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‘I was detained in Lebanon just for being a Jewish tourist’

Dan Brotman speaks about overhearing torture while in a cell and being handcuffed, blindfolded and denied access to essential medical care

6 min read

June 19, 2025 11:39

Dan Brotman in Beirut's Jewish cemetery in 2022, where he found graves dating as recently as 2018. (Photo courtesy of Dan Brotman)

Qatari money, priorities and interests are now woven into many US universities

Universities must reconsider their values, for the sake of America’s future

2 min read

June 19, 2025 11:16

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators gather for a mock trial against the University of Michigan's Board of Regents on the university's campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on April 21, 2025. (Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images)

Parliament

Exclusive: Israeli opposition leaders reject MP’s claim they backed UK sanctions

Stourbridge MP Cat Eccles claimed senior figures in the Knesset had told her tough measures against far-right Israeli ministers would be ‘helpful’

1 min read

June 19, 2025 11:04

Sidrah

Parashah of the week: Shelach Lecha

“We saw the Nephilim there – the Anakites are part of the Nephilim – and we looked like mere grasshoppers to ourselves, and so we must have looked to them” Numbers 13:33

1 min read

June 19, 2025 11:00

Monkey grasshoppers (Sharp Photography/Wikimedia Commons)

Iran

Trump ‘approved plan’ to strike Iran unless eleventh-hour ceasefire agreed

The president is reportedly ‘holding off’ in case Tehran agrees to give up its nuclear programme altogether

1 min read

June 19, 2025 10:42

President Trump has reportedly 'approved' a plan for direct US strikes against Iran (Image: Getty)

Salmon

Spiced blackened salmon tacos with orange salsa

A brilliantly low effort hot weather supper that’s full of zingy flavour

June 19, 2025 10:21

Cook time: 45 minutes

New York

Holocaust Museum accuses NY mayoral candidate of ‘exploiting’ Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by comparing it to intifada

Zohran Mamdani tried to “sanitize ‘globalize the intifada’” in a way that is “especially offensive to survivors,” the museum said.

2 min read

June 19, 2025 09:39

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 4: Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks during the New York City Democratic Mayoral Primary Debate at NBC Studios on June 4, 2025 in New York City. Nine candidates are taking the stage for the first debate of the primary election for mayor. (Photo by Yuki Iwamura-Pool/Getty Images)

Israel Briefing

JC Israel Briefing Day 622: Iran hits Israeli hospital

Plus, UK sign off needed for US iran strikes

2 min read

June 19, 2025 09:25

Iran struck an Israeli hospital in Be'er Sheva overnight (Image: Flash90)

Israel-Iran

Soroka hospital in Beersheva hit by Iranian ballistic missile

Six injured in other strikes by Iran this morning

2 min read

June 19, 2025 09:12

Israeli emergency services inspect a heavily damaged building at the site of an Iranian missile attack in Ramat Gan in central Israel (Getty Images)

Children

How would pupils mark their parents’ homework?

We need to take note of what children think is important about school

2 min read

June 19, 2025 06:41

Parents must resist the temptation to compare their children with other pupils in their class, says Rabbi Daniel Fine (Photo: Getty Images)

Rebbetzin Miriam Plancey

Community in grief and shock after much-loved rebbetzin passes away just days after husband

Miriam Plancey’s husband, Rabbi Alan Plancey, had died only five days earlier

1 min read

June 18, 2025 23:36

Community in grief and shock after much-loved rebbetzin passes away just days after husband

Travel

All about amazing Agadir

Looking for a weekend break in marvellous Morocco? This seaside town has it all

4 min read

June 18, 2025 17:43

Feline watchful: a cat perches on the on Kasbah of Agadir Oufella, the fortress built in 1572 to protect Agadir

Film

Review: F1 ★★★ A Pitt stop for Brad

This film about Formula One fails to pick up speed despite great action sequences

1 min read

June 18, 2025 17:43

Theatre

Review: Stereophonic ★★★★★ ‘Everything about this play is miraculous’

This play is a mesmerising dissection of the creative process

2 min read

June 18, 2025 17:35

So Seventies: Eli Gelb and Andrew R. Butler in Stereophonic (Photo: Marc Brenner)

Hostages

‘I feel like a mother to the soldiers who killed my son’

Iris Haim, the mother of former hostage, Yotam, who was killed after escaping captivity, was speaking in London

9 min read

June 18, 2025 17:30

‘I feel like a mother to the soldiers who killed my son’

JC blind date

The JC Blind Date: ‘I was hoping for a man who likes a challenge’

For this month’s blind date, Mark and Rebecca went out for an Indian meal. How spicy did things get?

4 min read

June 18, 2025 16:54

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