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Culture

Jewish TV, film and music to see this summer, from Alanis Morissette to The Fantastic Four

Glastonbury is over, but there’s a treasure trove of culture ahead

5 min read

July 11, 2025 17:49

Canadian singer Alanis Morissette performs on stage on the first day of the Estereo Picnic music festival at Simon Bolivar park in Bogota on March 27, 2025. (Photo by Alejandro Gonzalez / AFP) (Photo by ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Books

The Scrapbook by Heather Clark review: ‘I wanted to know what his grandfather had done in the war’

This is a beautiful and powerful debut novel examining intergenerational trauma, inherited guilt and all-consuming love

1 min read

July 11, 2025 17:11

The Scrapbook by Heather Clark review: ‘I wanted to know what his grandfather had done in the war’

Education

Largest US teachers’ union endorses proposal to ban ADL material on antisemitism, Holocaust

The National Education Association voted in favour of cutting ties to the Anti-Defamation League over perceived pro-Israel bias

3 min read

July 11, 2025 15:00

The National Education Association, America's largest teachers' union, has voted to bar members from using education materials by the Anti-Defamation League, an antisemitism watchdog group. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for National Education Association)

albania

Albanian ship captain drowns rescuing two Israeli tourists in Lake Shkodra

Arben Anamali died after jumping in to save Israeli tourists who ignored his warning of dangerous currents in Albanian lake

1 min read

July 11, 2025 14:57

Captain Arben Anamali died rescuing two Israeli tourists from drowning in Albanian Lake Shkodra this past week.

IDF

IDF lawyers ‘raised concerns’ about plans to confine Gazans to new ‘humanitarian city’

Proponents claim the proposal will help to destroy Hamas and end the war

1 min read

July 11, 2025 14:19

The IDF's legal branch has reportedly raised concerns about Defence Minister Israel Katz's plan to relocate Gaza's entire population to a new 'humanitarian city' in Rafah

The deaths of soldiers are due to the evil of Hamas, not because they didn’t study Torah hard enough

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef seemed to connect lapses in religious learning to the deaths of five Charedi servicemen, but how could anyone know such a thing?

3 min read

July 11, 2025 13:27

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef seemed to connect lapses in religious learning to the deaths of five Charedi servicemen (Image: Flash90)

Books

The Age of Hitler review: What's next for the West? And will it be good for the Jews?

This is an incisive and persuasive account of how the story of the Second World World has been the West’s defining narrative of the past 80 years. But when the author predicts the resurgence of a Christian tradition, his polemic becomes vaporous

2 min read

July 11, 2025 12:26

Holocaust

Pro-Gaza MPs comparing Israel to Nazis brought shame onto Parliament

To weaponise the most painful events in Jewish history, to which some Jews alive today are witnesses, is to play with fire.

2 min read

July 11, 2025 11:50

Adnan Hussain MP (Image: Parliament TV).

The Wohl Legacy

‘First of its kind’ inclusive early years centre in Israel, thanks to UK donors

The Wohl Legacy and the Wolfson Family Charitable Trust helped fund the Beit Raz campus in Ra’anana

2 min read

July 11, 2025 11:45

The Beit Raz Campus (Photo: Beit Issie Shapiro)

Iran

Iran poses an increased threat to British Jews, says intelligence committee

Government has not developed ‘longer-term thinking and a real understanding of Iran’, argues report

3 min read

July 11, 2025 11:10

Iranian Basij militia parade to mark the 25th anniversary of its foundation by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran, Iran on November 26, 2005. (Photo by Hossein Fatemi / Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP) (Photo by HOSSEIN FATEMI/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

IDF

‘I have to help my son father a child after his death,’ says mother of fallen IDF soldier

Sharon Eisenkot’s son Maor was killed in Gaza in 2023. Two years on, she’s fighting for the right to use his sperm to start a family he’ll never meet

3 min read

July 11, 2025 10:56

Maor and Sharon Eizenkot on Sharon's last visit to her son, approximately two weeks before he entered Gaza and was killed - credit: Sharon Eizenkot

Edinburgh

Edinburgh and Glasgow go head to head in table tennis tournament

The Mrs Raie Levstein Cup takes its name from a former EHC member, who was a formidable table tennis player in her youth

1 min read

July 11, 2025 10:52

EHC and Maccabi Glasgow table tennis teams: (l-r) Jonathan Danzig, Derek Tobias, Tom Griffin, Nick Silk, John Danzig, Ilia Kutzenov, Norman Tenby, Sue Sinclair, Andy McIntyre, and Fergus Craig (Photo: Carol Levstein)

IDF

IDF strike on medical centre ‘under review’ after civilian casualties

The military said it was targeting a terrorist involved in the October 7 attacks, but several children are also believed to have died

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July 11, 2025 10:42

The IDF confirmed a strike in Deir al-Balah on Thursday is 'under review' after reports of civilian casualties (Pictured: Rubble following an earlier strike in the Deir al-Balah area on July 1; Image: Getty)

Charedi

Former Israeli chief rabbi suggests IDF deaths are linked to ‘neglecting’ Torah study

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, the influential spiritual leader of the Shas party, made the comments following the deaths of five soldiers from a strictly-Orthodox unit

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July 11, 2025 10:09