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Shabbat times from July 18 to July 25

Shabbat times for the week

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July 17, 2025 19:42

Travel

Time stands still in these woodland hills

If you want to return from your holiday feeling less tired than when you left, head to Malvern in Worcestershire. The spa town also boasts more Jewish history than you might expect

4 min read

July 17, 2025 19:20

HIAS+JCORE

Teacher and campaigner honoured for work with refugees and asylum seekers

Deborah Koder and Abdullahi Yussuf received the HIAS+JCORE Dubs Awards

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July 17, 2025 17:50

Deborah Koder and Abdullahi Yussuf, winners of the Lord Dubs Awards, at the HIAS+JCORE annual event (Photo: Gaby Wine)

Obituary

Ralph Blumenau, history teacher dies aged 100

Refugee who became a ‘brilliant and inspiring’ history teacher at Malvern College

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July 17, 2025 17:07

Ralph Blumenau, history teacher dies aged 100

Druze

Who are the Druze and why is Israel defending them?

The long persecuted minority has been at the centre of a recent bout of sectarian violence in Syria, which saw the IDF bomb Damascus in support of the community

2 min read

July 17, 2025 15:52

The Druze have existed for over a millennium (Image: Getty)

The BBC’s mountainous ignorance, hidden behind a smug air of superiority

As Hillel Neuer dryly put it: ‘It’s really important that we are clear that BBC News has a pro-terrorist wing, and a completely separate wing that are just idiots’

2 min read

July 17, 2025 15:07

Head of BBC News Deborah Turness poses for photographs at the unveiling of an English Heritage blue plaque, marking the home of BBC executive Grace Wyndham Goldie, one of the only female executives at the BBC in the 1930s. (Image: Getty)

Ireland

‘I’m half-Jewish and half-Irish – this is how I see the Ireland of today’

Amid rising antisemitism in the Emerald Isle, my biography – the exact same as James Joyce’s Leopold Bloom – is causing me more than a few headaches

6 min read

July 17, 2025 14:45

An anti-Israel rally in Dublin last month

Russia

Century-old siddur found during preservation of Siberian synagogue

The wooden prayer hall was erected in Tomsk by Jews who'd been taken as children and forcefully conscripted to the Tsar’s army for 20 years.

1 min read

July 17, 2025 14:40

Workers preserving the Soldiers' Synagogue in Tomsk, Siberia discovered a century-old siddur hidden in the attic (Image: Canaan Lidor)

FABAA

Paws and Palwins: fashion insiders and their pampered pooches gather for kiddush in Freud’s garden

Guests feasted on heart-shaped challah and pistachio rugelach, while their four-legged friends played with bespoke blue “matzo balls”

2 min read

July 17, 2025 14:38

Paws and Palwins: (right) Pini Brown makes bracha over heart-shaped challah, (left) DJ, writer and curator Martin Green and photography consultant Susie Babchick with her dog, Jeanie Jean (Image: FABAA)

Antisemitism

Islamic radio station that said Jews ‘kill prophets’ accuses Ofcom of ‘Islamophobia’

Salaam BCR broadcast a speech by a radical imam declaring Jews ‘the biggest enemies of humanity’ less than two weeks after the October 7 massacres

1 min read

July 17, 2025 14:10

An Islamic radio station was fined by Ofcom after broadcasting an antisemitic sermon from Pakistani imam Shuja Uddin Sheikh (Image: YouTube/@ShujaUddinSheikh)

The UN’s anti-Israel inquisition is falling apart – finally

All three commissioners of the UNHRC’s “permanent inquiry” into Israel have abruptly quit after their colleague Albanese was hit with UN sanctions. If it was so easy to get rid of them, why wasn’t action taken sooner?

3 min read

July 17, 2025 13:52

Navi Pillay, former chair of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory in Geneva, on June 18, 2025. (Image: Getty)

Theatre

That Bastard, Puccini! review: ‘grips from start to finish’★★★★★

James Inverne takes a forgotten piece of operatic history and turns it into an engrossing piece of theatre. You’ll love it even if you know nowt about Puccini

2 min read

July 17, 2025 13:49

Alasdair Buch, Lisa-Anne Wood and Sebastien Torkia on stage in That Bastard, Puccini! (Photo: David Monteith-Hodge)

Hamas

Leaked recording shows BBC News CEO defending ‘inaccurate’ Gaza documentary

Deborah Turness appeared to attempt to draw a distinction between Hamas’ military and political wings after it emerged that the film’s narrator was the son of an official in the terror group’s government in Gaza

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July 17, 2025 13:34