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Israel

Netanyahu heads to DC for meeting with Trump

The two leaders will likely discuss the Gaza ceasefire and strategies to counter Iran’s influence in the region

4 min read

February 2, 2025 10:12

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boards a plane for a visit to Washington, where he is scheduled to meet with US President Donald Trump (Image: Avi Ohayon/GPO).

Hostages

Yarden Bibas was ‘beaten and held in cages’ by Hamas terrorists

Reports say that he and fellow hostages were frequently given empty promises by Hamas that they would be released

3 min read

February 2, 2025 09:16

Yarden Bibas in a carefully orchestrated release by Hamas. His wife and young sons remain in Gaza (Image: Getty)

Babka recipe

Rich chocolate and orange babka

Made with loads of orange zest, mixed spice and chocolate

February 1, 2025 18:52

Hostages

Update: Hostage releases completed as Keith Siegel freed in Gaza City

Siegel, as well as Ofer Kalderon and Yarden Bibas, was forced to participate in another sick ceremony before being handed over to the Red Cross

1 min read

February 1, 2025 08:20

Keith Siegel's release means all three Israeli hostages expected today have now been freed (Image: Getty)

Fire

Major fire breaks out at Salford Orthodox synagogue

Emergency services tackle blaze at Greater Manchester Orthodox synagogue

1 min read

January 31, 2025 21:54

A fire tore through Satmar V'Yoel Moshe Orthodox synagogue in Salford, Greater Manchester, on Friday evening (Photo: X)

Showbiz

Oscar nods bring some good news, but where are all the stars’ yellow ribbons?

It’s good that Jewish stories are being given a hearing, but when it comes to showing solidarity with the hostages why are so few Jewish actors prepared to stand up and be counted?

2 min read

January 31, 2025 17:38

Timothée Chalamet is in line for an award for his portrayal of Bob Dylan in the biopic A Complete Unknown Photo: Getty

Israel

Who are the Palestinian prisoners that were released on Thursday?

Inmates serving life sentences for terror offences were freed from the Ofer Prison near Ramallah and the Ktzi’ot Prison in southern Israel

4 min read

January 31, 2025 16:50

Former Palestinian prisoner Zakaria Zubeidi, 49, flashes victory signs as he is lifted by the crowd in Ramallah (Getty Images)

Sport

UFC fighter called Hitler ‘a good guy’ who ‘fought greedy Jews’

Bryce Mitchell said the Nazi leader was attempting to ‘purify’ Germany and claimed Jews were turning women and children ‘into gays’

2 min read

January 31, 2025 16:17

MMA fighter Bryce Mitchell called Hitler a 'good guy' who fought 'greedy Jews' in a recent podcast appearance (Image: Getty)

Leicester

Walk-out at Leicester Holocaust Memorial Day after speaker accuses Israel of genocide

High school student drew parallels between Gaza and Holocaust at Leicester HMD event

1 min read

January 31, 2025 14:08

The grandson of Holocaust survivors was devasted when a student speaker at an HMD event in Leicester accused Israel of "genocide" in Gaza (Photo: Getty)

Netflix

These are the best Jew-ish shows to binge on Netflix this year

To save you the work, we’ve sniffed out the Jewish creatives behind the platform’s most exciting new shows

4 min read

January 31, 2025 13:40

Zero Day. (L to R) McKinley Belcher III as Carl Otieno, Mozhan Navabi as Melissa Kornblau, Robert De Niro as George Mullen, Jesse Plemons as Roger Carlson and Connie Britton as Valerie Whitesell. (Photo: Netflix)

Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action review: ‘little comfort for those whose lives were marred’

This Netflix docuseries offers a depressing moral quandary but ultimately rings hollow

2 min read

January 31, 2025 13:34

Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera Action is another Netflix docuseries, this time sensationalising the already sensational story of the Jerry Springer Show. (Photo: Getty)

Emily Damari

Freed British hostage Emily Damari says she was held in Unrwa facilities

British-Israeli hostage told Keir Starmer that she was kept in UN-funded location

1 min read

January 31, 2025 13:19

Released hostage Emily Damari and her mother Mandy spoke to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer on Friday morning (Photo: Emily Cohen)

October 7

What would Rabbi Sacks have said after October 7?

New podcast will explore his teachings to gauge how he might have reacted

1 min read

January 31, 2025 13:07

Podcast host: Dr Tanya White (tanyawhite.org)

PRO-PALESTINE DEMONSTRATIONS

Pro-Palestine marchers ‘denied civil liberties’ over synagogue protest ban, MPs claims

The letter was signed by Labour MPs including Andy McDonald and Clive Lewis, who have courted controversy with their past comments on Israel

2 min read

January 31, 2025 12:15

MPs have accused police of infringing on the 'civil liberties' of pro-Palestine protestors over a march that saw 77 people arrested (Image: Getty)

Limmud

Limmud launches fund to support innovation

Grants of £2,000 will be available to encourage new projects

1 min read

January 31, 2025 12:15

Last summer's People of the Body Exhibition (photo: Limmud)

Houses of Parliament

Holocaust education exhibit denied space in Parliament for being ‘too political’

The National Holocaust Museum was offered space in a separate building in Westiminster

3 min read

January 31, 2025 12:00

Marc Cave, director of National Holocaust Museum, poses in the museum's new international touring exhibition 'The Vicious Circle'. (Photo: David Parry)

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