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What is the Counting of the Omer?

The Omer is like a countdown from national liberation at Pesach to the defining religious moment of Jewish peoplehood, the revelation at Sinai.

Le Pen denial over Holocaust round-up is ‘insult to France’

Jewish leaders express revulsion over comments by the far-right presidential candidate

10 T-Shirts for Pesach

You've cleaned your house and you've overspent (again). But what to wear? We have some ideas for you...

Police ask Twitter for name of Unite election candidate abuser

Gerard Coyne was targeted with antisemitic hate on Twitter from an alleged Len McCluskey backer after his interview with The JC - now police seek to find out the real name of his abuser

Bannon v Kushner: a battle for the soul of the White House

Bannon's 'America First' nationalism seems to be proving less successful than Kushner's pragmatism

Dinkin makes wasteful Masters pay the penalty

Dan Shafron admits fortune smiled on his side as North London Raiders A reached the final of the Peter Morrison Trophy after a titanic scrap against a star-studded Lions team.

Pesach breakfast ideas

Breakfast is the most difficult meal over this eight day carb-fast, so I thought I'd share some of my favourites.

WATCH: Lions Masters vs Raiders A

North London Raiders reached the final of the Peter Morrison Trophy thanks to a penalty from David Dinkin against Lions Masters at Rowley Lane.

JC team of the week: the contenders - April 9

Here are the nominations from Matchday 28 of the season.

Maccabi Masters round-up: April 9

Cup finalists Brady Maccabi A completed their league fixtures with a 6-2 win over Scrabble.

Ghan in four days - a train ride across Australia

Our writer follows in the footsteps of camels as she traverses Australia on the famous Ghan train

Cork anti-Israel conference little more than a freak show

Calls to ban a conference openly questioning Israel's right to exist would only have served to offer more publicity to a collection of speakers whose appearances in Cork proved they had nothing of importance to say

How El Al almost grounded Pesach

A late change to departure time could have scuppered Passover plans for UK Jews

Court backs get for woman in ground-breaking ruling

The High Court in Jerusalem upheld the decision of a rabbinical court in Safed to grant her a divorce from her comatose husband.

Court backs get for woman in ground-breaking ruling

Kushner becomes Super Jared, Trump’s Secretary of Everything

Mr Kushner, 36, who is an Orthodox Jew and married to Ivanka Trump, is being called the “Secretary of State for Everything” by American TV channels.