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Can the Chief Rabbi and a Netflix shadchan find you a match?

Jewish Matchmaking star Aleeza Ben Shalom and World Mizrachi are partnering with the Chief Rabbi to bring global community-based Jewish Matchmaking Movement to the UK

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September 18, 2025 15:22

Aleeza Ben Shalom and Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, pictured meeting in Israel, are partnering to bring the Jewish Matchmaking Movement to the UK. (Office of The Chief Rabbi)

Neither Balfour nor Britain created Israel. The Jews did

The past can be celebrated or lamented, critiqued and revised, but it cannot be undone

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September 18, 2025 15:21

Arthur Balfour (standing) at the first council of the League of Nations held in St James Palace in London, England, 26th February 1920 (Image: Getty)

In dark times, the new year calls us to unity, faith and hope

The belief that tomorrow can be better and the duty to help make it so is Judaism’s gift to the world and our legacy

2 min read

September 18, 2025 15:16

The Merneptah stele which claimed that “Israel is laid waste” more than 3,000 years ago (Image: Wikimedia)

‘No storm has ever had the power to sweep us away’

The Chief Rabbi’s message for Rosh Hashanah

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September 18, 2025 15:14

Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis takes part in a 'National march for the Hostages' organised by Stop the Hate UK, in central London on August 10, 2025. (Image: Getty)

MMR

Community urged to get vaccinated following measles outbreaks in Hackney and Haringey

Between 2022 and 2023, Hackney and City of London had the lowest percentages in the city for children vaccinated with the MMR

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September 18, 2025 14:56

Parents are being urged to book their children in for an MMR following a measles outbreak in Hackney and Haringey (Photo: Getty)

Rabbis

Over 100 rabbis question EU leaders over ‘future for Jews in Europe’

More than 130 rabbis called for greater protection for synagogues and community sites amid surging antisemitism across the continent

2 min read

September 18, 2025 14:45

A police officer on patrol outside a French synagogue after October 7 (Image: Getty)

Theatre

‘I love playing a Jewish villain’

Israeli actor Neta Roth explains why she can’t wait to bring the biblical figure Salomé to life in the hotly anticipated West End production of Oscar Wilde’s eponymous play this month

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September 18, 2025 14:35

An ‘Israel genocide’ finding by a body dedicated to attacking Israel is not a finding

Even former UN general secreatary Ban Ki-moon has condemned the anti-Israel bias of the Human Rights Council

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September 18, 2025 13:22

A diplomat observes the room a the opening of the 57th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on September 9, 2024 (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)

AIPAC

Exclusive: Pro-Israel influencers targeted by activist posing as Zionist lobby group

It appears the culprit was trying to get his targets to ‘admit’ to wrongdoing by Israel, including suggesting that the IDF would massacre civilians

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September 18, 2025 13:12

Mona Molayem (left) and Danielle Yablonka (right) say they were targeted by a man claiming to be from AIPAC (Image: Mona Molayem, Danielle Yablonka)

Israel

Two Israelis killed in terror shooting at Jordan border crossing

Another bystander was “critically wounded”, while attacker was ‘neutralised’ at the scene, according to initial reports

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September 18, 2025 13:10

Israeli security forces near the scene where two Israelis were killed in a terror shooting attack at Allenby bridge, a crossing between West Bank and Jordan, September 18, 2025 (Image: Flash90)

Interfaith

A rabbi and an imam walk into a school… and change hearts and minds

Rabbi Dovid Lewis and Imam Nasser Kurdy say there is power in showing empathy

4 min read

September 18, 2025 13:06

Rabbi Dovid Lewis and Imam Nasser Kurdy (Photo: MEN Media)

Canada

Man who punched Montreal Jew as his children clung to him ruled ‘not criminally responsible’

Court finds that the attacker was experiencing a psychotic episode at the time of the incident

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September 18, 2025 12:44

The man was attacked in a park in Montreal and his kippah thrown on the ground (Image: X/@gidonsaar)

Sadiq Khan

Sadiq Khan criticised for labelling Gaza war a ‘genocide’

London Mayor slammed for comment following publication of contested UN report

3 min read

September 18, 2025 12:38

WOLVERHAMPTON, UNITED KINGDOM - MAY 13: London mayor Sadiq Khan attends a meeting with Labour's mayors at the GTG training centre on May 13, 2024 in Wolverhampton, United Kingdom. The first meeting since local elections outlined the mayor's strategies for enhancing regional growth goals in Labour's devolution agenda. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

The UN’s genocide charge against Israel is built on lies

The inquiry erases context, twists language, launders enemy claims into fact, whitewashes the crimes of Hamas, and stretches legal definitions until self-defense itself becomes a crime

2 min read

September 18, 2025 12:21