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Jewish country life

Help! I’m no longer the only Jew in the village

Mark Solomons was revelling in the role... until another tribe member rolled up at his Suffolk outpost

3 min read

April 10, 2025 15:33

Modern exodus: Mark and his wife traded in their Essex home for a place in a sleepy village (Image: Getty)

Green Party

London Green Party councillor shared posts calling Zionism ‘pure evil’ and comparing it to Nazism

Hau-Yu Tam also praised the lawyers trying to de-proscribe Hamas in the UK

3 min read

April 10, 2025 14:28

Green councillor Hau-Yu Tam (centre) with the party's deputy leader Zack Polanksi (left)

Argentina

Argentina seeks arrest of Iranian Supreme Leader for 1994 bombing

Ali Khamenei ‘led the decision to carry out a bomb attack and issued an executive order or fatwa to carry it out’, prosecutor Sebastián Basso said

1 min read

April 10, 2025 14:21

People hold placards with portraits of victims of the terrorist bombing attack against the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) Jewish community centre that killed 85 people and injured 300 during the commemoration of its 23rd anniversary, in Buenos Aires, July 18, 2017 (Credit: JUAN MABROMATA/AFP via Getty Images)

Lammy’s indefensible comparison between totalitarian China and democratic Israel

The list of politicians banned by Britain is significant, and includes an Israeli. But suddenly it is considered a special affront that a nation at war is policing its borders from hostile actors

2 min read

April 10, 2025 13:45

Foreign Secretary David Lammy speaks as the United Nations Security Council meets to discuss the situation in the Middle East (photo: Getty Images)

From the JC archive: April 13 1945

The grim toll of the death camps; a Jewish flag brings hope

3 min read

April 10, 2025 13:02

2WERN7W OHRDRUF CONCENTRATION CAMP, Thuringia, Germany. General Dwight D. Eisenhower visits the camp shortly after its liberation on 4 April 1945 by US Fourth Armoured Division and the 890th Infantry Division. Here a camp survivor talks to Eisenhower next to the camp gallows.

October 7

‘I have no fear anymore’: the growth of Jewish grassroots in the wake of Oct 7

Ever since Hamas’ massacre, Jewish protest groups have made their voices heard across the UK, but are they divided or united?

5 min read

April 10, 2025 12:55

Hundreds mourn the Bibas family in a mock ‘funeral’ outside Parliament following the return of the bodies of Oded Lifshitz, Shiri Bibas and her two children, Ariel and Kfir on February 20

Yachad

What is the best way for our community to back Israel? The Jewish left and right make their cases

Communal organisations NJA and Yachad have spoken to the JC about how to talk about Israel since October 7

3 min read

April 10, 2025 12:51

Protestors wear flags of Israel on their backs as they march against anti-Semitism on November 26, 2023 in London, England (Getty)

Unity does not mean uniformity – diversity is a testament to our vitality

In difficult times, our leaders must strengthen the spirit, lift hearts and guide our people with wisdom, inspiration and faith

2 min read

April 10, 2025 12:46

A protester holds reading "Coexist" during a demonstration in central London, on November 26, 2023, to protest against antisemitism (Getty)

We are a family – and there is far more that unites us than divides us

The tragedy of October 7 and the ordeal of the hostages has brought the UK Jewish community together in grief, but also in determination

2 min read

April 10, 2025 12:38

Yarden Bibas being reunited with his sister, Ofri, and father, Eli (Photo: X)

I never felt part of the Jewish community. Since October 7 that’s all changed

Wonderful new friendships have sprung out of the devastation

2 min read

April 10, 2025 12:35

A man embraces two women as he holds posters identifying one of the hostages abducted by Palestinian militants during October 7 attack (Getty)

France

Macron: France to recognise Palestinian state in June

The French President suggested that the move could be used to put pressure on Arab states to return the favour with regard to Israel

1 min read

April 10, 2025 12:34

French President Emmanuel Macron announced intentions to recognise Palestinian statehood during an interview with French media on Wednesday (Image: Getty)

Where UK Jews agree – and disagree – after October 7

Attachment to Israel has grown but a significant minority has misgivings about the war

4 min read

April 10, 2025 12:31

Israel

We’re largely Zionists – but that doesn’t stop us rowing over Israel

What the British Jewish community thinks about Israel 18 months after October 7

6 min read

April 10, 2025 12:27

We’re largely Zionists – but that doesn’t stop us rowing over Israel

Immigration

US to screen visa applicants for antisemitic social media posts

‘There is no room in the United States for the rest of the world’s terrorist sympathisers’ stated the US Department of Homeland Security

1 min read

April 10, 2025 12:20

The Department of Homeland Security, headed by Kirsti Noem, is set to begin screening visa applicants' social media activity for historical antisemitism (Image: US DHS)

Jewish books

The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz review: ‘they played for their lives’

This thoroughly researched book explains why a place in the death camp’s only women’s orchestra was sought after, and the moral dilemmas that came with it

2 min read

April 10, 2025 11:51

Anne Sebba's new book and images of some of the orchestra members

US Politics

Mike Huckabee confirmed as US ambassador to Israel

The former Arkansas governor has been hailed among Republicans for his vocal support of the Jewish state but critics have raised concern about his previous comments regarding the West Bank

1 min read

April 10, 2025 11:50

Mike Huckabee has been confirmed by the Senate as Washington's new ambassador to Israel (Image: Getty)

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