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Justice minister rejects claim of ‘two tier’ justice and policing

But West Midlands Police have ‘questions to answer’ over Maccabi fan fan, says Sarah Sackman at Jewish Labour Movement one-day conference

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January 11, 2026 13:40

Justice minister Sarah Sackman at the Jewish Labour Movement's conference (standing).

tikkun olam

How a Mitford sister came to hear about tikkun olam

The Hebrew phrase was namechecked in a recent TV drama

3 min read

January 11, 2026 12:54

Confidants: Nancy Mitford (played by Bessie Carter) in the series Outrageous with her Jewish friend Joss (Will Attenborough)

Chief Rabbi

Chief Rabbi: Accusing Israel of genocide is a troubling moral deceit which trivialises the term

Sir Ephraim Mirvis raises concern over “so-called human rights organisations which appear to revel in misappropriating” the charge

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January 11, 2026 12:15

Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis (Photo by Alastair Grant / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)

Travel

South Africa with a Jewish flavour

Two centuries after the first Jew made it his home, the ‘Rainbow Nation’ is now a must-see corner of the diaspora. But for all its attractions – Big Five safaris, stunning coastlines – it’s still chained to the inequalities of its past

9 min read

January 11, 2026 12:07

Anti-Zionism

Stop incitement to violence against Jews police urged after protest outside Israeli restaurant

Call by Tory leader Kemi Badenoch follows anti-Zionist demonstration at Miznon’s Notting Hill branch

2 min read

January 11, 2026 11:43

Police at the protest outside the Miznon restaurant in Notting Hill (Image: X)

JTeen

Mental health crisis in young people has reached ‘breaking point’ says charity

Over 50 per cent of JTeen callers are struggling with anxiety and depression

3 min read

January 10, 2026 17:00

JTeen has received an increase in calls and text messages from teenagers facing severe mental health struggles (Photo: Getty)

Sydney terror attack

Bondi hero Ahmed al-Ahmed honoured with gold menorah by Jewish billionaire Bill Ackman

Al-Ahmed, who is Muslim, wore a kippah to the event in NYC where he was presented with the gift

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January 9, 2026 16:59

Bill Ackman presenting Ahmed al-Ahmed with the golden menorah at the NYC Chabad gala (Image: X: Ryan Rozbiani)

Tony Blair

Tony Blair’s sister-in-law describes October 7 as being ‘legendary’ for Muslims

Lauren Booth expressed her ‘annoyance’ with Palestinians for their lack of determination to ‘hate all Jews’

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January 9, 2026 16:23

Lauren Booth, sister-in-law of former prime minister Tony Blair, pictured in 2011 (Photo: Getty)

Iranians are rising against the Islamic Republic’s war on their civilisation

From the moment it seized power, the regime sought to overwrite the people’s ancient identity with a rigid, imported ideology to control their collective memory.

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January 9, 2026 15:28

Protestors raise Iran’s pre-revolutionary flag of the Lion and the Sun in Khorramabad atop an Islamic Republic clerical statue. (Image: X)

New York

Workers at Israeli-owned NYC bakery demand ‘end of Zionist projects’ in unionisation push

Employees of Breads Bakery, famous for its babka and rugelach, specifically cited the business’s participation in a Jewish food festival, which they claimed was connected to IDF fundraising

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January 9, 2026 14:47

Interior of a Breads Bakery branch in New York (YouTube)

Media

Contributors who glorified killing of Israelis and Jews were allowed on BBC Arabic, head of news admits

The BBC failed to adequately scrutinise guests’ social media history, the corporation’s head of news has said

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January 9, 2026 14:16

BBC headquarters in central London (Getty Images)

Books

The Jewish woman who parachuted into Nazi-occupied Europe

Jennifer Lipman meets the author of a new book about Zionist paratrooper and poet Hannah Senesh

6 min read

January 9, 2026 14:13

Jewish Joan of Arc: Hannah Senesh and Douglas Century with his book Crash of Heavens

UAE

UAE stops funding students coming to Britain over fears of Islamist radicalisation

The Gulf state has for years criticised the British government’s refusal to proscribe the Muslim Brotherhood

2 min read

January 9, 2026 14:10

Protesters from London universities attend pro-Palestine demonstration in 2025 on second anniversary of October 7 attack on Israel (Dan Kitwood/Getty)

Books

Berlin Shuffle review: Pimps, prostitutes and peddlers in Weimar Germany

Hopeless cases, lowlifes and down-and-outs, the atmosphere in the extraordinarily talented Ulrich Boschwitz’s first novel feels like something from Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera

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January 9, 2026 13:58