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Akiva Red hotshots edge it in a tight Y4 tournament final

Akiva are the latest school to be celebrating winning a Maccabi GB’s Inter-School Sports tournament as they won the Year 4 Girls football event.

1 min read

February 19, 2025 09:42

Akiva Red won the Maccabi GB Year 4 Girls football tournament.

A blasphemy law by the back door is bad news for all of us

Burning sacred texts is a horrible act, but should it be against the law, however offensive?

3 min read

February 19, 2025 09:22

Counter-demonstrators and police officers are seen at the Gustav Adolfs Torg square in Malmo, Sweden, on May 3, 2024, on the occasion of a public gathering where the organizers intend to burn a Koran one day before the start of the Eurovision Song Contest in the Swedish city. (Photo by Johan Nilsson/TT / TT News Agency / AFP) / Sweden OUT (Photo by JOHAN NILSSON/TT/TT News Agency/AFP via Getty Images)

Charedi

‘It could be a civil war’: can Israel persuade the Charedim to enlist?

A long-standing internal conflict over military exemption for the strictly Orthodox has reached breaking point

7 min read

February 19, 2025 09:22

Strictly Orthodox Jews protest against the recruitment of Charedim to the IDF, in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Mea Shearim, February 3, 2025. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90

Maccabi GB

The joy of six! Calcio head to semis thanks to HMH B rout

Millbrook Park Calcio kept alive their hopes of winning silverware this season as they emphatically booked their place into the last four of the David Wolff Division One cup, after thumping HMH B 6-0 on Sunday morning.ed.

3 min read

February 19, 2025 09:20

HMH B's Daniel Slavid (blue) clears the ball under pressure from Millbrook Park Calcio's Eddie Lisberg. Picture Credit: Georgia Rosenberg.

Put away your egos, we Jews need to work together

We can be proud of our communal bodies – but why is it so hard sometimes to co-operate?

2 min read

February 19, 2025 09:20

We're more effective when we work together: the CAA organised march against antisemitism, in November 2023 was backed by the whole community

USA

Meet the sex therapist rabbi who heals Jews, Christians and Muslims alike

Dr Caleb Jacobson is a specialist in the sexual healing of Abrahamic faiths

6 min read

February 19, 2025 09:18

Meet the sex therapist rabbi who heals Jews, Christians and Muslims alike

Swiss Cottage

Jewish residents call for an end to weekly ‘intimidating’ Swiss Cottage protests

The JC has seen evidence of at least 60 alleged criminal offences at the demonstrations, including assault and expressions of support for Hamas

7 min read

February 19, 2025 09:14

My dream of peace for Jews and Arabs in the Middle East

My emotions go back and forth, but I dare to hope for a better future

3 min read

February 19, 2025 09:12

Israeli and Palestinian youths from the Gush Shalom (coalition for peace) demonstrate at the northern entrance of Jerusalem on June 11, 1994, for a peace solution without the Jewish settlements and for "Jerusalem a capital for two states". (Photo by Yoav LEMMER / AFP) (Photo by YOAV LEMMER/AFP via Getty Images)

The weekly protests remind everyone why a Jewish state is necessary

Since October 7, we’ve been reminded that Israeli is a haven from antisemitism elsewhere

7 min read

February 19, 2025 09:08

Protester in Whitehall in central London at a National demonstration for Palestine (Photo by BENJAMIN CREMEL/AFP via Getty Images)

It’s wrong to say Holocaust Memorial Day has been diluted. We must back it

Some say that including other genocides in the annual event diminishes its message. That’s nonsense.

3 min read

February 19, 2025 09:01

Britain's King Charles III lays a candle during commemorations at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland to mark 80 years since the liberation of the concentration camp on during commemorations on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau by the Red Army, in Oswiecim, Poland on January 27, 2025. (Photo by Aaron Chown / POOL / AFP) (Photo by AARON CHOWN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Jewish schools

After decades of growth, pupil numbers fall at UK Jewish schools

For the first time in nearly 30 years, there were fewer Jewish children in Jewish schools than the year before

2 min read

February 19, 2025 08:00

Front cover of JPR report into Jewish school numbers

Hostages

JNF UK welcomes home freed hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen

‘I can’t find the words to describe what it felt like to hug him again’

4 min read

February 19, 2025 07:45

Sagui with young volunteers at a JNF UK project before he was taken hostage (Photo: JNF UK)

Film

I’m Still Here review: ‘it feels timely’

As we enter an era of strong-men politics, this Brazilian film is a reminder of the price they exact

1 min read

February 18, 2025 18:36

Matriarch: Fernanda Torres as Eunice, the mother of the Paiva family

Theatre

Richard II review: ‘has lessons for Trump’

The American President, not known for his appreciation of Shakespeare, won’t watch this, but he should

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February 18, 2025 18:15

Right royal: Jonathan Bailey as King Richard Photo: Manuel Harlan

Israel

BBC journalist who gushed over Holocaust revisionist is nominated for British Council award

Layla Bashar Al-Kloub has previously been criticised by Jewish peers about media bias against the Jewish state

3 min read

February 18, 2025 16:54

BBC Arabic journalist Layla Bashar Al-Kloub, nominated for a British Council award, has previously condemned the 'Zionist entity'

Refugees

UK’s top judge attacks Starmer and Badenoch for ‘unacceptable criticism’ of Gaza refugee decision

‘The independence of the judiciary should be protected and respected,’ said Baroness Carr

2 min read

February 18, 2025 16:31

Lady Chief Justice Carr at the State Opening of Parliament (Image: Getty).

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