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Letters to the Editor, October 10 2025

Readers – many non-Jewish – react to the attack on Heaton Park Synagogue on Yom Kippur

Supportive messages from non-Jews filled my inbox. All I could reply was ‘Thank you. It begins. Again’

Israel and Hamas agree peace deal to end Gaza War

Latest reports suggest that the remaining living hostages could return on Saturday

Shabbat and Yom Tov times from October 10 to October 17

Shabbat, Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah times for the coming week

Smoked fish savant Saul Zabar of Zabar’s deli dies at 97

The so-called ‘lox smith’ of New York City helped turn his parent’s smoked fish store into an iconic and globally-renowned food enterprise

Starmer brands October 7 Pro-Palestine protests ‘un-British’

The prime minister also claimed the government would do everything in its power to bring the remaining hostages home

Nigel Farage: Antisemitism has infected the institutions of our country

Reform UK’s leader writes for the JC on the anniversary of October 7

Israeli-owned Tour de France team rebrands as backer Sylvan Adams steps back

The team was subject to aggressive protests at the Vuelta a España earlier this year

UK must dismantle Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood at home to protect the nation and its Jews

From banning hate preachers and extremist charities to ending engagement with radicals and putting antisemitism at the centre of counter-extremism, here are five steps the government must take after the Manchester terror attack

Students’ Gaza marches scheduled for October 7 are a ‘f***ing disgrace’

Anti-Israel student groups claim October 7 marks ‘two years since the beginning of the genocide in Gaza’

Neighbours allegedly reported Heaton Park attacker to police years before he carried out the terror attack in Manchester

The revelations call into question whether al-Shamie was known to police before he carried out the terrorist attack against Heaton Park Synagogue last week

‘I love the weather, the beaches and the sense of community. But I miss the book shops’

Daniel Ben-David and Gaby Wine speak to people who have made aliyah since October 7

Fundraiser launched for injured victim of Manchester shul attack

Andrew Franks was seriously injured while protecting other congregants from the terrorist

Keir Starmer’s ‘lamentation’ of Manchester attack is a ‘depraved opportunity for PR'

Author and former JC editor Jake Wallis Simons condemned the government for ‘hammering Israel’ for the past two years.

Greta Thunberg did not claim IDF ‘torture’ during flotilla deportation hearing

A Turkish activist who was detained alongside the 22-year-old claimed she had been beaten, dragged by her hair and forced to kiss an Israeli flag

Spare us the pearl-clutching from broadcasters who fan the flames of antisemitism

The broadcasters bewailing the terror attack in Manchester are the very people who have portrayed Israel as uniquely evil