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So just how Jewish is Ed Miliband?

Born to parents who fled Nazi Europe, new foreign secretary is a self-described atheist with ambiguous relationship to Israel

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July 21, 2026 19:57

New Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband leaving 10 Downing Street on Monday (Yui Mok/PA Wire)

Abraham Events

‘We started an online community during Covid, and it’s still flourishing’

Abraham Events went onto Zoom during the pandemic. Today, it attracts people from all over the world

3 min read

July 21, 2026 18:22

Abraham Events in action (Photo: Gita Conn/Zoom)

Theatre

The Oresteia review: Aeschylus compellingly updated for our times ★★★★

Some will criticise Simon Stone’s adaptation for straying from the original trilogy but this is an evening of theatre you will not forget

2 min read

July 21, 2026 17:50

Cycle of violence: Mary-Louise Parker and David Morrissey (Credit: Johan Persson)

ballet

Swan Lake review: Dubious choreographic choices – but this Swan should still be seen ★★★

Some production issues notwithstanding, but this version of Tchaikovsky’s classic has spirit

2 min read

July 21, 2026 16:22

Ballet's bad girl: Mariam Lomjaria as Odile (Photo: Katia Ogrin)

Jerusalem

Charred Iron Age beams dating to destruction of Solomon’s Temple unearthed in Jerusalem

The find could transform scholarly knowledge of a pivotal event in Jewish history

1 min read

July 21, 2026 16:22

The excavation site where burnt wooden beams were discovered in the City of David (Credit: Reut Vilf, City of David)

Jewish Care

Jewish Care wins second national award for end-of-life care

Nightingale Hammerson trustee Dr Ros Taylor achieved a lifetime award at the same awards ceremony

2 min read

July 21, 2026 16:20

Jewish Care wins The Palliative & End of Life Care Team Award for residential care, presented by Kate Garraway to Paula Plaskow (centre), with Becky Williams from the Gold Standards Framework (Photo: Credit Care Talk Magazine and the Palliative and End of Life Care Awards)

Second World War

New museum sheds fresh light on the Jewish ‘secret listeners’ who helped save Britain from Nazis

Trent Park in north London was used by the British to bug Nazis – and Jewish refugees from Germany played a vital role

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July 21, 2026 15:22

An exhibit at Trent Park House of Secrets in Enfield

JDA

100-year-old Miriam gets surprise visit from the Chief Rabbi

The long-time member of the Jewish Deaf Association taught Rabbi Mirvis how to sign ‘Happy birthday’

1 min read

July 21, 2026 15:01

Miriam (centre) with the Chief Rabbi and JDA staff (Photo: JDA)

Israel

Viagra could be medics’ secret weapon against breast cancer, Israeli research finds

While the little blue pill is marketed as a gentleman’s bedroom aid, scientists as the Weizmann Institute found that it can also slow the rate at which aggressive cancers spread

3 min read

July 21, 2026 14:47

Boxes of Viagra on the shelves of the Keencare pharmacy in London on September 19, 2024 (Getty Images)

With ‘unapologetic Zionist’ Rachel Reeves out, who now will hold the line for Israel?

But amid some communal panic, Andy Burnham’s emerging cabinet could have been a lot worse

3 min read

July 21, 2026 14:00

Prime Minister Andy Burnham hosts his first Cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street, London. Picture date: Tuesday July 21, 2026. (Image: Eddie Mulholland/Daily Telegraph/PA Wire)

Australia

Australia has ‘disturbing parallels’ with Nazi Germany, says Shoah survivor representative

President of Holocaust survivors’ association was speaking to the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion

4 min read

July 21, 2026 12:41

Member of Parliament Josh Burns walks past the damaged Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne, December 10, 2024 (Credit: Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images)

Obituary

Visionary chemist Rudolph ‘Rudy’ A Marcus, dies aged 102

Marcus won the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and was just five days shy of his 103rd birthday

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July 21, 2026 11:57

Visionary chemist, Rudoph A. Marcus (Photo: US Department of Energy)

He enabled Corbyn, gave Assad butchery the green light – and now catastrophic Ed Miliband is our foreign secretary

We all know what is next: Burnham can now launch further sanctions against Israel with the support of a Jewish minister

2 min read

July 21, 2026 11:48

Ed Miliband arrives at Downing Street for Keir Starmer's final cabinet meeting on July 15, 2026 (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

Progressive Judaism

Rabbi Rebecca Birk to be new senior rabbi of LJS

The Finchley Progressive leader will take over at the flagship Liberal congregation from the retiring Rabbi Alexandra Wright

1 min read

July 21, 2026 11:33

Hungary

Jewish ‘Queen of chess’ Judit Polgár declines nomination for Hungarian president

Polgár said she doesn’t have the strength to ‘unite a divided nation’

1 min read

July 21, 2026 11:11

Judit Polgár attends the 'Queen Of Chess' Premiere during the 2026 Sundance Film Festival at Eccles Center Theater in Utah on January 27, 2026 (Credit: Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)

Iran

‘I’ve never met supreme leader,’ says Iranian foreign minister

Abbas Aragchi suggested that only ‘very small number’ of regime members have ever encountered Mojtaba Khamenei, who was previously rumoured to have died in US-Israeli strikes

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July 21, 2026 11:01

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (C) followed by Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein (L) arrive for a joint press conference following a meeting in Baghdad on June 28, 2026 (Getty Images)

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