duties’

1 min read

April 16, 2026 14:25

Mourners carry the body of Amir Mutasem Odeh in the village of Qusra, West Bank, on March 15, 2026 (Getty Images)

The Holocaust began with words and then ordinary people normalising hate – the same pattern we see today

This is the full text of a speech delivered by Lord Eric Pickles at Northwood and Ruislip Synagogue on Yom Hashoah, April 14, 2026

13 min read

April 16, 2026 12:50

Commemorative plaques on a railtrack leading to the site of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp (Image: Getty)

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