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Titanic

Gold pocket watch owned by Jewish Titanic victims who gave up lifeboat spots to save others goes to auction

Isidor and Ida Straus were on the second leg of their journey back from Europe when they boarded the doomed vessel

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November 17, 2025 15:49

Isidor and Ida Straus both died on the Titanic (Image: RMS Titanic Inc)

October 7

UCL reopens probe into student who allegedly told Jewish student ‘October 7 was justified and reasonable’

A caseworker at the university previously said that no disciplinary action would be taken

2 min read

November 17, 2025 15:38

A UCL building plastered with Palestine stickers (Photo: Getty Images)

The chutzpah of the self-styled Independent Muslim MPs

Iqbal Mohamed stood for election on a platform of being a Muslim MP, who was elected because he stood as a Muslim MP, and who has consistently described himself as a Muslim MP – and yet complains that he is painted as being ‘sectarian’

3 min read

November 17, 2025 13:57

Schools

Jewish parents given £20k payout after ‘unlawful’ arrest over school criticism

Rosalind Levine and Maxie Allen had been banned from entering Cowley Hill Primary School after expressing their discontent in a parents’ WhatsApp group

2 min read

November 17, 2025 13:52

Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine with their daughters, Sascha, nine, and Francesca, three (Image: Rosalind Levine)

Rabbis

I never intended to be a rabbi: How Rabbis Shlomo Levin and Joseph Dweck found their pulpit

Two leading Orthodox rabbis revealed how they came to accept their vocation

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November 17, 2025 11:28

Rabbi Joseph Dweck in conversation with Rabbi Shlomo Levin (Photo: Bobby Bray)

Ehud Olmert

Ehud Olmert speech at Oxford Union heavily disrupted amid pro-Palestine backlash

Protestors blocked the entrance to the union building, chanted about genocide and held up hands dipped in red paint

1 min read

November 17, 2025 11:13

Pro-Palestine activists in the Oxford Union chamber, protesting a speech by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on November 16, 2025 (Image: X/Adrian Hilton)

Israeli Politics

Coalition shuts down prospect of state inquiry into October 7 failings

Instead, an independent panel appointed by ministers will examine the lead-up to the terror attacks, reportedly including the impact of anti-government protests on Hamas’ decision-making

1 min read

November 17, 2025 11:04

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the plenum hall of the Knesset on November 10, 2025 (Flash90)

United Nations

UN Security Council to vote on second phase of Trump peace plan

Israel has raised concerns about the plan’s apparent commitment to establishing a Palestinian state

1 min read

November 17, 2025 10:50

A UN Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the question of Palestinian statehood, during the UN General Assembly on September 23, 2025, in New York City (Getty Images)

Hostages

‘Around half’ of hostages were sexually abused in captivity

Former captives reported instances of sexual coercion, gang rape and humiliation

1 min read

November 17, 2025 10:05

A man fixes a sticker reading 'home' on a poster showing one of the recently released hostages on October 14, 2025 (Getty Images)

First World War

Thousands attend annual AJEX parade to honour the Jews who served in the World Wars

The Jewish community came together on Sunday to remember their fallen soldiers and to show resilience

4 min read

November 16, 2025 19:03

The annual AJEX remembrance day was held on November 16 (Image: Justin Grainge)

Al Jazeera

Israeli Embassy condemns Glasgow University rector for ‘disgraceful’ accusation of organ harvesting

During an interview last week, Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah claimed Palestinian corpses showed evidence of surgical organ removal

2 min read

November 16, 2025 14:41

British-Palestinian plastic surgeon specialising in conflict injuries Ghassan Abu Sitta speaks to the press during a pro-Palestinian demonstration at UCL in May, 2024 (Photo: Getty)

UKLFI

NHS ‘Jewish supremacy’ doctor suspended for nine months following tribunal hearing

Dr Ellen Kriesels will have license suspended during GMC investigation into alleged antisemitic conduct

3 min read

November 16, 2025 14:10

Dr Ellen Kriesels' banner that she displayed on anti-Israel marches (Photo: X/UKLFI)

Books

The English houses brought to life with Jewish stories

The art historian Dan Cruikshank tells the story of the English house through eight very different buildings and, in the process, tells the story of the Jews in England

2 min read

November 16, 2025 13:36

The English houses brought to life with Jewish stories

Trump peace plan

US plan for post-war Gaza to offer ‘pathway to Palestinian statehood’

On Monday the UN Security Council will vote on a resolution to codify the US’s 20-point peace plan for Gaza

1 min read

November 16, 2025 13:14

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, EGYPT - OCTOBER 13: U.S. President Donald Trump poses with the signed agreement at a world leaders' summit on ending the Gaza war on October 13, 2025 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. (Photo: Getty)

Politics

You can’t always keep politics out of the pulpit

Rabbis can’t be expected to shy away from contentious issues

4 min read

November 16, 2025 11:54

Zohran Mamdani (centre), the radical Democrat who was elected Mayor of New York earlier this month (photo: Getty Images)

Cancer

Family raise £200,000 to get life-saving cancer treatment for their son, four

Raffi Starkowitz’s family have now increased their fundraising goal to £300,000 to cover future treatment and educational support and to fund research into Raffi’s rare type of brain cancer

3 min read

November 16, 2025 11:15

Family raise £200,000 to get life-saving cancer treatment for their son, four

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