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Covid

Covid surges in Israel with over 10,000 new cases on Sunday

The Health Ministry is set to meet on Tuesday to discuss reimposing Covid restrictions

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June 20, 2022 10:11

Magen David worker take a COVID-19 rapid antigen test from Israelis, at a Magen David Adom drive through complex in Jerusalem, on June 20, 2022. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90

Pfeffer's Israel

Israelis grow gloomy on future of the country

Half say the situation is worse than before Benjamin Netanyahu returned to power

1 min read

March 16, 2023 12:43

Likud leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu seen during a vote in the plenum session at the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on December 20, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 *** Local Caption *** כנסת מליאה הצבעה חברי כנסת חוק פקודת המשטרה בנימין נתניהו יו"ר הליכוד

More than 300 Covid deaths among British Jewry in 2021

Board of Deputies reports 310 Covid-related burials last year - and a total of 964 during the pandemic

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January 6, 2022 11:54

More than 300 Covid deaths among British Jewry in 2021

Tucker Carslon, the Great Replacement theory and Viktor Orban - and why you should be worried

The Fox News presenter uses his prominence to push worrying ideas

6 min read

June 20, 2022 14:35

ESZTERGOM, HUNGARY - AUGUST 07: Tucker Carlson speaks during the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) Feszt on August 7, 2021 in Esztergom, Hungary. The multiday political event was organized by the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), a privately managed foundation that recently received more than $1.7 billion in government money and assets. The leader of its main board, Balazs Orban, who is also a state secretary in the prime minister's office, said MCC's priority is promoting "patriotism" among the next generation of Hungary's leaders. (Photo by Janos Kummer/Getty Images)

Judaism

How old Is Judaism? The answer might be younger than you think

A new book argues the Torah may not have been widely recognised until the days of the Maccabees

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May 4, 2023 10:35

HERODION, WEST BANK - FILE PHOTO: This handout photo provided by the Israeli Government Press Office (GPO) shows the palace of King Herod nestled within the hilltop fortress of Herodion near the West Bank town of Bethlehem. Israeli archaeologist Prof. Ehud Netzer, of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, announced May 8, 2007 his recent discovery at Herodion of the tomb of the Herod the Great, the Roman-appointed Jewish king of Judea who reigned at the time of Jesus? birth. Netzer, who has been digging at Herodion for the past 35 years, said the tomb of the last of the Jewish kings was found on the northeastern slope of the artificial mountain. (Photo by Chanania Herman/GPO via Getty Images) *** Local Caption ***

BBC

BBC secretly reforms Arabic news output

BBC Arabic editors ordered to drop terrorist sympathiser pundit

3 min read

December 8, 2022 11:00

Science

How a young Jewish electronics expert helped win the War

The information young Londoner Jack Nissenthall gathered on a daring mission in Nazi-occupied Normandy played a vital role in D-Day planning

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August 19, 2022 11:09

How a young Jewish electronics expert helped win the War

Obituary: Jerry Springer

Charismatic American chat show host who played ringmaster to the ‘worst show in TV history’

3 min read

May 11, 2023 12:40

Jerry Springer Speaks To Guests During His Show December 17, 1998. The Show Which Features Violent Outbrusts And Adult Content Has Been Soaring In The Ratings. (Photo By Getty Images)

Reform Judaism

Essex shul votes to accept non-Jews as associate members

South West Essex Settlement and Reform's rabbi explains: 'We don't want non-Jewish partners to feel alienated'

2 min read

September 30, 2022 09:47

Essex shul votes to accept non-Jews as associate members

Labour Party

Veteran Labour activist Peter Willsman expelled from party

The former NEC member has been expelled more than two and a half years after an investigation was opened

1 min read

November 23, 2022 16:26

LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 04: NEC member Peter Willsman attends a meeting of the National Executive of Britain's Labour Party on September 4, 2018 in London, England. Labour's NEC meet today to vote on whether to adopt the full International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-semitism. (Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

Science

Israeli lab-grown chicken certified kosher in the United States

Ritual slaughter, shechita, is not required for the lab-grown meat product

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September 13, 2023 09:30

Israeli lab-grown chicken certified kosher in the United States

Shabbat times from February 11 to February 18

Shabbat times for the week

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February 11, 2022 09:28

Shabbat times from February 11 to February 18

Books

Book review: Blue Labour: The Politics of the Common Good - Feeling blue: one man’s plan for the party's future

New manifesto for Labour puts the emphasis on blue-collar values with a conservative bent to renew its historic solidarity with its working-class base

2 min read

October 20, 2022 12:13

Book review: Blue Labour: The Politics of the Common Good - Feeling blue: one man’s plan for the party's future

Why the Church is right to de-gender God

if God can be all things, why not a woman?

2 min read

February 8, 2023 12:18

LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 28: Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury, listens a speech during the Lord Mayor's Banquet at The Guildhall on November 28, 2022 in London, United Kingdom. This follows Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's speech at the CBI conference last week in which the PM put himself at odds with the lobbying group chief Tony Danker in terms of post-Brexit immigration policy. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

Israeli Politics

What do British Jews really think about Israel’s reforms?

London protest shows angst over the plans for Israel's judiciary is running high among British Jews, particularly among the young

2 min read

March 16, 2023 09:20

What do British Jews really think about Israel’s reforms?

Tehran TV review: A rehash of previous shows, sometimes even a rehash of itself, with a plot more thready than a spiderweb

Slick thriller series is largely unfathomable but never dull and does have a lot going for it

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May 12, 2022 14:54

Tehran TV review: A rehash of previous shows, sometimes even a rehash of itself, with a plot more thready than a spiderweb

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