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Charedi

School report: compromise over yeshivah regulation remains far-off

Protests continue as proposals to regulate yeshivot advance in Parliament

2 min read

March 26, 2025 17:13

Charedi protesters gather in Westminster to oppose the regulation of yeshivot

Jewish mothers

Bereaved mothers of Israeli soldiers find love and respite in London

A dozen Israeli mothers visited the UK last week as part of a healing trip arranged by the OneFamily Fund and Gift

4 min read

March 26, 2025 16:55

A group of bereaved mothers came over from Israel for respite in London (Photo: Gary Manhine)

Norwood

The benefit cuts risk further marginalising the most vulnerable

Some people will always struggle to find paid employment

2 min read

March 26, 2025 16:47

UK Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall has announced disability benefit cuts, which have not been well received by a number of Jewish charities (Photo: Getty Images)

Holocaust

When my father wrote the text for Leonard Bernstein’s Kaddish, he saw it all coming

The West Side Story composer asked Holocaust survivor Samuel Pisar to write the text

3 min read

March 26, 2025 16:13

Bernstein’s “Kaddish” Symphony, 01/29/2025

Gal Gadot

Gal Gadot’s security enhanced after death threats

The Israeli actress received death threats after her Snow White co-star Rachel Zegler shared a pro-Palestinian message on social media.

1 min read

March 26, 2025 14:07

Gal Gadot attends her Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Ceremony in Hollywood, California (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Disney)

Theatre

Dear England review: ‘permission to be patriotic’

How good to able to sit in a theatre and with some justification, rather than deluded hope, feel the unashamed urge to cry ‘Come on England’

2 min read

March 26, 2025 13:32

Defying expectations: the cast of Dear England, with Gwilym Lee as Gareth Southgate (light sleeves) on stage at the National Theatre Photo: Marc Brenner

Religion

How Israelis turned to God after the horrors of October 7

One rabbi labelled the increasingly prominent trend away from secularism as a ‘Jewish awakening’

6 min read

March 26, 2025 13:22

An increasing number of October 7 survivors are turning to religion as they reckon with their trauma (Image: Getty)

Our October 7 report confronts the instant atrocity denial that erupted

More UK citizens were killed during Hamas’ massacre than in any global terror attack since 9/11

5 min read

March 26, 2025 13:18

The site of the Nova music festival massacre (Getty)

All of Christianity must wake up to Luther’s legacy of hate

Luther was far from unique in his Christian antisemitism, but the violence and obscenity of his words are extraordinary

3 min read

March 26, 2025 13:17

BERLIN, GERMANY - MAY 22: People walk past a billboard that shows 16th-century religious reformer Martin Luther ahead of the Protestant Church Congress on May 22, 2017 in Berlin, Germany. Up to 200,000 faithful are expected to attend the five-day congress in Berlin and Wittenberg that begins Wednesday and this year is celebrating the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Obituary

Britain’s most successful shipwreck explorer Rex Cowan dies age 97

A former lawyer who hailed from a Jewish family of Eastern European origin and grew up in north London

3 min read

March 26, 2025 13:12

Rex Braham Cowan passed away on earlier this month, at the age of 97 (Image: IMASS)

Hamas

Former hostage reveals sexual assault in Gaza

Ilana Gritzewsky recounted details of her captivity to the New York Times

1 min read

March 26, 2025 13:02

Ilana Gritzewsky, one of 105 Israeli hostages released during a one-week truce in November 2023, speaks during an anti-government protest calling for action to secure the release of Israelis held hostage since October 2023, in front of the Israeli defence ministry, in Tel Aviv on March 11, 2025. (Photo by Jack GUEZ / AFP) (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel’s internal fractures are a gift to its enemies

If we allow internal politics to once again fracture the country, then we risk losing not just the war, but the very soul of the state

3 min read

March 26, 2025 12:56

Protesters hold signs and posters of hostages held in the Gaza Strip in Tel Aviv (Getty)

Books

My novel shows that Jews and Scots have more in common than you may think

Jenni Daiches’s family saga is on the longlist for the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction

5 min read

March 26, 2025 12:53

Displacement theme: Jenni Daiches and her new book

Israel

Israeli court blocks PA funding in unprecedented move

The ruling came as the result of a landmark lawsuit filed by a British rabbi who lost his wife and children in a terror attack

2 min read

March 26, 2025 12:34

An Israeli court has issued an unprecedented injunction freezing funding from Israel to Mahmoud Abbas' Palestinian Authority (Image: Getty)

Inviting a denier of genocide to an antisemitism conference brings shame on Israel

The Chief Rabbi pulled out of the conference over concerns about other guests

3 min read

March 26, 2025 12:32

Bosnian Muslim survivor of the Srebrenica 1995 genocide, walks among headstones as she visits graves of her relatives at the memorial cemetery (Getty)

Don’t look to Chuck Schumer for lessons on fighting hate

The Democrat senator is scared of his own party

3 min read

March 26, 2025 12:27

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (Getty)

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