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Hamas

Foreign Office officials ‘met Hamas terrorists’ to discuss Gaza funding despite ‘no contact’ policy

The department did not deny the meeting, but said it was involuntary and had no bearing on the group's proscription

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September 22, 2025 10:04

The Foreign Office in Whitehall, London (Image: Getty)

Green Party

Green deputy leader ‘personally caused harm and distress to my family’ former Leeds University rabbi says

Mothin Ali labelled Rabbi Zecharia Deutsch – forced into hiding after it emerged he had returned to Israel for reserve duty – a “creep” in a now-deleted video

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September 21, 2025 13:18

United States

New Hampshire shooter reportedly shouted “free Palestine”

One person was killed and two others injured at a country club shooting

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September 21, 2025 12:41

Emergency services at Sky Meadow Country Club (Image: Fox News)

Rosh Hashanah

Stephen Hawking’s cosmology, the birthday of the world and our struggles to be faithful

The questions that confront us on Rosh Hashanah can seem overwhelming but our liturgy offers the reassuring image of God as a loving parent

4 min read

September 21, 2025 12:32

Professor Stephen Hawking delivering a lecture on 'The Origin of the Universe' in Jerusalem in 2006 (photo: Getty Images)

Hamas

Starmer recognises Palestine despite last minute plea from hostage families

Jewish communal groups, the Conservatives and Reform UK have criticised the prime minister’s decision as a reward to terror that will undermine efforts to free the captives

4 min read

September 21, 2025 10:14

Sir Keir Starmer (right) with Palestinian Authority President Mahmood Abbas (Image: Getty).

Books

Children’s books: The season’s new titles for tots, teens and those in between

From marvellous mucoid humour to a madcap fairy tale, here is the best new fiction for kids

1 min read

September 19, 2025 19:04

Children’s books: The season’s new titles for tots, teens and those in between

Liberal Democrats

Ed Davey criticised for calling Gaza war a ‘genocide’ following controversial UN report

The Liberal Democrat leader’s use of the charged legal term has angered some members of his party

2 min read

September 19, 2025 17:01

Sir Ed Davey, the leader of the Liberal Democrats (Photo: Getty)

Israel

Nearly 40% of Americans think US is too supportive of Israel, poll finds

One in four Americans believe the US is offering Israel the right amount of support

2 min read

September 19, 2025 16:28

Just one in 10 respondents said the US is not providing enough assistance to Israel (Photo: JNS)

Health

Acute trauma ‘can trigger OCD symptoms’, study of October 7 survivors indicates

Clinicians risk missing the OCD symptoms, diagnosing only PTSD instead

1 min read

September 19, 2025 15:29

Family members and friends visit in Kibbutz Beeri, a year after the October 7 massacre (Photo: Flash90)

The United Synagogue

United Synagogue in bid to increase Board representation

US seeks to strengthen voice in Board of Deputies after shul in Essex pulls out

3 min read

September 19, 2025 15:25

Board of Deputies newly elected officers: (from left), Ben Crowne, Andrew Gilbert, Phil Rosenberg, Adrian Cohen, Jeremy Michelson

When ‘as a Jew’ actually means “against the Jews’

Hannah Einbinder and other celebrities invoke a hollow Jewish identity to denounce Israel, while leaving the rest of us to face the violence their words help unleash

2 min read

September 19, 2025 15:01

US actress Hannah Einbinder (Image: Getty)

MEPs criticise Ursula von der Leyen for ‘rewarding terror’ with Israel sanction plans

Ursula von der Leyen has been accused of ‘bowing down to the left’

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September 19, 2025 14:21

EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen originally offered unqualified support for Israel in the wake of the October 7 atrocities (Image: Getty)

Rosh Hashanah

The cry of an anxious mother that transcends national borders

From the prophetess Deborah to a Roald Dahl tale – the explanation behind the notes of shofar

5 min read

September 19, 2025 12:43

The Mother of Sisera anxiously waits for her son (Joseph Albert Moore, 1861)

When international law becomes anti-Israel theatre

At one of the discipline’s most prestigious conferences, Francesca Albanese’s absurd ‘genocide’ claims drew no challenge. This isn't scholarship; it is activism masquerading as expertise

3 min read

September 19, 2025 12:34