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‘No mainstream Orthodox rabbinic body anywhere recognises women as rabbis’

While women can take leadership roles in an Orthodox community, halachic boundaries remain, argues a veteran rabbi

3 min read

January 20, 2026 10:42

Breaking the mould: graduates of New York's Yeshivat Maharat, which ordains women as rabbis

Macron declines Board of Peace invitation as signing ceremony set for Davos

The new body’s apparent intentions to rival the UN, as well as the prospective involvement of Vladimir Putin, have caused alarm in the Élysée Palace

2 min read

January 20, 2026 10:30

French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a meeting on the institutional future of New Caledonia at the Elysee Palace in Paris on January 16, 2026 (Getty Images)

The stress of campus life is taking a profound toll on our children

Simply being Jewish on campus can be a source of constant, underlying anxiety – it should not be that way

3 min read

January 19, 2026 17:32

Edinburgh University activists took over the Old College quad in 2024, demanding that the institution divest from Israeli-linked companies (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Universities

UK Jewish student pushed down stairs and others faced ‘genocide’ questions, chaplaincy group reveals

University Jewish Chaplaincy said they were just two examples out of hundreds of incidents that it has logged over the past year

2 min read

January 19, 2026 17:31

October 7

Yarden Bibas shares painful third-birthday message to ‘beloved’ son Kfir

Slain hostage Kfir Bibas was taken captive when he was just nine months old, and his brother Ariel was four

1 min read

January 19, 2026 16:17

Kfir Bibas was abducted alongside his brother Ariel, four, and their mother Shiri, aged 32 (Photo: Family handout)

Holocaust remembrance

Thousands of free falafel handed out in honour of Holocaust survivor David Leitner

The falafel free-for-all is an annual affair now in its eleventh year

1 min read

January 19, 2026 15:27

Volunteers hand out falafel on in Glasgow (Credit: Glasgow Friends of Israel)

Washington DC

US will pursue death penalty against Washington embassy shooting suspect

‘The sad truth is, for way too long, antisemitism has been allowed to grow unchecked in this country,’ said Attorney General Pam Bondi

2 min read

January 19, 2026 15:04

Attorney General Pam Bondi, accompanied by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche (L) and FBI Director Kash Patel (R), speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department on November 19, 2025 in Washington, DC (Getty Images)

US Politics

Jewish Pennsylvania governor claims Harris campaign team asked if he was ‘Israeli double agent’

‘I just had a knot in my stomach through all of it’, wrote Josh Shapiro in his upcoming memoir

2 min read

January 19, 2026 14:46

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and Dr Neeli Bendapudi, President of Pennsylvania State University, speak at the inaugural Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit at Carnegie Mellon University on July 15, 2025 (Getty Images)

Florida

Jewish baker dies in freak accident involving industrial dough mixer

Mordehay Grunberger, who worked at the South Florida Kosher Market, was making challah at the time

1 min read

January 19, 2026 14:30

The baker, known to friends and family as Miki, pictured with his wife of 30 years, Inna Maor (Picture: Facebook/ Inna Maor)

Israel

Uber poised to return to Israel as Knesset vote set

Rideshare services have been largely absent from the Jewish state since 2023, but a new bill looks set to clear away some of the regulatory hurdles

1 min read

January 19, 2026 14:13

An Uber ride-sharing car in motion (Getty Images)

Iran

‘Iran will recognise Israel immediately’ if Islamic Republic falls, exiled crown prince vows

Under Reza Pahlavi, a ‘free Iran’ would ‘pursue the expansion of the Abraham Accords’

2 min read

January 19, 2026 13:54

Exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi (Image: Getty Images)

Sydney terror attack

Pebbles, flowers and a list of names: my visit to the Bondi Beach memorial

‘By the time the rabbi said Kaddish I was in pieces. I cried.’

5 min read

January 19, 2026 12:22

The pebbles at the memorial on Bondi Beach (Photo: Lawrence Cohen)

synagogue music

Let’s sing! Shuls invited to sign up for festival of music

‘From Our Lips’ is running for the second time throughout the UK

2 min read

January 19, 2026 12:21

Cantor Zöe Jacobs from Finchley Reform Synagogue

Donald Trump

Trump’s personal lawyer proposes US provide asylum for British Jews

British-born Robert Garson says the UK is ‘no longer a safe place’ for Jews and offered to train ‘any Jewish person that wants to learn’ how to handle a firearm

1 min read

January 19, 2026 12:20

Robert Garson (third from right) stands behind President Trump during the swearing-in ceremony for US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor (not pictured) in the Oval Office in November 2025 (Getty Images)

Jerusalem

Fifty-five children injured and two babies killed after ‘gas leak’ at Jerusalem nursery

Medics reported to have been running in and out of the building, carrying multiple babies and young children at a time

1 min read

January 19, 2026 12:14

Rescue and security forces at the scene where toddlers were taken ill in Jerusalem (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Syria

Syrian forces take Raqqa after new ceasefire with Kurdish militias

President al-Sharaa recently signed a declaration guaranteeing the embattled minority equal rights as part of an integration plan

2 min read

January 19, 2026 11:58

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa announces a presidential proclamation extending full legal equality to the Kurdish minority, reinstating the citizenship of stateless Syrian Kurds and enshrining Kurdish as a national language (X/RagipSoylu)

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